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familiar views, in passing through liis hands, gather such a halo of luminous illustrations that their likeness seems transformed, and we entertain doubts of their identity." In 18(J0, when secession was seriously threatened by South Carolina, Mr. Everett, against his own inclination (as he wrote to the author of this sketch), permitted his name to be used by the Constitutional-Union party as a candi- date for the vice-presidency, John Bell, of Tennes- see, being the candidate for president. They re- ceived thirty-nine electoral votes — those of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. (See Bell, John.) During the civil war Mr. Everett labored zealously in defence of the Union, but was always dis- posed to extend the hand of fra- ternal reconcil- iation toward those whom he regarded as so greatly in the wrong ; and his last piiblic serv- ice was one of humanity in be- half of south- ern sufferers by tiie conflict, at the meeting in Faneuil hall on Moiiday, 9 Jan., 1 865, for the re- lief of the peo- ple of Savan-

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return home after a day of fatiguing engage- ments, he was obliged to summon his physician, and did not again leave his house. " We all re- member him," remarks Daniel Webster, " some of us personally, myself, certainly, with great in- terest, in his deliberations in the congress of the United States, to which he brought such a degree of learning and ability and eloquence as few equalled and none surpassed. He administered, afterward, satisfactorily to his fellow-citizens, the duties of the chair of the commonwealth. He then, to the great advantage of his country, went abroad. He was deputed to represent his government at the most important court of Europe, and he carried thither many qualities, most of them essential, and all of them ornamental and useful, to fill that high sta- tion. He had education and scholarship. He had a reputation at home and abroad. More than all, he had an acquaintance with the politics of the world, with the laws of this country and of nations, and with the history and policy of the countries of Europe. And how well these qualities enabled him to reflect honor upon the literature and char- acter of his native land, not we only, but all the country and all the world, know. He lias performed this career, and yet is at such a period of life that 1 niay venture something upon the character and privilege of my countrymen when I predict that those who have known him long and know him now, those who have seen him and see him now, those who have heard him and hear him now, are very likely to think that his country has demands upon him for future efforts in its service." It is pleasing to know that the cordial relations that united the hearts of these distinguished patriots were never disturbed by misunderstanding nor chilled by estrangement. To this gratifying truth we have the following testimony, which occurs in a letter from Webster to Everett, written about three months before the decease of the former : " We now and then see stretching across the heavens a clear, blue, cerulean sky, without cloud, or mist, or haze. And such appears to me our ac- quaintance from the time when I heard you for a week recite your lessons in the little school-house in Short street, to the date hereof " [21 July. 1852J. Mr. Everett had long contemplated a work upon international law, and at the time of his death he was preparing a course of lectures on this theme, which he had "promised to deliver before the Dane law-school." But failing health, and the fa- tigue and excitement of travel arising from "much serving " in patriotic enterprises, prevented the completion of the greatly desired treatise. The ac- companying illustration is a view of Mr. Everett's birthplace in Dorchester, Mass. The house is sup- posed to have been built by Col. Robert Oliver, about 1740. — Another brother, John, b. in Dor- chester, Mass.. 23 Feb., 1801 : d. in Boston in 1826, was graduated at Harvard in 1818. At his grad- uation he delivered an oration on " Byron," and the year previous one on " The ' Poetry of the Oriental Nations " at a college exhibition. On 14 July, 1818, he addressed the senior class on the " Prosjiects of the Voung Men of America." Shortly aftei- leaving college he accompanied Presi- dent Holly to Lexington, Ky., where he became tutor in Transylvania university. While there he delivered an impromptu oration in the presence of Andrew Jackson, which was much praised. On returning to Massachusetts, Mr. Everett entered the law-school at Harvard, subsequently studied with Daniel Webster, and was called to the bar. Before completing his legal studies he visited Eu- rope, and for a brief period was connected with the Amei'ican legation at Brussels and the Plague, where his elder brother, Alexander, was charge d'aft'aires. Mr. Everett's early death cut short a career that promised to be uiuisually brilliant. He possessed great facility in extemporaneous debate, and was a leader among the young men of Boston. His poetical abilities were also considerable, as is shown by his " Ode to St. Paul's Church," and by one written for the Washington society, and sung at Concert Hall, 4 July, 1825. He is the author of articles in " The North American Review," and de- livered the oration before the Washington society on 4 July, 1824. — William, youngest son of Edward, educator, b. in Watertown, Mass., 10 Oct., 1839, was graduated at Harvard in 1859, and at Trinity col- lege, Cambridge, England, in 1863. He was tutor and assistant professor of Latin at Harvard from 1870 till 1877. receiving from that institution the degree of Ph. D. in classics in 1875. In 1878 he be- came master of Adams academy at Quincy, Mass., where he still (1887) remains. He occasionally preaches, under a license from the Boston minis- ters' association, as a strongly conservative Uni- tarian. Pie has taken an active part in different political movements since 1864, both as a Republi- can and an Independent, notably in that of 1884, when he supported the Democratic ticket. He is a pronounced civil-service and tariff reformer. Mr. Everett is the author of "On the Cam," a series of lectures on the University of Cambridge (Boston. 1865) : two books for boys, " Changing Base "(1868), and "Double Play " "(1870) ; "Hesi- one, or Europe Unchained," a poem (Boston, 1869) ; " School Sermons " (1881) ; and various pamphlets on political, literary, and religious subjects.

EVERETT, Charles Carroll, theologian, b. in Brunswick, Me., in June, 1829. He was gradu- ated at Bowdoin in 1850, studied some time in the