HALE
HALE
the 29th congress with only three representa-
tives. His etforts, however, defeated the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor by a combination
of Whigs and Independent Democrats and se-
cured an opposition majority in the general court
of the state. Mr. Hale was elected to the gen-
eral court and was chosen speaker, June 3, 1846,
and on June 5, the legislature elected Anthony
Colby, the Whig candidate, governor. The same
legislature elected Mr. Hale to the U.S. senate
from March 4, 1847, and on Oct. 20, 1847, the
National Liberty party convened at Buffalo,
N.Y., nominated him for President with Leicester
King for Vice-President and he declined the nomi-
nation. He was a candidate before the Free-Soil
Democratic convention at Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 9,
1848, and received 183 votes and when Martin Van
Buren was nominated Mr. Hale gave him his
imqualified support. In the 80th congress, that
convened Dec. 6, 1847, he was the only avowed
anti-slavery advocate in the senate, being fol-
lowed, Dec. 3, 1849, by Salmon P. Chase and
William H. Seward, and on Dec. 1, 1851, by
Charles Sumner. He served in the U.S. senate
until March 4, 1853, when he was succeeded by
Charles G. Atherton, Democrat. His six j-ears'
service in the senate was marked by a gradual
growth of the anti-slavery sentiment and his
speeches and votes aroused the admiration of the
friends of freedom and the bitter hatred of the
conservative party, not only in congress, but
throughout the United States. He alone voted
against a resolution thanking Generals Scott and
Taylor for their victories in Mexico. He also
met and defeated Senator Foote in a debate
which gave to the Mississippian the epithet
"Hangman Foote." He also advocated the
abolition of flogging in the navy and of spirit-
rations to sailors and secured the passage of the
anti-flogging law, Sept. 23, 1850, and the anti-
spirit-ration law, July 14, 1862. In 1851 he was
counsel for Shadrach, a fugitive slave rescued
from the U.S. marshal in Boston, and in 1852, as
the representative of the Free-soil party, received
the nomination of the national convention at
Pittsburg, Pa., for President, with George W.
Julian for Vice-President. In the general election
held in November, 1852, the ticket received 156,-
149 popular votes. On retiring from the senate
on the accession of President Pierce, March 4,
1853, Mr. Hale determined to leave New Hamp-
shire and find a broader field for his work as an
agitator, and in the following winter he opened
a law office in New York city. The overthrow
of the Democrats in New Hampshire in 1853-54
determined him to return to his native state and
on June 13, 1855, he was elected by the legisla-
ture of the state to the U.S. senate to fill the
four years' vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Atherton. In the Republican national
convention of 1856 he failed to secure the sup-
port his prominence had promised and he did not
receive a single vote. He was re-elected to the
U.S. senate in 1858 and on the expiration of his
term, March 4, 1865, he was appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln U.S. minister to Spain, receiving his
commission, March 10, 1865. In his diplomatic
life he was less successful than in his political
career, and serious disagreements with Horatio
J. Perry, U.S. secretary of legation, resulting
from the abuse of official privileges, into which
Hale had been led by the craft of a designing
commission merchant through the intiigue of
Perry (as charged by Mr. Hale), led to his recall,
April 5, 1869, and he left Madrid. July 29, I869!
Mr. Perry was removed, June 28, 1867, before
Mr. Hale left Madrid. Mr. Hale was one of the
numerous victims to the poisoning at the National
Hotel, Washington, in 1857, and from that time
his health gradually failed. His physical decline
was aggravated by two serious accidents and
both his mental and physical powers finally gave
way. He received the honorary degree of LL.D.
from Dartmouth in 1861. A statue executed by
Ferdinand von Miller, Jr., was erected to his
memory at Concord, N.H., and presented to the
state by his son-in-law, the Hon. William E.
Chandler. He died at Dover, N.H., Nov. 19, 1873.
HALE, Lucretia Peabody, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1820; daughter of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale. She was educated at the celebrated schools of Elizabeth P. Peabody and George B. Emerson. She devoted her life to literature and served for two years on the Boston school committee. She became well known as a promoter of educational and chari- table associations, kindergartens and the intro- duction of the science of cooking and sewing in public schools. She is the author of : Hie Lord's Sapper and Its Observance (1866) ; llie Service of Sorrow (1867) ; The Struggle for Life (1867) ; The Wolf at the Door (1877); Seven Stormy Sundays (1879) ; Tlie Peterkin Papers (1882) ; Tit e Last of thePeterkins (1886) ; Stories for Children (1892). She died in Boston, Mass., June 12, 1900.
HALE, Matthew, lawyer, was born at Chelsea, Vt., June 20, 1829; the youngest son of Harry and Lucinda (Eddy) Hale; grandson of Col. Nathan Hale, who died while a prisoner in the hands of the British at New Utrecht, Long Island, Sept. 23, 1780; and a descendant from Thomas Hale, an English yeoman, who emigrated to America in 1635 and settled in Newbury^ Mass. Harry Hale was a leading merchant of Windsor, Vt., a captain of militia, represented Chelsea in the state legislature in 1828, 1832 and 1836; served as bank commissioner ; and was foremost in founding the Congregational church at Chelsea in
