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 . luded, and brokedown under the burden. His resolute opposition tothe anti-slavery movement, he claimed, led to tenyears of exclusion from office and honor at that pe-riod of life w
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 . luded, and brokedown under the burden. His resolute opposition tothe anti-slavery movement, he claimed, led to tenyears of exclusion from office and honor at that pe-riod of life when honors are sweetest. In 1856 hewas declared defeated in a third congressional cam-paigi;, but succeeded toward the end of the sessionin unseating his rival. He was elected in 1858, andagain in 1860. At Cooper Institute, Nov. 3, 1860, hedeclared that he never would vote a dollar wherebyone drop of American blood should be shed in a civilwar. A speech of his at Philadelphia Feb. 20,1861,was distorted into a proposition to divide the UnitedStates into four countries. This was directly oppo-site to his professed principle and effort, which wasto maintain the Union; but how, when many of thestates had revolted, and no f orcewas allowed for theircoercion, he never made precisely clear. Believing thesubjugation of the South to be impossible, and all at-tempts toward that end iniquitous, and possessingIII.— C,£^6eM^^<^/M^^ the full courage of his convictions, he became athorn in the goyernments side. Wade denouncedhim in the senate as a destroyer of the republic, andhe replied with equal bitterness. A resolution of in-quiry as to his loyalty was moved in the house, andseven petitions for his expulsion presented; formonths he never heard an administration man ad-dress the chair without looking up to see if a resolu-tion for his censure or expulsion was about to beoffered. His activity by no means ended withhis congressional career. With a fearless devotionworthy o
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