Background
Martin Franklin Conway was born on November 19, 1827, in Fallston, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Dr. W. D. Conway and Frances (Maulsby) Conway.
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Shall The War Be For Union And Freedom, Or Union And Slavery?: Speech Of Hon. M.f. Conway, Of Kansas : Delivered In The House Of Representatives, Thursday, December 12, 1861
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Excerpt from The War a Reactionary Agent: Speech of Hon. M. F. Conway, of Kansas, Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 27, 1863 Even for his late proclamation of emancipation he seeks justification on the exclusive ground of its absolute necessity to the end of restoring the Union. The country has recently been shocked by a disclosure of the fact that the visit of M. Mercier, the French minister, to Richmond, last summer, supposed at that time to have reference to tobacco, was really an embassy from the Fed eral Government, designed to bring about a resumption of the Union by the slaveholders. M. Mercier, in writing to his Government on the subject, under date of 13th April, 1862, says that he was authorized by our Secretary of State to tell the slaveholders, that, in his opinion, the North was animated by no sentiment of vengeance, and that, for himself, he should with pleasure find himself again in the Senate in the presence of those whom the South thought it fit to send thither. To this policy I have been strenuously Opposed from the commencement of this war. I have regarded it as utterly unsound in principle, and calculated to produce consequences the most disastrous. I have not regarded the seceded States, during the period of civil war, as having any constitutional relations whatever; nor have I regarded the leniency and procrastination of the Executive as calculated to have any other effect than defeat to us and ultimate triumph to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The War, a slave Union or a free?: speech of Hon. Martin F. Conway, delivered in the House of Representatives, December 12, 1861
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Letter of Hon. M. F. Conway to Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in support of President Johnson's policy of reconstruction
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Martin Franklin Conway
Edit ProfileEducation
Martin left school at the age of fourteen and went to Baltimore, where he learned the printer’s trade. While working as a compositor he aided in founding the National Typographical Union, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1852.
Career
In 1855 Conway removed to Kansas. As correspondent for the Baltimore Sun he reported conditions in the new territory for some time after his arrival. Later he was elected a member of the first territorial legislature but resigned without taking his seat.
He took an active part in the Big Springs convention, September 5, 1855, which formulated the platform of the free-state party (later the Republican Party). A few weeks later he was elected a delegate to the Topeka constitutional convention and wrote the resolutions offered by that body. State officers were elected under this constitution, and Conway was chosen one of the supreme court justices of the territory. In 1858 he was elected a delegate to the Leavenworth constitutional convention of which he was made president.
In 1859 he was nominated for representative in Congress by the Republicans and elected by a majority of 2, 107 votes over John Halderman, his opponent. Kansas did not become a state until January 29, 1861, and the Congress to which he had been elected expired on March 4 following. He served during this short interval, being the first congressman from Kansas, was promptly renominated, and elected again in June 1861.
Failing to be renominated at the end of his term in the Thirty-seventh Congress, he retired to private life but kept up his interest in public affairs. In the struggle between President Johnson and Congress, he strongly supported the former. The President appointed him United States consul at Marseilles, France, in June 1866. After his term of service ended he made his home in Washington, D. C. , where, on October 11, 1873, he fired three shots at former Senator Pomeroy, slightly wounding him. When arrested Conway said, “He ruined myself and family. ” The former Senator declared that there had never been any trouble between them. Undoubtedly Conway was becoming unbalanced; later his mind gave way entirely as a result of disappointed ambition, and he was confined in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane, at Washington, where he died.
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Letter of Hon. M. F. Conway to Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in support of President Johnson's policy of reconstruction
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The War, a slave Union or a free?: speech of Hon. Martin F. Conway, delivered in the House of Representatives, December 12, 1861
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The War a Reactionary Agent: Speech of Hon. M. F. Conway, of Kansas, Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 27, 1863 (Classic Reprint)
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Shall The War Be For Union And Freedom, Or Union And Slavery?: Speech Of Hon. M.f. Conway, Of Kansas : Delivered In The House Of Representatives, Thursday, December 12, 1861
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Letter of Hon. M. F. Conway to Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in support of President Johnson's policy of reconstruction
Politics
Conway was a member of the Republican Party. In the Thirty-seventh Congress he was noted for his radical utterances on the slavery question. Soon after the first session began he made a speech in which he declared that the paramount object of the federal government should be immediate and unconditional emancipation. Until such a policy should be adopted, he said, he would “not vote another dollar or man for the war. ” “Millions for freedom but not one cent for slavery, ” was one of his epigrams.
Connections
Conway was married to Emily Dykes in June 1851.
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