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James Watson Webb was a United States diplomat, newspaper publisher and a New York politician in the Whig and Republican parties.
Background
James Watson Webb was born at Claverack, N. Y. Through his mother, Catharine Hogeboom, he came of old New York Dutch stock, and through his father, Gen. Samuel Blachley Webb, an aide of Washington, of old Connecticut stock, his first American ancestor being Richard Webb who was admitted freeman in Boston in 1632 and went to Hartford in 1635.
Education
Early orphaned, he was educated at Cooperstown, N. Y. , under the guardianship of a brother-in-law, but at seventeen ran away to join the army.
Career
Appearing in Washington (1819) armed with a letter of identification from Gov. DeWitt Clinton of New York, he persuaded Secretary of War John C. Calhoun to give him a second lieutenant's commission. He was assigned at first to the artillery at Governor's Island, N. Y. , but was transferred in 1821 to the 3rd Infantry at Chicago. There, in 1822, he had a notable frontier adventure, when he volunteered to carry to Fort Armstrong on the Mississippi news of a meditated Indian attack on Fort Snelling, Minn. , crossing the forests and prairies of Illinois in the depth of winter while trailed by hostile Indians. As impetuous as he was audacious, Webb fought two duels with fellow-officers, came near fighting many more, and finally (1827) resigned from the army in consequence of one of these embroilments. At this time he was a first lieutenant; his later title of general was conferred at the time of his appointment as minister to Austria. On leaving the army young Webb went to New York City and plunged into a journalistic career, eventually to become one of the most influential editors in that age of personal journalism. In 1827 he acquired the Morning Courier, and in 1829 acquired and merged with it the New-York Enquirer, thereafter continuing as editor and proprietor of the Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer until he sold out to the World in 1861 and retired from the field. At first staunchly Jacksonian, he deserted Jackson in 1832 on the United States Bank issue, and became a chief prop of the Whig party. He was an anti-abolitionist but a free-soiler, and during the 1850's urged the preservation of the Union even at the cost of ear. The Courier and Enquirer was one of the old sixpenny "blanket sheets" destined to be starved out by the smaller, cheaper papers, two of which were founded by one-time assistants of Webb's, James Gordon Bennett, the elder, and Henry Jarvis Raymond. With its chief rival, the Journal of Commerce, the Courier and Enquirer waged a war of size which eventually produced folios containing over two thousand square inches of type. In the 1830's the rivals sent schooners fifty to a hundred miles to sea in a race for incoming news, and established pony expresses to hasten the news from Washington. With the editors of the penny papers Webb later exchanged plentiful invective, until he was called the "best abused" of them all. He was frequently involved in affairs of honor growing out of his editorial activities, on one occasion (1842) escaping prison under the New York anti-dueling law only by the pardon of the governor. At the outbreak of the Civil War Webb sold his paper and, somewhat to his own surprise, found himself in the diplomatic service. He had journeyed to Vienna in 1849-50 under appointment (Jan. 7, 1850), as chargé d'affaires to Austria, only to be greeted with the news that the Senate had refused to confirm his appointment, perhaps because of a widespread desire to break with Austria in protest against the Hungarian war. He was now (May 31, 1861) made minister to Brazil, and went to his post via France, where he presented the Union cause to Louis Napoleon, his friend and correspondent since their meeting in 1835 while Napoleon was in exile. Later, through correspondence and another fateful interview (November 1865), Webb was instrumental in securing a promise of French withdrawal from Mexico. The record of his eight strenuous years in Brazil is marked by an alert patriotism and a bold energy verging on rashness. He had the satisfaction of seeing the unfriendly British envoy sent home in disgrace. He fought tirelessly against the aid extended to Confederate privateers, protected the interests of Americans during the Paraguayan War, and secured the settlement of several long-standing maritime claims. Retiring from the service in 1869, he traveled in Europe for two years, and then lived quietly at home, mostly in New York, until his death.
Achievements
His publications include a number of pamphlets: To the Officers of the Army (1827) on the occasion of his resignation; Slavery and Its Tendencies, written in 1856; A Letter to J. Bramley-Moore, Esq. , M. P. , on the affair with the British envoy; and A National Currency (1875). He also wrote Reminiscences of General Samuel B. Webb (1882).
Webb's tall figure, massive head, and piercing eyes gave him a dignified, even imposing presence, which he retained until old age, in spite of a half-century's battle with hereditary gout.
Connections
Webb was twice married: first (July 1, 1823) to Helen Lispenard Stewart, daughter of Alexander L. Stewart, who died in 1848; second (November 9, 1849) to Laura Virginia Cram, daughter of Jacob Cram, millionaire brewer. Of the eight children born of the first union, five grew to maturity, the youngest being Alexander Stewart Webb, the well-known Civil War general. There were five sons born of the second marriage.