Economics and politics : a series of papers upon public questions written on various occasions from 1840 to 1885 / Rowland Gibson Hazard ; edited by Caroline Hazard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1801-1888, author.

Contributor:

Hazard, Caroline, 1856-1945, editor.

Series:

Library of American civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 405 pages).

Other Title:

Economics and politics

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.

Summary:

This volume contains the results of my grandfather's best thought upon public questions throughout his life. The first essay was written before he reached his fortieth year, when his mind was fully matured and in the first vigor of its working power. The dates of the successive speeches and papers show how constantly his attention was directed to human affairs with an ever widening interest. The fragmentary article on the Tariff which closes the volume was written in his eighty-fifth year, and was the last paper from his busy pen. The secret of this activity, this never-failing interest, is not hard to find. He was a seeker after truth, in ethics, in politics, in the conduct of life. A sentence in one of his speeches, written in his fiftieth year, nobly expresses his belief: "I have ever had too much faith in the practical workings of correct general principles to apprehend even individual injury from them. But, above all this, I believe there is that within me which prompts me fearlessly and faithfully to search out these general principles, and which, when they are found, impels me to give them utterance regardless of my own or any other narrow and temporary interests." The principles enunciated in the Railroad articles my grandfather lived to see accepted as lying at the root of railroad legislation. The Tariff articles also had their effect. The Financial articles, published at the close of the war, were issued in London. Some of them were translated into Dutch and published in Amsterdam, where they did much toward inspiring confidence in our resources. The clearness and keenness of my grandfather's vision made the dangers which menaced our country and our institutions very real to him and drew from him these cogent arguments, these earnest protests, and these burning appeals. "If by the blessing of Heaven," he says, "there be aught of power within me, either for warning or for resistance, the will to exert it shall not be wanting.

Contents:

Causes of the decline of political morality

Circular letter on specie payment

Speech in the House of Representatives on the fugitive slave law

Relations of railroad corporations to the public

Speech on the act to equalize the charges for carrying freight

Speech on the railroad bill. Before the Rhode Island Senate. 1854

Bribery

The Narragansett speech

Address of the Republican State Central Committee to the electors of Rhode Island. 1860

High duties on wool will lessen our financial ability without benefiting the wool growers

Statements in addition to the arguments of May 11th before the Congressional Committee of Ways and Means

Woollen manufactures as affected by the tariff

Our resources. A series of articles on the financial and political condition of the United States

Letter to President Lincoln

Hours of labor

How to resume specie payments

Reconstruction; Freedmen's Bureau

The Union Pacific Railroad Company

Payment of the five-twenty bonds

Inflated currency. Farmers the greatest losers by it

Our finances

Letter on woman's suffrage

Grant and Colfax Speech

Constitutional rights

The tariff.

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