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 . Polk, also marked this transition. Mr. Bell wasopposed to Van Buren in his policy with regard toremoval from office, strongly disapproving of suchremoval for merely politica
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 . Polk, also marked this transition. Mr. Bell wasopposed to Van Buren in his policy with regard toremoval from office, strongly disapproving of suchremoval for merely political reasons. In 1835, therupture between Bell and President Jackson culmi-nated, yet Mr. Bell was re-elected to congress by asheavy a vote as ever. In regard to the abolition ofslavery in the district of Columbia he was in favorof such a movement, and he opposed the gag lawin 1838. Throughout his course he was supportedby his constituents. In 1841 Mr. Bell went into thecabinet of Gen. Harrison as secretary of war, butresigned in the autumn of that year. The follow-ing Tennessee legislature offered him the U. S. sen-atorship, but this he declined in favor of one whohe thought better deserved it at the hands of hisparty, and during the next six years he was not inpolitics. In 1847, at the urgent request of citizensof his county, he entered the state senate, and dur-ing the same year, a vacancy having occurred in. the U. S. senate, he was elected to the oflJce, andin 1853 was re-elected for the term which expiredMarch 4, 1859. Mr. Bell was a consistent oppon-ent of annexation. He opposed the Kansas-Ne-braska bill in 1854, and also the bill which wouldadmit Kansas under the Lecompton was in favor of the compromise measures of1850. and fought the repeal of those of this brought him into conflict more partic-ularly with Senator Douglas, whose grand territorialviews he handled without gloves. In the great Le-compton debate of March, 1858, Senator Bell madea
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