American clergyman, born in Longmeadow, MA, in 1789; died on the 13th of March 1857, in Savannah, GA. He was graduated at Yale in 1812. He was at first a minister of the Presbyterian Church, but afterward entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He relinquished preaching in 1829 from failure of his voice. From 1831 to 1835 he was in England as correspondent of the New York Observer, and on his return to the United States distinguished himself as a writer of political tracts, advocating the principles of the Whig party. He was editor of the True Whig in Washington from 1842 to 1844. In 1852 he became professor of political economy in Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Among his many publications on religious, political and other subjects are History and Character of American Revivals in Religion (1832); The Americans, by an American in London (1833); Abolition and Colonization Contrasted (1838); The Crisis of the Country (1840); Life and Times of Henry Clay (1846); and The Last Seven Years of the Life of Henry Clay (1856).
