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Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rning andthe patient industry of investigation, to whichJohn Quincy Adams owed his prominence andthe Presidency ; he had some of those ponderouselements of mind which distinguished Mr. Web-ster, and which indeed in all our public life haveleft the great Massachusetts Senator without anintellectual peer. On the various complicated and knotty ques-tions that grew out of the process of reconstruc-tion at the end of the civil war, Garfield alwaystook an advanced and radical position. He wasone of the devoted band that stood by SenatorWade, of Ohio, in his somewhat brutal course asmember of the Committee on the Conduct ofthe War. Garfield was a moderate protectionist,and while he supported measures for the pro-tection of American industries, habitually coun-selled measures less severe than some of the moreultra protectionists in the House of Representa-tives advocated with much strenuousness. Onthe tariff bill of 1870 he said: After studyingthe whole subject as carefully as I am able, I am
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324 STATESMEN firmly of the opinion that the wisest thing thatthe protectionists in this House can do is tounite in a moderate reduction of duties on im-ported articles. He is not a faithful Representa-tive who merely votes for the highest rate pro-posed, in order to show on the record that he

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