Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . whenhe was chosen Speaker of the House. In i860, agedand infirm, he attended the National DemocraticConvention at Charleston, S. C , as an anti-DouglasDelegate, where he received more attention from Delegates than any other member. Hesupixjrted Breckenridge for the Presidency. Afterthe October elections foreshadowed the success ofLincoln, he published an address urging the Demo-crats to rally to the support of Douglas. Immedi-ately preceding and during the late war, his corre-spondence evinced a clear sympathy for the
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . whenhe was chosen Speaker of the House. In i860, agedand infirm, he attended the National DemocraticConvention at Charleston, S. C , as an anti-DouglasDelegate, where he received more attention from Delegates than any other member. Hesupixjrted Breckenridge for the Presidency. Afterthe October elections foreshadowed the success ofLincoln, he published an address urging the Demo-crats to rally to the support of Douglas. Immedi-ately preceding and during the late war, his corre-spondence evinced a clear sympathy for the Southernsecession, and about the first of March, i86r, heurged upon the Buchanan officials the seizure of thetreasure and arms in the custom-house and arsenalat St. Louis. Mr. Reynolds was a rather talkativeman, and apt in all the Western phrases and catch-words that ever gained currency, besides many cun-ning and odd ones of his own manufacture. He was married twice, but had no children. Hedied in Belleville, in May, 1865, just after the closeof the war. !|.
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