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Henry Washington Hilliard was born on August 4, 1808 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States.
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Henry Washington Hilliard was born on August 4, 1808 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States.
Hilliard graduated from South Carolina College in 1826 and after studying law in the office of William C. Preston, Columbia, South Carolina, he went to Athens, Georgia.
In 1829 Hilliard was admitted to the bar. From 1831 to 1834 he held the first chair of English literature in the University of Alabama and acquired a state-wide reputation as an orator. Finding a professor's life monotonous, he abandoned it and settled at Montgomery to practise law and enter politics.
Identifying himself with the Whig party, he served in the state legislature from 1836 to 1838 (Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1928), and was one of the youngest delegates to the Whig national convention of 1839. He was defeated for Congress on the Whig ticket in 1840 and as a reward for party services was appointed, May 1842, chargé d'affaires to Belgium, in which office he served until June 1844.
Returning to the United States, he was nominated for Congress from the Montgomery district in 1845 and was the first Whig to be elected from that district and the only Whig to be elected from the state in that year. In 1847 he was reelected without opposition and continued to serve until 1851 when he refused to be a candidate. In 1861 he was Confederate commissioner under appointment of President Davis, to influence Tennessee to secede from the Union.
On December1, 1862, he was honorably discharged from service, having resigned to give his attention to his personal affairs. He returned to Montgomery and resumed the practice of law. After the war he made his home in Atlanta, Georgia, and practised there. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1876.
In 1877 President Hayes appointed him minister to Brazil, where many Southerners had settled at the close of the war, the appointment being a friendly gesture toward these voluntary exiles. Hilliard's period of service fell during the time that the emancipation of slaves was in progress in Brazil, and he lent a support to those who were agitating a quicker and more drastic method which attracted wide notice.
He had some literary skill, prepared the introduction and notes for a translation of Alesandro Verri's Roman Nights (1850), and was the author of a novel, De Vane: A Story of Plebeians and Patricians (1865). His best work, however, was done in his reminiscences, Politics and Pen Pictures at Home and Abroad (1892). He also published a collection of his early speeches under the title Speeches and Addresses (1855).
In 1881 he returned to Atlanta, where he died.
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Hilliard identified himself with the Whig party. From the beginning of his political career Hilliard was the leader of the forces in the state which were hostile to secession. He opposed the Wilmot Proviso, but supported the compromise measures of 1850. He was a prominent delegate to the state "union" convention in 1851 and was largely responsible for the convention's taking the position that a state has no constitutional right to secede.
He was the political opponent of William L. Yancey throughout his life and was regarded as the only man in Alabama who could meet Yancey on the platform on equal terms. Every political question of any importance between 1840 and 1860 was debated by the two men, and their debates attracted nation-wide attention.
Hilliard was a keen debater and a masterly stump speaker. The rising tide of secession in Alabama swept him from his political moorings.
In 1854 he left the Whigs and became a Know-Nothing. In 1857 he entered the ranks of the Democratic party, and in 1860 he voted the Constitutional Union ticket. At the next election in which he participated (1872) he voted for Horace Greeley. These shifts of party loyalty were denounced by his political enemies and Hilliard won a reputation for vacillation in party matters.
From his own point of view, however, he was quite consistent. He was a supporter of the Constitution and the Union, and he voted and worked for the party which offered him the best opportunity to oppose efforts to destroy them. In the Alabama convention in 1861 he led his last fight against secession. All his eloquence was used to defeat the ordinance. He appealed to the delegates to remember the debt they owed the Union for their growth and prosperity, and warned them that it would be a difficult thing for a group of agricultural states to conduct a government and protect their citizens successfully. His own comment on his failure is that they "heard me respectfully, but did not give me their sympathy".
He took no part in the organization of the Confederate government, but when President Lincoln called for volunteers he became a supporter of that government on the ground that the coercion of a state was a usurpation of authority by the president, and justified Southern resistance.
Hilliard was twice married: first to a Miss Bedell; and second to a Mrs. Mays, née Glascock.