Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John Forsyth or search for John Forsyth in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
er; he was brought into contact with the highest intellects of the age. In the Legislature of Virginia, he was a member of the House of Delegates with Littleton Waller Tazewell, Berjamin Watkins Leigh, Chas. Fenton Mercer, Robert Stanard, Philip Doddridge, Gen. Blackburn, and many others of the most gifted spirits of this ancient Commonwealth. In the House of Representatives of the United States, he was contemporary with Henry Clay, William Lowndes, John endolph, Henry St. George Tucker, John Forsyth, Louis McLace, and a host of other distinguished men who then illustrated the national forum. Being generally the youngest member of the body to which he belonged, and emulous of distinction, he was stimulated to the highest exertion of his powers by the living models of excellence with which he was surrounded, and his mind was thus kept in a perpetual progress of development and expansion. Trained and formed under these anspices, he proved himself equal to all the various and arduo