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In its persistence, it...)
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In its persistence, its territorial range, the odds it overcame and the results it achieved, it was the best and most prolific effort of the century - the birth of a new nation, springing quickly toward first rank, and inspiring the liberalizing revolution of European states and the larger political enfranchisement of mankind.
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The Republican Party, Its History, Principles and Policies (Classic Reprint)
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There has been at times a tendency rather to fling at its grand old record than to count the value of its work. It is especially important, therefore, that the popular mind be instructed to look beyond the catchwords and party cries of the hour, and to comprehend the principles that are at stake. Happily, too, a reaction has already begun in consequence of the present Democratic supremacy, with its painful backsliding from the pretense of civil-service reform ;the acknowledged inability of its chief to rise above its own level, either of reform or of administration ;its humiliating abandonment of American rights in all its negotiations with foreign powers; and its now unconcealed surrender of the protection of American industries and labor. The Republican party has not only made a Presidential nomination which commands the universal respect due to a loyal soldier, a wise statesman, and an honest, unspotted man, but its platform is a fearless, outspoken statement of its faith, evading nothing, inviting discussion, patriotic, progressive, A merican. The following pages will not have been written in vain if they shall cooperate with the efforts of a party which puts such leaders at its front and so boldly enunciates its principles; or if they shall help to reawaken the spirit which in 1861 sprang, at the risk of life itself, to the rescue of freedom and the Union, and which in 1888 is again summoned to the battle of the people the battle of an honest vote against a corrupt ballot-box; of education and temperance against the grog-shop ;of protected labor against pauperism; and of a country developed, defended, prosperous, against national humiliation on the one hand or an innocuous desuetude on the other. The Editor.
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A Memorial to Patrick A. Collins ; History of its Inception, Establishment and Dedication
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Limity and daring as lofty as the intellectual heights above which he soared with unequaled strength. So had he been godlike.
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Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1882 (Classic Reprint)
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The divine right of kings was not a doctrine that could thrive in such soil; and no sooner did the colonies begin, as a result of simple growth, to feel their power and to touch shoulder with one another in the sympathy of their geographical and political affinities, than independence became inevitable, and only sought occasion and apology for its own asser tion.
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The American Business Encyclopædia And Legal Adviser, Volume 2
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John Davis Long was an American lawyer, politician, and writer. He was the 32nd Governor of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1883 and member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd district from 1883 to 1889. He served as the 34th U. S. Secretary of the Navy from 1897 to 1902.
Background
John Davis Long was born on October 27, 1838 in the village of Buckfield, Maine, United States. His father, Zadoc, was descended from Miles Long who went to Plymouth, Massachusetts, from North Carolina about 1770; his mother, Julia Temple (Davis) Long, was a descendant of Dolor Davis who came to Massachusetts from Kent, England, in 1634. Two influences shaped Long's boyhood, the village and his father. Without the village he would not have had his cheerful and tolerant philosophy, his shrewd but kindly understanding of human nature, and his dreams and poems of pleasant meadows and sunny blue skies. Without his father he would have had neither the ambition nor the discipline necessary for reaching the goals he attained.
Education
Long was never satisfied with his schooling. His preparatory education at Buckfield and in the Academy of nearby Hebron, Maine, seemed inadequate. In spite of a high scholastic rating, he considered his years at Harvard College (1853 - 1857) both an educational failure and an unhappy personal experience. Likewise he believed that his legal training, picked up in law offices and during a term in the Harvard Law School, had left him poorly grounded in fundamentals and permanently handicapped. His real education must have been gained from his own insatiable eagerness for self-improvement.
Career
Long taught for two years in the Academy at Westford, Massachusetts, but to Boston and to the law he was driven inevitably by what he called a desire to express "the consciousness of power" within him. In 1863 he wrote in his journal: "Can such a man [as I] succeed, get rich, acquire a reputation?" The answer was triply in the affirmative. He was admitted to the bar in 1861 and after a year in Buckfield, returned to Boston, where he built up a lucrative practice.
During his steady advance in his profession his home life was pleasant. He lived in the attractive village of Hingham, close enough to Boston for daily visits. In politics Long was honest and something of a peacemaker rather than venturesome. If he desired reform it never led him either to leave his party or to prod it into traveling at an uncomfortable pace. After 1871, in which year he accepted a Democratic nomination for the legislature and ran (unsuccessfully) as an independent, he was steadfastly associated with the Republican party, accepting Blaine in 1884 and denouncing Roosevelt in 1912. He was elected to the legislature in 1875, held the speakership in 1876 and 1877, and rapidly ascended the ladder of party service until he reached the governorship, which he occupied for three annual terms, 1880, 1881, and 1882. His office was run efficiently and honestly, but it was in the main a routine administration.
From 1883 to 1889 he sat in Congress, his committees--Shipping, Commerce, and Appropriations--indicating his main interests. Perhaps his most important speeches during this period of service were those on the whiskey tax, March 25, 1884; on interstate commerce, December 3, 1884; on silver coinage, March 27, 1885; and on the French spoliation claims, August 4, 1888. Some of his addresses were published under the title, After-dinner and Other Speeches (1895).
In 1897 William McKinley appointed him secretary of the navy. He was too wise to endeavor to master the intricacies of his department. "My plan, " he wrote, "is to leave all such [technical] matters to the bureau chiefs . .. limiting myself to the general direction of affairs . .. especially personal matters. " Here his tactful manner did much to remove friction and to promote cooperation within the department. Again he opined that the cabinet officer "does not so much represent the Department before the people as he represents the people in the Department". The untarnished record of the navy in the war with Spain must in part be accredited to the secretary. He was closely associated with McKinley, was conservative and calm in judgment, and gave his department loyal support. Involved in the unhappy Sampson-Schley controversy, he conducted himself in a wholly creditable manner. He retired from the cabinet in 1902.
Much of his later life was devoted to writing, chiefly on naval affairs. Some of his poems appeared in a little volume entitled At the Fireside (1905). In 1888 he had edited a campaign history, The Republican Party, Its History, Principles, and Policies, and, with others, he edited The American Business Encyclopædia and Legal Adviser (5 vols. , 1913). To the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (vol. XLII, 1909), he contributed "Reminiscences of My Seventy Years' Education. " He also found time to advocate a number of reforms, including prohibition, woman's suffrage, world peace, and the abolition of the death penalty.
Achievements
During his tenure as U. S. Secretary of the Navy, Long was responsible for taking major Navy decisions at the time. He was the one who ordered to neutralize the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, the seizure of Spanish Guam and supported a blockade and offensive operations against Cuba. While in politics, some of his proposed reforms on the measured expansion of women's voting rights and allowing women to sit on state boards were enacted into law by his successors. He was also known for his publications about the navy and the Spanish-American War, by far the most important of which was his work "The New American Navy" (2 vols. , 1903).
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Politics
Long was a member of the Republican Party. In his early politics he supported the reformist Republican Benjamin Butler for governor in 1871. Long and Roosevelt did not get along: in addition to personality differences, Roosevelt pushed a view to aggressively modernize and expand the Navy against Long's more studied and conservative approach.
Connections
On September 13, 1870, Long married Mary Woodward Glover of Hingham. She died in 1882 after bearing her husband two daughters, and on May 22, 1886, he married Agnes Peirce of North Attleboro, who bore him a son.
