INTRODUCTION. IOGRAPHY is the meat and marrow of history. EIiminate personality from the chronicIes of a nation, and they would disappear from active society. What to us were a history of Greece, without a record of the lives of Socrates, of Pericles, and Xenophon of Rome, without Csar, Cicero, and Seneca of England, without Shakspeare, Cromive, and Newton or of America, without Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and other immortal spirits whose courage and wisdom Iaid the foundations of this grand Republic, and whose ...
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INTRODUCTION. IOGRAPHY is the meat and marrow of history. EIiminate personality from the chronicIes of a nation, and they would disappear from active society. What to us were a history of Greece, without a record of the lives of Socrates, of Pericles, and Xenophon of Rome, without Csar, Cicero, and Seneca of England, without Shakspeare, Cromive, and Newton or of America, without Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and other immortal spirits whose courage and wisdom Iaid the foundations of this grand Republic, and whose statesmanship and patriotism have preserved it The virtues are but glittering generalities, beautiful abstractions, not active forces, until incarnated in human form. Men endowed with intelligence, patriotism, integrity, philanthropy, courage, in large measure, are by that fact ordained representatives of grand ideas, accepted leaders of their fellows and when the times are right for a bold forward march in the never-ending campaign of progress, or a vigorous assault upon the ever-existing strongholds of injustice and oppression, the masses find their leaders, and foIlow them to victory.Now it is Leonidas, at the pass of Thermopylz, holding back the myriad hosts of Persia, through the patriotic courage of three hundred men, who recognize him as the embodied hope of Spartan liberty, Again it is Tell, defying the arrogance of Gessler, in the name of the freedom-loving sons of Switzerland. Again it is Cromwell, leading the Puritan armies to the overthrow of the Stunt dynasty in the name of justice and religion. Then it is Washington, marshalling the patriot hosts of America against the hired minions of George the Third. These men were the chosen executors of the will of God, the instruments by which he delivered his people from bondage, The foes of liberty, justice, and equality the Tory element in American society the men who believe in the aristocracy of wealth, and the right of the rich to rule and rob the poor those who hold that moneyed men and rich corporations should control the finances of the country, and that all legislation upon this important subject ought to be dictated by bankers and brokers, -these, taking advantage of the honest and unsuspecting people, while they were settling the question of negro-slavery by the sword, intrenched themselves in the strongholds of the Government, They bribed the venal and deceived the ignorant public men, to such an extent, that Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President became their slaves. They have ordained the platforms of both the Republican anand Democratic parties for the past fifteen years, and dictated the policy of each succeeding administration. Under their selfish opinion, the government has been practically subverted, and justice, the parent of liberty, is no longer a guide to the nation. The producing and enterprising classes are taxed to support a priviIeged class of untaxed, non-producing capitalists, as well as to sustain a large standing army whose chief excuse for existence is that it may protect the grasping and arrogant few against the possible vengeance of a plundered and oppressed people. And, while thus heavily burdened, our property is depreciated, and our debts correspondingly increased, by the deliberate action of Congress, and the Secretary of the Treasury, through the contraction of the currency. The men of enterprise are thus bankrupted, the wage-laborers brought to the verge of famine, and the farmers are rapidly sinking from the comfortable state of independent yeomen, to that of tenants at will...
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