. History of the state of New York, political and governmental;. ning of the next Presidential and plain the sign of the times was written in1858 that the storm would break in 1861, as the greatquestion that convulsed the country imperativelydemanded a settlement at the forthcoming nationalelection. Very much depended, then, upon the choiceof the next President; and during the ensuing two yearsthat matter absorbed attention to the exclusion of almosteverything else. State issues were held in abeyance andState interests subordinated to those of the nation. The administration of Govern
. History of the state of New York, political and governmental;. ning of the next Presidential and plain the sign of the times was written in1858 that the storm would break in 1861, as the greatquestion that convulsed the country imperativelydemanded a settlement at the forthcoming nationalelection. Very much depended, then, upon the choiceof the next President; and during the ensuing two yearsthat matter absorbed attention to the exclusion of almosteverything else. State issues were held in abeyance andState interests subordinated to those of the nation. The administration of Governor Morgan began ina calm, business-like manner. The Eighty-second Leg-islature assembled on January 4, 1859, with the sameSenate as at the previous session. In the AssemblyDeWitt C. Littlejohn was made Speaker and WilliamRichardson Clerk; and among the new members wereGeorge Opdyke, of New York, and Henry W. Slo-cum, of Onondaga. The Governors message was ofmoderate length and was the practical business docu-ment that was to be expected from such a man. He 432. John Alsop King John Alsop King, 22nd governor (1857-58); born in New-York City, January 3, 1788; lawyer; member of assembly fromQueens county, 1819-1821; state senator, 1823; resigned toaccept apiioiiitnient as secretary of legation to the court of ; charge d affairs, June 15 to August 2, 1826; againelected a state legislator in 1832, 1838 and 1840; member ofcongress, 1849-51; governor, 1857-1858; delegate from NewYork to the peace conference in 1861; died at Jamaica, L. I.,July 7, 1867. I
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