The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . y at Wilsons or here for the purpose of exercises insinging. They call them anxious meetings & theygenerally manage to get two or three of the Loco Focomembers to sing [them] over. And such singing! Ido not speak in disparagement of the music, but youwould think, if you heard them, that every peal wouldbring down the walls of the house about their ears. The Legislature adjourned on the 12th and on the14th he writes : I have been detained * * * i^i thepreparation of a
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . y at Wilsons or here for the purpose of exercises insinging. They call them anxious meetings & theygenerally manage to get two or three of the Loco Focomembers to sing [them] over. And such singing! Ido not speak in disparagement of the music, but youwould think, if you heard them, that every peal wouldbring down the walls of the house about their ears. The Legislature adjourned on the 12th and on the14th he writes : I have been detained * * * i^i thepreparation of an address to the people of Pennsylvaniaon behalf of the Harrison members of the Legislature,which I have been urged to finish before my and Mr. Stevens left together for Washington,whencehe writes on the 19th that he had heard some of thedebates in the House on the Sub-treasury Bill. Wehave, said he, better speakers in the Senate of any I have heard here, & I do assure [you] that Iwould not feel the least difficulty in addressing the Houseimmediately on the heels of any of them. He said some. THE BUCK-SHOT WAR AND HARRISON S ELECTION I39 of the Van Buren people were twitting him and askinghim to explain how so bold, aggressive and able a Stateleader as he was should not have been sent to Congressby his district. The matter was of no moment to and he was yet to find his greatest usefulness inhis place in the Senate, where many believed his serviceswere needer far more than in Congress, and where he wasto be recognized as the most able among our publicmen.^ Mr. Williams was generally recognized as one of thevery first Whig leaders in Pennsylvania, and conse-quently the country at large, and he entered with vigorinto the great Harrison-Tyler campaign which sweptPennsylvania into the Harrison ranks and landed anotherwestern hero in the White House. This result alsochanged the control in the Legislature back into Whigand anti-Mason hands, and on t
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