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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of the House during the great contest of the Thirty-sixth Congress, which terminated in the election of Mr. Pennington, of New Jersey. He is but thirty-eight years of age, being the youngest man in the Senate, except Harding, of Oregon. Henry Wilson keeps up a continual restless, unsettled sort of motion in and out of his seat, to and from the House chamber. Since anti-slavery sentiments have become popular, and Wilson is relieved from the necessity of continual outcry and exertion againWilson is relieved from the necessity of continual outcry and exertion against "the peculiar institution," he is becoming stout and portly. This may be one of the benefits of "the anti-slavery legislation of Congress." Talking to him just now is his colleague in the lower House, George S. Boutwell, former Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He is a tall, thin, dark-haired, dark-skinned man, said to be one of the hardest workers and profoundest thinkers in Congress.--There, too, is Hale, of New Hampshire, one of the old original abolitionists, the candidate of that organ