The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . erent. I have the free entree there & am alwayspresent when it is in session.^ While he was in Washington the people of Pitts-burgh, on February 27th, were perfecting the organiza-tion of a Historical Society, and made Mr. Williams amember of its governing council. The officers were:president, Benj. Bakewell; vice-president, W. W. Fet-terman; treasurer, John Harper; secretary, WilsonMcCandless; librarian, Charles H. Kay, and council,Richard Biddle, Dr. Wm. Addison, M
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . erent. I have the free entree there & am alwayspresent when it is in session.^ While he was in Washington the people of Pitts-burgh, on February 27th, were perfecting the organiza-tion of a Historical Society, and made Mr. Williams amember of its governing council. The officers were:president, Benj. Bakewell; vice-president, W. W. Fet-terman; treasurer, John Harper; secretary, WilsonMcCandless; librarian, Charles H. Kay, and council,Richard Biddle, Dr. Wm. Addison, M. B. Miltenberger,George Darsie, George W. Jackson, Robert S. Simpson 1 Peleg Sprague was a native of Massachusetts, born in 1793, a graduate ofHarvard College and Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar atAugusta, Maine, in 1815. He was in the State Legislature and in Congress asa Whig, and from 1829 to 1835 was a Senator from that State. He was after-ward an eminent Boston lawyer. He survived all the members of thisfamous Senate—and had a great reputation as a debater. 2 Letters among the Williams WILLIAM Halftone of a painting by Bowman, about 1830, in possession of Miss Henrietta W. Sanders, Philadelphia PITTSBURGH AND POLITICS 59 and Thomas Williams.^ Mr. Williams was but twenty-eight years of age at this time. He left Washington on March 3d and the next daywas at Philadelphia. We walked to the State Houseyard, he writes on the 4th to his wife, to attend aJackson meeting, which was sufficiently small to enableus to hear speeches from George M. Dallas & RichardRush, & many a fierce gesture at the Marble Palace inChestnut By the 6th they were in Pittsburgh,and on that afternoon a great meeting at the court househeard their long and ably written report, which occupiednearly three columns. The President argued his casehotly. T never will return the deposits to the Bank ofthe United States—to a bank having the whole of hercapital—thirty-fi
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