. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . f resolutions wherebv the portraitof i\braham Lincoln, which now hangs in the AssemblyChamber at Trenton, became the property of the State. Itwas purchased, and he was one of the committee that se-cured it. On the ratification of the constitutional amend-ntcnt prohibiting slavery j\lr. More delivered an able andeloquent address in the Assembly in reply to remarks ofLeon Alibett, afterward Governor of the State, and otherDemocrats, who were opposing the adoption of this impor-tant measure. Rober
. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . f resolutions wherebv the portraitof i\braham Lincoln, which now hangs in the AssemblyChamber at Trenton, became the property of the State. Itwas purchased, and he was one of the committee that se-cured it. On the ratification of the constitutional amend-ntcnt prohibiting slavery j\lr. More delivered an able andeloquent address in the Assembly in reply to remarks ofLeon Alibett, afterward Governor of the State, and otherDemocrats, who were opposing the adoption of this impor-tant measure. Robert More came of distinguished ancestry. Hisgrandfather, John T. More, was a captain in the Army ofthe American Revolution and fought in the battle of RedP>ank. Flis lirother. Captain Enoch More ran a Governmenttransport during the Civil War, and carried the private dis-patches of President Lincoln. Captain More brought Jef-ferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and AlexanderH. Stevens, Vice President, together with the ConfederateCabinet to Fortress Monroe on his transport after their (H). CUMBERLAND COUNTY ,.-, Hon. Providence Ludlam, First Republican SenatorHon. Elwell Nichols Hon. Robert More First Republican Members of AssemblyHon. Philip Souder, First Republican Assembly Candidate (,) l6 niSIdKU DAYS capture at the close of the war. This same brother alsoserved under Colonel John C. iM-emont during his journey-ings through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and acrossthe continent in the 5os. His great ancestor John More,came to tnis country with Fenwicks colony from Englandand the loo- house in which he lived with his family is shownin a wood cut in Thomas Shourds History of Lord Fen-wick and the families which accompanied him to America. From the small beginning in 55 he lived to see themagnificent results of the great Republican policy, whichemancipated the slave, restored the Union, and made ofthe United States of America the most enlightened a
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