The negro question: an address delivered before the Wisconsin Bar Association
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Secretary Root's Record: Marked Severities In Philippine Warfare: An Analysis Of The Law And Facts Bearing On The Actions And Utterances Of President Roosevelt And Secretary Root
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The Philippine Policy of Secretary Taft, (Second Edition)
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The Conquest Of The Philippines By The United States. 1898-1925
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A year's legislation. The address of Moorfield Storey: Delivered at Saratoga Springs, August 19, 1896
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The Democratic Party and Philippine Independence (Classic Reprint)
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The promises of the party have been clear and explicit. When the treaty with Spain was ratified by -which the United States acquired the islands, the votes of the Democratic senators, with out which the treaty would have been rejected, were given upon the theory that the treaty would end the rights of Spain in the islands, and that we should give them their independence.
The first Democratic National Convention after the treaty met on July 4, 1900, and its declarations were positive. These were its words: We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; that any government not based upon the consent of the governed is a tyranny, and that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute the methods of imperialism for those of a republic.
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Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, author, publicist, and anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Background
Moorfield was born on March 19, 1845 in Roxbury, Massachussets, United States, the son of Charles William and Elizabeth (Moorfield) Storey. Both his parents were of colonial stock, his earliest paternal ancestor having come to Ipswich about 1635. About 1800 the spelling of the name was changed to agree with the spelling of an English branch of the family with which relationship was assumed.
Education
Storey attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard College, receiving the degree of A. B. from the latter institution in 1866, and proceeding to its law school.
In May 1869 he left Washington to study law in the office of Brooks and Ball in Boston.
Career
In October 1867 Storey was offered the position of clerk to the United States Senate committee on foreign relations, in effect the office of secretary to its chairman, Charles Sumner, and, as the duties of this post were considered technically equivalent and superior as training to the methods usual at that time of preparing for the practice of law, he accepted it. As a result he was closely connected in an official capacity with the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
He qualified as a member of the bar on August 28, 1869, and in October, when the position of assistant district attorney fell vacant, he was promoted to that office. From June 1871 until October 1873 he practised law with his father; he then returned to the office of Brooks and Ball as a partner. The firm he joined was regarded as the most active one in Boston in the practice of commercial law, and he quickly acquired a reputation that eventually grew to be international in range. Firms with which he was associated as a leading member were in the front rank for nearly fifty years.
His own branch was the management of litigation, in which he was conspicuously successful, but his office also achieved high repute for the value of its opinions and the thoroughness with which its instruments were drafted. He once stated that he could remember only one instance in which an opinion given by his office as to the validity of bonds was overruled, and that was by a Texas decision that overruled nearly every lawyer in the country and had to be corrected by the legislature.
In 1900 he dallied with the possibility of running for president or vice-president on the third party ticket, and when that came to nothing, he was a candidate for Congress as an independent, but received only a few votes. He wrote something like eighty pamphlets or articles, and innumerable public letters, in addition to seven books, which include Charles Sumner (1900), Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1911) with E. W. Emerson, The Reform of Legal Procedure (1911), Problems of Today (1920), and The Conquest of the Philippines (1926).
With the exception of some that were legal, historical, or biographical, most of his writings were on subjects on which feeling ran high or in which only a minority was interested. But not all his opinions, even when they were severely critical, were neglected or coldly received, for a speech before the American Bar Association in 1894 on the inefficiency and corruption of American legislatures made such a favorable impression that he was elected president of the organization the next year, and he was on the conservative side in the controversy over Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Though he was often called a Puritan, he did not deserve that designation if being a Puritan means, as some say it does, frantic striving to abolish everything the dour cannot trust themselves to indulge in moderately or to practise gracefully, for he lacked neither social nor intellectual accomplishments, and he had a sense of the ridiculous, which the true Puritan never has.
Politics
He was a crusader against political corruption, and because he attributed it to them, he attacked Benjamin Franklin Butler and James Gillespie Blaine, even opposing a memorial statue to Butler years after his death, and leading the Mugwumps in their desertion of Blaine for Cleveland in 1884.
Views
Storey opposed United States expansionism beginning with the Spanish–American War. He advocated unpopular causes effectively, being a good lawyer, and, though he may have attached more importance to the abstract than to the actual, he was honest and courageous in public affairs.
He was a leader in the Anti-Imperialist League that opposed United States ownership of the Philippines; he espoused the cause of the colored people and defended the rights of the American Indian.
Membership
He was a member of the Glee Club while at Harvard. He was also a member of the Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society, a member of the American Fund for Public Service Committee on American Imperialism, and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr. , he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government. "
Connections
On January 6, 1870, in Washington, he married Gertrude Cutts, who died in 1912. There were five children, four of whom, with grandchildren and great-grandchildren, survived him.