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Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 1.24
the Confederate exchequer, no more devoted patriot than Mr. Hunter could have been found in all the limits of our new republic. He soon became President pro lem. of the Confederate Senate, and all through the disheartening struggle gave his best efforts to the success of our doomed cause. Among his last acts in its behalf was his visit to Hampton Roads as one of the commissioners to negotiate for peace between the North and the South. His report of that memorable conference with Mr. Lincoln is an accurate record of what transpired, and is a valuable contribution to history. Of his life after the war I need not speak. Imprisoned as he was by Federal tyranny, insulted by a barbarous enemy with a cruelty which was equalled only by fiendish ingenuity, he was released from captivity only to return to Font Hill to find his home devastated by their deeper malignity. Yet, in the closing years of his well-spent life, he still cherished the hope of better days for the republi
N. P. Banks (search for this): chapter 1.24
gton [printed in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXV, pp. 193-205], now on file among the archives of your Honor's court, the learned author says of him: His integrity, purity and knowledge of affairs gave him an almost absolute veto on everything corrupt, base or dangerous in fiscal legislation. * * *He shaped and carried through the Compromise Tariff bill of 1857, a measure supported not only by Democrats, but by many prominent Republicans-Win. H. Seward, Henry Wilson, N. P. Banks, Solomon P. Chase, and others. They were content to follow a Virginian of the Virginians. The establishment of the Court of Claims at Washington and the life tenure of its judges was the work of the statesman of Essex. The first Civil Service law, and one which puts to shame the abortive effort at reform now existing, was the work of R. M. T. Hunter. He put an end, or showed the way to end, all controversy over the money question, and the recent unhappy warfare over the coinage
T. R. B. Wright (search for this): chapter 1.24
Address of Hon. T. S. Garnett Upon presenting the portrait of Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, To the circuit Court of Essex county, at Tappahannock, Va., June 20, 1898. Judge Wright, and Ladies and Gentlemen: In response to your kind invitation, I am here to present to the Circuit Court of Essex county, the portrait of the Honorable Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter. Before venturing upon the performance of this honorable duty, I cannot refrain from expressing my gratitude to you for the great and good work you have so wisely conceived and so devotedly executed throughout your judicial circuit, in rescuing from dull forgetfulness the memories of the past, and from oblivion the names and features of so many of our Tidewater Virginians who made that past forever memorable. All honor to you, sir, for this noble work, and Heaven's blessings upon your unselfish and patriotic labors. This portrait of Mr. Hunter, the gift of his great-niece, is a faithful likeness of that great
W. G. McDowell (search for this): chapter 1.24
ties of mind and character, he was the peer of any, without the eccentricities of genius which marred so many of the worthies of that day. But time would fail me to depict in detail his varied labors in the achievement of his fame. When that fame was at its zenith, and in the very height of useful promise, at the age of 52 years, he bade farewell to all the scenes of his greatness and followed his native State into her gallant but desperate struggle for independence. On the day when McDowell's defeated and demoralized host was driven back upon Washington from the plains of Manassas, July 21, 1861, Mr. Hunter became Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Davis. It is not generally known, though I believe it to be true, that the original plan of those who founded the Confederate government at Montgomery, Ala., was to make Mr. Hunter President of the Confederacy, and Jefferson Davis General-in-Chief of its armies in the field. Whether such a course would have won succe
Hunter President (search for this): chapter 1.24
the scenes of his greatness and followed his native State into her gallant but desperate struggle for independence. On the day when McDowell's defeated and demoralized host was driven back upon Washington from the plains of Manassas, July 21, 1861, Mr. Hunter became Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Davis. It is not generally known, though I believe it to be true, that the original plan of those who founded the Confederate government at Montgomery, Ala., was to make Mr. Hunter President of the Confederacy, and Jefferson Davis General-in-Chief of its armies in the field. Whether such a course would have won success or not may be questioned, but certain it is that no wiser counsellor, no better financier in the desperate straits of the Confederate exchequer, no more devoted patriot than Mr. Hunter could have been found in all the limits of our new republic. He soon became President pro lem. of the Confederate Senate, and all through the disheartening struggle gave
Thomas Jefferson (search for this): chapter 1.24
upon to name a document which best expounds the true principles of finance and statesmanship on this difficult subject, and in a perfectly unanswerable manner, free from ill-temper or bias, and full of wise prescience and overwhelming argument, I should name the report made by Robt. M. T. Hunter in March, 1852, to the United States Senate, which accompanied the bill proposed by him to regulate the coinage of gold and silver. It is not mere eulogy to say that, Since the passing away of Jefferson, Madison, Marshall and Monroe, hardly any Virginian has borne so influential a part in political affairs as R. M. T. Hunter. In great qualities of mind and character, he was the peer of any, without the eccentricities of genius which marred so many of the worthies of that day. But time would fail me to depict in detail his varied labors in the achievement of his fame. When that fame was at its zenith, and in the very height of useful promise, at the age of 52 years, he bade farewel
James Madison (search for this): chapter 1.24
ame a document which best expounds the true principles of finance and statesmanship on this difficult subject, and in a perfectly unanswerable manner, free from ill-temper or bias, and full of wise prescience and overwhelming argument, I should name the report made by Robt. M. T. Hunter in March, 1852, to the United States Senate, which accompanied the bill proposed by him to regulate the coinage of gold and silver. It is not mere eulogy to say that, Since the passing away of Jefferson, Madison, Marshall and Monroe, hardly any Virginian has borne so influential a part in political affairs as R. M. T. Hunter. In great qualities of mind and character, he was the peer of any, without the eccentricities of genius which marred so many of the worthies of that day. But time would fail me to depict in detail his varied labors in the achievement of his fame. When that fame was at its zenith, and in the very height of useful promise, at the age of 52 years, he bade farewell to all t
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 1.24
r gallant but desperate struggle for independence. On the day when McDowell's defeated and demoralized host was driven back upon Washington from the plains of Manassas, July 21, 1861, Mr. Hunter became Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Davis. It is not generally known, though I believe it to be true, that the original plan of those who founded the Confederate government at Montgomery, Ala., was to make Mr. Hunter President of the Confederacy, and Jefferson Davis General-in-ChJefferson Davis General-in-Chief of its armies in the field. Whether such a course would have won success or not may be questioned, but certain it is that no wiser counsellor, no better financier in the desperate straits of the Confederate exchequer, no more devoted patriot than Mr. Hunter could have been found in all the limits of our new republic. He soon became President pro lem. of the Confederate Senate, and all through the disheartening struggle gave his best efforts to the success of our doomed cause. Among h
Solomon P. Chase (search for this): chapter 1.24
n the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXV, pp. 193-205], now on file among the archives of your Honor's court, the learned author says of him: His integrity, purity and knowledge of affairs gave him an almost absolute veto on everything corrupt, base or dangerous in fiscal legislation. * * *He shaped and carried through the Compromise Tariff bill of 1857, a measure supported not only by Democrats, but by many prominent Republicans-Win. H. Seward, Henry Wilson, N. P. Banks, Solomon P. Chase, and others. They were content to follow a Virginian of the Virginians. The establishment of the Court of Claims at Washington and the life tenure of its judges was the work of the statesman of Essex. The first Civil Service law, and one which puts to shame the abortive effort at reform now existing, was the work of R. M. T. Hunter. He put an end, or showed the way to end, all controversy over the money question, and the recent unhappy warfare over the coinage of gold and silv
Henry Wilson (search for this): chapter 1.24
. L. Q. Washington [printed in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXV, pp. 193-205], now on file among the archives of your Honor's court, the learned author says of him: His integrity, purity and knowledge of affairs gave him an almost absolute veto on everything corrupt, base or dangerous in fiscal legislation. * * *He shaped and carried through the Compromise Tariff bill of 1857, a measure supported not only by Democrats, but by many prominent Republicans-Win. H. Seward, Henry Wilson, N. P. Banks, Solomon P. Chase, and others. They were content to follow a Virginian of the Virginians. The establishment of the Court of Claims at Washington and the life tenure of its judges was the work of the statesman of Essex. The first Civil Service law, and one which puts to shame the abortive effort at reform now existing, was the work of R. M. T. Hunter. He put an end, or showed the way to end, all controversy over the money question, and the recent unhappy warfare over
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