The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s conse-quences resulting from the contested election ofHayes and Tilden. He also, until his death, took anactive interest in all important measures affectingthe municipality of Ne
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s conse-quences resulting from the contested election ofHayes and Tilden. He also, until his death, took anactive interest in all important measures affectingthe municipality of New York. It can be truthfullyclaimed for Mr. Weed that he was an honest poli-tician. For his faithful service of more than sixtyyears to his party and his country he never receiveda dollar nor any other recognition except, it may be,the contract for state printing which, in 1839, wasawarded to the printing house of Weed & Parsons,of which, until his death, he was a member. Butthe contract did not continue long and the profitsupon it were strictly legitimate, and of these hisportion was but a moiety. Like his democraticfriend, Jeremiah G. Black, he could hold out hishands and say, They are clean—they have neverheld a bribe. He was careless of money and, en-grossed with larger things, his mind could not benarrowed down to mere accumulation. Once, in hisold age, he said to the writer of this sketch: I have. not sought to be rich ; I have had opportunitiesenough, but it is a low pursuit, and I have been toobusy. I have had no merely personal ambition. Ihave wanted to be influential, but it was in order tohelp the state, to improve the quahty of its publicservants and to serve the country to the extent ofany one mans ability. His personal character waswithout stain. In a corrupt time he was never handled a dishonest dollar. He was liberaland bountiful far beyond his means, and quicklymoved by any appeal to his sympathies. He hadwarm attachments, loving his friends wit
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