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 . was notconsidered an eloquent orator, but his great powerlay in the fact that he could say more than any oneelse in a few words. During the, last yearsiof Daniel ?Webster, that gre
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 . was notconsidered an eloquent orator, but his great powerlay in the fact that he could say more than any oneelse in a few words. During the, last yearsiof Daniel ?Webster, that great statesman and ;advocate, fre-quently sought the aid of Mr. Ewing in iweightycases, and during the most of Ewings later profes-sional life his business was chiefly before the supremecourt at Washington. At th«:time of Swings deathJames G. Blaine wrote of him as follows: He wasa grand and massive man, almost without no little familiarity and association with theleading men of the day, I can truly say that I nevermet with one who impressed me so Ewing had four sons, Hugh, Philemon,Thomasand Charles. Mr. Ewing died in Lancaster, Q.,Oct. 26, 1871. BELL, John, secretary of war, and candidatefor the presidency (1860), was bom near Nashville,Tenn., Feb. 15, 1797. His parents were in moder-ate circumstances, but they were able to send himto Cumberland College, now Nashville 40 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA He was graduated from that institution in 1814, be-gan the study of law, and when only nineteen yearsof age was admitted to the bar, and settled at Frank-lin, Tenn. He at once became popular among thepeople where he lived, politics,his influence was recognized at a time of life when themajority of young men are about commencing a col-lege course. In 1817, when he was only twenty yearsold, he became a state senator. He was wiseenough,however, to discover that this compliment shouldnot be taken as a just judgment of his intellec
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