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MANLY, BASIL. 



MARSH, JOHN". 



of 1869 contains 29 Republicans and 2 Demo- 

 crats in the Senate, and 119 Republicans and 

 30 Democrats in the House. 



MANLY, Rev. BASIL, D. D., an American 

 Baptist clergyman, author and college presi- 

 dent, born near Pittsburg, Chatham County, 

 N. 0., January 28, 1798; died at Greenville, S. 

 0., December 21, 1868. His collegiate education 

 was obtained in the College of South Carolina, 

 whence he graduated in 1821. He commenced 

 preaching soon after leaving college, in Edge- 

 field District, S. C., and removed thence to 

 Charleston, to become pastor of the First 

 Baptist Church in that city, in 1826. He re- 

 mained in this pastorate until 1837, when he 

 was called to the presidency of the University 

 of Alabama, where he continued, managing the 

 affairs of the university with great ability till 

 1856, when, owing to impaired health, he re- 

 signed and again accepted the pastorate this 

 time of the Wentworth Street Baptist Church 

 in Charleston. In 1859, he returned to Ala- 

 bama and engaged in missionary labors in that 

 State. Finding his health failing, he removed 

 to Greenville, S. 0., and spent his last years in 

 agricultural pursuits; preaching, however, 

 when he was able. In 1845 he was the leader 

 in the movements which led to the organiza- 

 tion of the Southern Baptist Convention, and 

 in 1858 he was active in founding the Baptist 

 Theological Seminary at Greenville, S. 0. Dr. 

 Manly had written much for the press ; more, 

 however, in the way of occasional sermons and 

 addresses, review articles and contributions 

 to the religious periodical press, than in books 

 of a more permanent character. A treatise on 

 Moral Science from his pen, for some years a 

 text-book in Southern colleges, indicated abil- 

 ities of a high order in the discussion of meta- 

 physical questions. He was ardently Southern 

 in his views, and sympathized very heartily 

 with the Southern States in the late war, but 

 at its close resigned himself calmly to the re- 

 sult, and admitted its possible eventual bene- 

 fits to the South. 



MANN", ABIJAH, Jr., a politician and politi- 

 cal leader from New York, born in Fairfield, 

 Herkimer County, N. Y., September 24, 1793 ; 

 died at Auburn, N. Y., September 6, 1868. 

 His early education was obtained in the pub- 

 lic schools of Herkimer County, aided by the 

 assiduous instruction of his mother, who was a 

 woman of remarkable ability and intelligence. 

 He began life as a school-teacher, but soon be- 

 came a tradesman, and in time acquired con- 

 siderable real estate in the principal cities and 

 villages in the State, at length purchasing a coal- 

 mine in Lackawanna County, Pa. He early en- 

 tered political life as a Republican of the Tomp- 

 kins school, and gloried in wearing the " buck- 

 tail." He soon became a man of mark; was 

 elected justice of the peace, appointed post- 

 master, and finally was chosen to the Assembly 

 in 1828. He served three successive terms, ob- 

 taining a wide notoriety for his active hostility 

 to the proposed Chenango Canal. He was 



elected to Congress in 1832, and reflected in 

 1834. Having been appointed on a committee 

 to investigate the affairs of the United States 

 Bank, he went to Philadelphia, but was de- 

 nied access to the institution. At once he 

 procured laborers and sent them to excavate 

 their way under the building. This proceed- 

 ing induced the officers to let Mr. Mann have 

 his way, and he made a thorough investigation, 

 the result being the disclosure of the most as- 

 tounding official corruption then on record. 

 Mr. Mann's service in Congress expired with 

 the second administration of Jackson, and in 

 the autumn of the same year he was elected to 

 the Assembly. Several years afterward he re- 

 moved from Herkimer County, and opened an 

 office in Jauncey Court in New York City, re- 

 siding in Queens County, and representing that 

 county in the Democratic Convention of 1854. 

 In 1855 the Republicans held their first nom- 

 inating convention, over which Governor 

 Fenton presided. Preston King was nominated 

 for Secretary of State, and Mr. Mann for At- 

 torney-General. The American party, how- 

 ever, carried the State. In 1857 Mr. Mann was 

 nominated by the Republicans for the Senate 

 from the second district, but was defeated by 

 Samuel Sloan. This was his last appearance 

 before the public. But he took a lively inter- 

 est in political matters, generally acting with 

 the Republicans, though retaining his early at- 

 tachment for the distinctive financial views of 

 the Barnburners. 



MARSH, Rev. JOHN, D. D., a Congregation- 

 alist clergyman and reformer, born in Weth- 

 ersfield, Conn., April 2, 1788; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., of congestion of the brain induced 

 by the intense heat, August 4, 1868. Dr. Marsh 

 was the son of a Congregationalist clergyman, 

 eminent in the early history of Connecticut, 

 and received a careful and thorough educa- 

 tional training in childhood from his father. 

 He entered Yale College at the age of twelve 

 years, and graduated in the class of 1804. He 

 subsequently studied theology with his father, 

 but did not commence preaching until 1809. 

 He was settled as pastor of the First Congre- 

 gational Church in Haddam, Conn., in 1818, 

 and continued there till 1833. Meantime he 

 had become deeply interested in the temperance 

 movement which was then attracting much 

 attention throughout the State, and had com- 

 menced preaching upon the subject in his own 

 town, which, like most others in the State, was 

 suffering greatly from the intemperate use of 

 intoxicating liquors. In 1828 a county society 

 was organized, of which he was one of .the offi- 

 cers. In the spring of 1829 the Connecticut 

 State Temperance Society was founded, with 

 Rev. Jeremiah Day, D. D., president of Yale 

 College, for president, and Rev. John Marsh, 

 secretary. "Without relinquishing his pastoral 

 charge, Mr. Marsh engaged actively in the 

 duties of this office, delivering temperance ad- 

 dresses in all parts of the State, and rousing 

 the people to abandon their evil habits. It 





