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The Great Destroyer: Speech of Hon. Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, February 2, 1911 (Classic Reprint)
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The Sinking of the "Merrimac": A Personal Narrative of the Adventure in the Harbor of Santiago De Cuba, June 3, 1898, and of the Subsequent Imprisonment of the Survivors
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The Truth About Alcohol: Speech of Hon. Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, December 22, 1914 (Classic Reprint)
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Richmond Pearson Hobson was an American naval officer. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and later served as a U. S. Representative from Alabama.
Background
Hobson was born on August 17, 1870, in Greensboro, Alabama, United States. He was the second son and second of seven children of James Marcellus and Sarah Croom (Pearson) Hobson, and a grandson of Richmond Mumford Pearson, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. His father, the son of a planter, was a lawyer, one-time state legislator, and for many years a probate judge.
The boy himself had at an early age some of the marks of distinction. He was "formal, " "grave faced, " precocious, and there was "a smouldering fierceness in his eyes. "
Education
When Hobson was twelve, after preliminary study in private schools, he entered Southern University in his home town of Greensboro, where he remained for three years. From there he went to the United States Naval Academy, graduating at the head of his class in 1889. Evidences remain that he was more successful intellectually than socially at Annapolis, where he was apparently ostracized by his classmates for meticulously reporting, as duty required, their misdemeanors. Only one man is supposed to have spoken to him over a two-year period. It is said that when a resumption of intercourse was proposed by the midshipmen, Hobson refused on the ground that he had gotten along satisfactorily without them. But his experiences no doubt left a considerable impression on the young man. In a novel that he wrote, Buck Jones at Annapolis (1907), the hero, for similar causes, is clapped into Coventry - "a punishment beyond anything conceived of elsewhere. " Quite possibly, also, the experience caused Hobson to choose the Construction Corps rather than the line duty in the navy which attracted most of his classmates.
Following his graduation, his midshipman's cruise, and a year's duty in the Navy Department, Hobson went to Paris to obtain a degree (awarded in 1893) at the École d'Application du Génie Maritime.
Career
Hobson started as a naval constructor with the fleet. In the early spring of 1898, a lieutenant, he was ordered to the New York, soon to become the flagship of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, as adviser on the stability of warships in action.
The war with Spain began not long after Hobson had reported to the New York. In May, the first month of hostilities, the United States fleet conducted a blockade of a kind around Cuba and a search of sorts for the Spaniards in surrounding waters. In spite of these precautions, the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera, steaming at a speed of six or seven knots, slipped through the waiting American squadrons and into Santiago harbor. A scheme was devised by Sampson to seal up the enemy vessels by sinking a ship in the narrowest part of the harbor channel. Hobson was put aboard the Merrimac, an old naval collier, to prepare her for this purpose and, after several days' work, was selected to take the ship with a crew of seven volunteers into the channel to complete her mission.
Before dawn on June 3, 1898, after a day's postponement, the vessel proceeded to Santiago. She had not gone very far up the channel before the Spanish shore batteries opened against her with a heavy bombardment. One of the shots damaged the steering mechanism, causing the collier to drift out of control. Hobson attempted to sink her by exploding the array of torpedoes he had contrived, but only two exploded. The vessel therefore drifted on until she sank from damage done by a combination of fire from the Spanish shore batteries, torpedoes from the Spanish vessels, and the torpedoes Hobson himself exploded. Unfortunately, by the time she went down the Merrimac was in a position which left the channel open. Hobson and his men were taken from a catamaran by Admiral Cervera himself and placed for a time in benign imprisonment in Morro Castle.
This dramatic physical action, like Roosevelt's at San Juan Hill, apparently brought the strange war within a compass that could be comprehended by the American public. It also provided, perhaps, a unifying center on which could be concentrated the patriotic emotions that had been left something less than satisfied by haphazard military operations, embalmed beef, and controversies among commissioned personnel. In any event, when Hobson returned to this country he was swarmed over by crowds touched with the hysteria that attends religious revivals. A secular note was added when, at a reception in Chicago, he greeted a cousin with a kiss. Others claimed similar tokens of regard, and by the time he reached Denver he gave the traditional salute to five hundred women in that city. Hobson's kiss became a byword--and a trade name for a candy. The enthusiasm burned itself out, leaving Hobson with the "dead sea fruit" of a minor advance within the Construction Corps.
Resigning from the service in 1903, he devoted the rest of his life to promoting through political action, ceaseless publication, and organizations of his own creation the ideas and causes that interested him. These were many and varied: American naval supremacy, which he believed to be "the will of God"; the prohibition of liquor, "a protoplasm poison"; the suppression of narcotics, "the modern pirates. " In 1906, allying himself with the anti-railroad faction of Braxton B. Comer in Alabama, he won election to Congress, where he served four terms.
In 1914 he lost a hard-fought race for the United States Senate to Oscar W. Underwood, despite strong backing from progressives and prohibitionists. If he found himself thwarted and confused by the role of hero, he joined an excellent company of men like Steve Brodie and Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. , who likewise found themselves, by a single exploit, catapulted into prominence in a society that has never been able to define or assimilate the role very well.
He died of heart disease in New York City, where in his later years he had made his home. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Hobson was a brave, intelligent, unusual man, capable of heroic action on independent duty.
Connections
In 1905, Hobson married Grizelda Houston Hull, a cousin of U. S. Army general Joseph Wheeler, in Tuxedo Park, New York. The couple's son, Richmond P. "Rich" Hobson Jr. , became a rancher in Canada and wrote several popular memoirs of his time there. Hobson's nephew, James Hobson Morrison Sr. , was the Democratic congressman from the Baton Rouge-centered Sixth Congressional District of Louisiana from 1943 to 1967.