Defense of Rhode Island, Her Institutions, and Her Right to Her Representatives in Congress: Speech of Hon. Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island, in the ... States, February, 1881 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Defense of Rhode Island, Her Institutions, and Her Right to Her Representatives in Congress: Speech of Hon. Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island, in the Senate of the United States, February, 1881
A republican government is that in which the body, or only a part of the people, is possessed of the supreme power.
Macaulay says The Roman Emperors were republican magistrates, named by the senate.
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The Columbian Naval Melody: A Collection of Songs and Odes, Composed on the Late Naval Victories and Other Occasions (Classic Reprint)
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But he danced Yankee doodle home instead of Chevy: chase, sirs, And was very glad to get back to Boston again.
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Memorial Addresses, on Several Occasions: Delivered in the Senate of the United States (Classic Reprint)
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I first met Mr. Douglas soon after he had taken his seat in this body, in whose debates and deliberations he had al ready begun to hold a leading part, and with whose history his name has since been so iclosely identified. The frank cordiality of his manners, the unaffected kindness of his heart, the directness of his Speech, and the readiness with which he declared himself upon all the questions of the day, made upon me that favorable impression which a more inti mate acquaintance strengthened and confirmed.
It is not my purpose to follow his public career, or to en large upon the qualities of his character; that grateful office has already been performed. But I have often thought that in his indomitable energy and will, in his sturdy self-reliance.
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The Anthony memorial. A catalogue of the Harris collection of American poetry with biographical and bibliographical notes
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Memorial Addresses, on Several Occasions: Delivered in the Senate of the United States
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A complete report of the American-Republican legislative causus in Newport
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Henry Bowen Anthony was a United States newspaperman and political figure.
Background
Henry Bowen Anthony was born on April 1, 1815 in Coventry, Rhode Island, United States, a descendant of John Anthony of Hampstead, England, who came to Boston in 1634 and removed to Rhode Island about 1640, was born at Coventry, R. I. His father was William Anthony and his mother was Eliza Kinnicutt Greene.
Both his father and his maternal grandfather, James Greene of Warwick, were Quakers.
His father was a cotton manufacturer and the part of the town in which they lived was called Anthony. Most of his life was spent, however, in Providence.
Education
Anthony attended village school and the Friends' meeting-house.
In Providence he fitted for college at a private school and entered Brown University in 1829.
He made a good, though not brilliant, record in college and graduated with his class in 1833, carrying with him a very definite leaning toward letters.
Career
Although he went into business, to which he gave five years, partly in Providence and partly in Savannah, Georgia, literature remained his major interest. In 1838, when he was twenty-three years old, he was invited by a kinsman who owned the Providence Journal to take the editorship during an interim of a few weeks.
He exhibited such a surprising gift and aptitude for the editorial duty that what began as a mere stop-gap became permanent. So skilfully did he guide the fortunes of the paper and so general was the respect and influence it attained under his direction that he was soon seen to be indispensable.
Thus it came about that he was in charge of the paper--the most influential journal in the state--in 1842 during the Dorr Rebellion, one of the crises in the modern history of the old commonwealth. During that time of turbulence and disorder, the newspaper office became the center and rallying-point of the conservative interests of the state and its editor rose to a position of exceptional authority. To Anthony the paper owed not only its political power but very largely also its excellent literary style. Examples of his skill in verse are the mock heroic poems, "The Dorriad" and "The Chepachet Campaign, " satirizing Dorr and his partisans, which appeared in the Journal in 1843.
Throughout his life and even up to within a week or two of his death he continued to exercise a guiding influence over the Journal, writing paragraphs and articles which were marked by urbanity, charm, and a shrewd knowledge of men and affairs. Naturally enough then, when in 1849 a conservative candidate was sought for the governorship, Anthony was named and elected governor of the state, was reëlected in 1850 and was urged to run again in 1851, but declined.
His administration as governor fulfilled the expectations of his friends and gave him a reputation both for talent and sagacity in the conduct of public affairs. It was, therefore, a matter of course that when he was nominated in 1858 for the Senate he was elected with little opposition. The atmosphere of the Senate was particularly congenial to Anthony's tastes and abilities. There he was chosen president pro tempore on many occasions, in 1869, 1870, 1871, and for the last time in 1884, when he declined to serve on the score of ill health.
It was no wonder that he was returned by his loyal state time after time until he had become the "Father of the Senate"; he was still a member when he died, full of honors and greatly admired both by his associates and his constituents. Anthony was one of the type of senators whose services lie rather in the exercise of judgment and practical wisdom than in any definite contribution either to law or practise.
He was a member, however, of important committees: Claims, Naval Affairs, Mines and Mining, Post Office and Post Roads, and finally that of Public Printing, on which he served for more than twenty-two years and there labored to reduce the extravagance and waste, to restrict public printing to the legitimate demands of the various government departments, and to make the Congressional Record a faithful transcript of congressional proceedings. In these endeavors he was only partly successful; they were such desirable ends, however, that they have been pursued, and some of them attained, by others.
Similarly as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, a post which he filled from 1863 to 1884, he exerted always a sound and moderating influence.
Anthony's funeral, which took place from the First Congregational Church in Providence on 6 September 1884 was the largest funeral ever known in Rhode Island.
Achievements
Anthony was known and respected as the “Father of the Senate, " and was Rhode Island’s most powerful politician for many years. During his career he created a powerful political machine that enabled him to control Rhode Island.
He brought to the Senate the character and attainments of a gentleman, a profound and sympathetic knowledge of the state he represented, and an urbanity and courtesy which made him a valued associate in the upper chamber.
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Politics
He was conservative by constitution: he voted for the impeachment of Johnson, was a steadfast supporter of a protective tariff, and was no less firm in support of a sound currency.
Personality
Anthony had his personal charm and dignity, good knowledge of affairs, and a natural ease and kindliness of manner.
Connections
In 1837 he married Sarah Aborn Rhodes, daughter of Christopher Rhodes. She died in 1854. They had no children, and he never remarried.
