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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ansion. Trained and formed under these anspices, he proved himself equal to all the various and arduous posts of public duty to which he was called by the favor and confidence of his countrymen. In the highest of them all, he gave an honorable proof of the elevation and magnanimity of his character by bringing into the leading Executive Departments the most towering talents of the country, to aid him in the administration of the Government. The selection of such men as Web er Calhoun, Legare, Upshur, and Spencer, proved how far he was above the operation of any unworthy sentiment of jealousy, or fear of being overshadowad in the public estimation by his official advisers; while his personal management of several of the most delicate questions of his administration — I refer more particularly to his broad and comprehensive treatment of the question of the anexation of Texas, and the firmness with which he upheld the cause of constitutional, republican government in Rhode Island a