. Men of our day, or, Biographical sketches of patriots, orators, statesmen, generals, reformers, financiers and merchants, now on the stage of action : including those who in military, political, business and social life, are the prominent leaders of the time in this country . n the Penobscot, he cultivates * The southern pohtical speakers and leaders in the presidential cam-paign of 1860. circulated the report widely throiaghout the South, and it•was extensively credited there, that Mr. Hamlin was a mulatto, and that theEepul>licans had nominated him for the purpose of inciting the negroe
. Men of our day, or, Biographical sketches of patriots, orators, statesmen, generals, reformers, financiers and merchants, now on the stage of action : including those who in military, political, business and social life, are the prominent leaders of the time in this country . n the Penobscot, he cultivates * The southern pohtical speakers and leaders in the presidential cam-paign of 1860. circulated the report widely throiaghout the South, and it•was extensively credited there, that Mr. Hamlin was a mulatto, and that theEepul>licans had nominated him for the purpose of inciting the negroes torise in rebellion against their masters. Mr. Hamlins dark complexion wasthe only thing which gave the slightest plausibility to this story. 232 MEX OF OUR DAY. Ills small farm witli bis own hands, laboring on it every summer,with all tlie regularity and vigor of his youthful days. In hismoral character, Mr. Hamlin is wholly without reproach, a manof pure and Christian life, and in his domestic relations, he iamost devoted and afiectionate. No man is more thoroughlyfaithful to his friends than he, and none more highly prizes atrue friend. His native State honors him, and with reason, forhe is one of her best products, a manly, noble man in all therelations of ENaKAVKD by * HON. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WADE, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. -♦—»»^-^»-.» IT would be hard to find a better illustration of the facilitywith which, under Eepublican institutions, a man ofgenius and integrity may rise from obscurity andhumble life to the most exalted station, than is affordedin the history of Hon. Benjamin F. Wade. He has not, it istrue, like his predecessor, filled every office, from alderman ofa small village to President of the United States, but he hasrisen from an humble though honorable and honest condition, tothe highest positions in the gift of the people, and through all,has maintained himself with dignity, propriety, and honor, andwith a re
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