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WHATELY, RICHARD. 



Whately to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin, 

 and in 1846, on the death of Dr. Charles Lind- 

 say, he succeeded to the bishopric of Kildare 

 also, that see having been united with Dublin, 

 by the Church Temporalities A ct. He was also 

 Visitor of Trinity College, Dublin ; Prebendary 

 ex officio of Cullen in St. Patrick's Cathedral ; 

 Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 and Chancellor of the Order of St. Patrick. 

 For more than twenty years he was one of the 

 Commissioners of National Education in Ire- 

 land, and during that period he bent all his 

 energies to its advancement and defence. He 

 endowed the Professorship of Political Econ- 

 omy in the Dublin University; not from his 

 abundant wealth, but by the exercise of a strict 

 economy in his personal and family expendi- 

 ture. The archbishop was a voluminous writ- 

 er. Tlie published productions of his pen, 

 many of them pamphlets, and local or occa- 

 sional in character, are more than a hundred 

 in number ; but he has also written many 

 books which will live. The following list com- 

 prises the most important of his published 

 works : " The Christian's Duty with respect 

 to the Established Government and the Laws," 

 London, 1821; "Historic Doubts relative to 

 Napoleon Bonaparte," Oxford, 1821; "The 

 Bampton Lectures for 1822, on the Use and 

 Abuse of Party Feeling in Religion," 1822; 

 "Essay on some of the Peculiarities of the 

 Christian Religion," 1825; "Elements of Log- 

 ic," 1826; "Elements of Rhetoric," 1828; 

 "Essays on some of the Difficulties in the 

 Writings of St. Paul," &c., 1828; "Errors of 

 Romanism," 1830 ; " Introductory Lectures to 

 Political Economy," 1831 ; " Essay on the 

 Omission of Creeds, Liturgies, &c., in the New 

 Testament," 1831; "Thoughts on Secondary 

 Punishment," Dublin, 1832 ; " Sermons on 

 Various Subjects," Oxford, 1835 ; " Essays on 

 some of the Dangers of Christian Faith which 

 may arise from the Teaching or Conduct of its 

 Professors," 1839; "The Kingdom of Christ 

 Delineated," 1841 ; " Thoughts on the proposed 

 Evangelical Alliance," 1846 ; " Introductory 

 Lectures on the Study of St. Paul's Epistles," 

 1849; "English Synonymes," 1851; manuals 

 for the national schools on " Money Matters," 

 on " Reasoning," on the " Evidences of Chris- 

 tianity," and on the "British Constitution," 

 published between 1840 and 1852; "Thoughts 

 on the New Dogma of the Church of Rome," 



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1855; "Scripture Revelations as to Good and 

 Evil Angels," 1855 ; " Scripture Revelations as 

 to a Future State," 1856 ; " Bacon's Essays, 

 with Notes," 1856. 



WISCONSIN. In June a correspondence 

 took place between Governor Salomon, of Wis- 

 consin, and Gen. Pope, commanding the De- 

 partment of the Northwest, in reference to the 

 exercise of military authority in enforcing the 

 conscription. The governor, learning that re- 

 quests had been made to supply State arms to 

 the assistant provost-marshal, expressed the 

 belief that the people were willing to obey the 

 law, and the civil authorities to execute it. In 

 his reply Gen. Pope says that he will employ 

 military force only after every resource of the 

 civil authority has been used without success. 

 He uses the following language : 



I have been satisfied from the beginning that in 

 nearly every case the conscription law can be executed 

 by the civil authorities alone, through the people acting 

 under their direction in the legal and usual forms. In 

 the discretion intrusted to me by the Government, as 

 to the employment of military force for the execution 

 of this law within this military department, I have 

 steadily declined to permit the use of any troops under 

 my command, unless I could be convinced that all 

 other legitimate means had been tried without success. 

 Already, in one or two cases, I have found that appli- 

 cation for military aid had been made without ne- 

 cessity, the enrolment under the law having been 

 completed thoroughly by the willing aid of the civil 

 authorities. 



The habit of resorting to military force in every tri- 

 fling case of opposition or resistance to the laws, is 

 becoming so common as to excite in the minds of ju- 

 dicious men very serious alarm. Such a practice en- 

 tirely supplants the civil authorities, sets aside time- 

 honored means for the enforcement of the laws in this 

 country, destroys in the citizen that feeling of personal 

 interest in their execution, through which alone we 

 have maintained popular government, and prepares 

 the public mind for complete abdication of cwil rule. 

 It is impossible to believe that citizens of this country, 

 except under the immediate influence of excitement, 

 can be willing to trust the enforcement of civil law to 

 military force, and thus to surrender the very highest 

 privilege and duty of American citizens. 



The Legislature gave an earnest support to 

 the war, and appropriated $350,000 to organize 

 and bring into active service the militia, " to 

 repel invasion, suppress insurrection and defend 

 the State in time of war." 



The vote for governor at the fall election 

 stood as follows : Lewis (Republican), 79,959 ; 

 Palmer (Democrat), 55,218; majority for Lewis, 

 24,711. The number of troops sent to the army 

 by Wisconsin up to Nov. 1st, 1863,was 42,585. 



YANCEY, WILLIAM LOWNDES, an America/i 

 politician, born in Columbia, S. C., in 1815, died 

 near Montgomery, Ala., July 28th, 1863. Early 

 in life ho removed to Alabama, and represent- 

 ed that State in the 28th and 29th Congresses. 

 He subsequently became known as a prominent 

 leader of the extreme Southern States' Rights 

 party. In 1858 he advocated the organization 

 of "Committees of Safety" in the South, and 

 in 1859 urged the calling of a convention by 



the State of Alabama, in the event of the elec- 

 tion of the Republican candidate for President 

 in 1860. In Jan., 1861, he reported the secession 

 ordinance in the Alabama Convention, and in 

 the succeeding March went to Europe to urge 

 upon foreign powers the recognition of the Con- 

 federate States. Early in 1862 he took his seat 

 in the rebel Congress as one of the senators 

 from Alabama, and until near the close of fiis 

 life was actively engaged with legislative duties. 



