Background
John Franklin Farnsworth was born at Eaton, Canada, of New England ancestry, the son of John Farnsworth and his wife, Sally Patten.
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Mr. FARNSWORTH. I believe the editors of that paper at that time, in 1856, were Messrs. Ritchie Pryor. By referring to the paper of that date, I find it headed, Richmond Enquirer, published daily, semi-weekly, and weekly, by Ritchie, Pryor, Duunavant. Whether that is the distinguished Mr. Pryor, who is now a member of this House, I do not know. Mr. PRYOR. I will inform the gentleman that it is the same individual ;and that if it be my privilege to engage the attention of the House, after the gentleman has concluded his remarks, I propose to submit some observations in reply. Mr. FAENSWOETH. I supposed that it was the same ;but not having the pleasure of the gentlemans acquaintance, of course 1could not speak as to the identity In the Richmond Enquirer of May G, 1856, I find this article also, and to it I ask the attention of the House :S outh Carolina and the Union. Social forms so widely differing as those of domestic slavery and (attempted) universal liberty, cannot long coexist in the great Republic of Christendom. They cannot be equally adapted to the wants and interests society. The one form or the other must be very wrong, very ill suited to promote the quiet, the peace, the happiness, the morality, the religion, and general wellbeing of communities. Uisunion will not allay excitement and investigation, much less beget lasting peace. The war between the two systems rages everywhere, and wi tinue to rage till the one conquers and the other is exterminated. I f, with disunion, we could have the all and end all there, the inducement would be strong to attempt it. But such a measure would but inspire our Kuropean and American adversaries with additional zeal, c. Now, Mr. Clerk, that is pretty strong irrepressible-coufltct doctrine, it seems to me; and that, too, coming from this paper, which is, I believe, almost universally quoted by the Democracy, especi (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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John Franklin Farnsworth was born at Eaton, Canada, of New England ancestry, the son of John Farnsworth and his wife, Sally Patten.
At an early age he became a resident of Michigan, practising surveying. In 1842 he set up as a lawyer in St. Charles.
He entered politics as a Democrat but after 1846 he espoused the anti-slavery cause as a supporter of Owen Lovcjoy.
About 1852 he moved to Chicago and in 1856 he was elected to Congress as a Republican from the 2nd or Chicago district, the Democratic State Register characterizing him as “a full-blown Lovejoy abolitionist” (Sept. 25, 1856).
In 1858 he was reelected from the same district.
He gained the approval of his anti-slavery constituents by a resolution of inquiry into violations of provisions of the Ashburton Treaty with regard to the slave-trade (Aurora Beacon, Jan. 6, 1859), and by a resolution satirizing Buchanan’s proposal to annex Cuba by the suggestion of annexing British America (Belleville Advocate, Feb. 9, 1859).
He was defeated for renomination in 1860 by Isaac N. Arnold, and refused to run as an independent.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Farnsworth raised the 8th Illinois Cavalry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac.
J. F. Farnsworth was promoted brigadier-general November 29, 1862, but had previously commanded a cavalry brigade.
He served in the Peninsular and Antietam campaigns.
Disabled by severe injuries at the end of 1862, he resigned his commission and took the seat in Congress to which he had been elected in the fall.
He voted for the Thirteenth Amendment and spoke for the repeal of the Fugitive-Slave Law (Rockford Register, July 9, 16, 1864).
He was reelected to Congress in the fall of 1864, and by virtue of successive elections served until March 3, 1873.
He urged the impeachment of Johnson in 1867, and took an active part in the impeachment proceedings of 1868.
The election of 1870 made it evident that Farnsworth had outstripped the sentiment of his district.
His former majority of 14, 000 in the election of 1870 had sunk to a plurality of 300.
He was not renominated in 1872.
In 1874 he contested the 4th District against Hurlbut, the Republican candidate, in a hot campaign (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 12 and 28, 1874), and in 1880 was mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for governor (Illinois State Register, Jan. 9, 16, 1880).
His political career, however, was at an end.
In that year he removed to Washington where he practised law until his death, and acquired a considerable fortune in real estate.
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With regard to Reconstruction, he was at first one of the radicals. He spoke in favor of the Fourteenth Amendment and of the reconstruction acts.
On October 12, 1846, he married Mary A. Clark.
