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Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life

Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life

Buckingham, Joseph Tinker

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151156728
ISBN13: 9781151156723
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.33 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...of redress, and which has since been honored with the abusive and contumelious reproaches of a set of politicians, whose motives in this respect are, to say the least, of doubtful purity. The stain of the Hartford Convention Mr. Bliss must carry with him to the grave; and he must be contented to live proscribed to a certain extent, unless apostacy from Federalism (which God forbid!) should atone for the transaction. It has been hinted that Mr. Bliss is willing to have his connection with the Hartford Convention forgotten, and that he had discovered some symptoms of a temporizing policy. But no one who sees him in his place, and witnesses the firmness of his morality, can give credit to the suggestion. In the House of Representatives Mr. Bliss has not displayed very brilliant powers. His style of speaking has no fascination. He is logical, but not eloquent; sometimes energetic, but never graceful. His discernment is clear and his perception rapid. He is active, patient, industrious, and persevering. Public business may be safely entrusted to his hands; for he seems, as a legislator, to act from no motive but what he conceives to be the public good. He was untiring in his efforts to obtain a repeal of the law of March, 1826, relating to usury, because he thought it permitted the avaricious to oppress the needy with impunity; and he opposed the operations of lotteries in any and every shape, because he had satisfied himself that games of chance were demoralizing to the community. Mr. Dana of Groton furnishes an exemplification of the truth of the commonly received notion that the era of good feelings has done much to wear off the roughness of old political prejudices and to soften the asperities of party. He has been many years in public life. He...

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