Good Government Volume 19-20 (Paperback)

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. 1902 Excerpt: ...life. We have encouraging examples of progress in many historical pages. Let me remind you of the passage of the Reform Bill and the Catholic Emancipation, and of the removal of the disabilities of the Jew, and the repeal of the Corn Laws in Great Britain. In our own country remember how long it was between the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Emancipation proclamation. Let me mention also the opposition to public schools which thwarted for many years the efforts of Horace Mann and Henry Bernard, efforts which ultimately led to the adoption, throughout the land, of that bulwark of civil liberty, the American methods of popular education. Yet in our struggle we have seen great victories. Go back to the year 1830 and read the story of General Jackson's accession to the presidency as it is told in Schouler's third volume of the History of the United States, and in Sumner's Memoir of Jackson, and in John Fiske's Essay on Politics seventy years ago. Then turn to the nineteenth report of the United States Civil Service Commission just issued from the press. This is the graphic story of Schouler. After Jackson's inauguration, "the halls of the White House were filled with a disorderly rabble, common people forcing their way into the saloons and mingling with the foreigners and distinguished citizens who surrounded the President. China and glass were broken in their struggle to get at the ices and cakes, though punch and other drinkables had been carried out in tubs and buckets to them; but had it been in hogsheads it would have been insufficient, besides unsatisfactory, to the mob who claimed equality in all things. The confusion became more and more appalling. At one moment the President, who had retreated until he was pressed against the wall of th...