Tarry at home travels . one, to see with amazementhow well the English Parhament goes on in thehands of five or six hundred gentlemen in Englandwho take upon themselves the direction of thatempire. .And I lay do^vn that book with a certamAmerican pride, that when you send two or threehundred men to the state legislature for a few 196 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS months, taking them from mill, forge, fishing-hoat, counting-room, pulpit, garden, farm, quarry,or whatever other range of life you choose, whenyou follow them to the House of Representatives or to the Senateof their state, thewhole machinery
Tarry at home travels . one, to see with amazementhow well the English Parhament goes on in thehands of five or six hundred gentlemen in Englandwho take upon themselves the direction of thatempire. .And I lay do^vn that book with a certamAmerican pride, that when you send two or threehundred men to the state legislature for a few 196 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS months, taking them from mill, forge, fishing-hoat, counting-room, pulpit, garden, farm, quarry,or whatever other range of life you choose, whenyou follow them to the House of Representatives or to the Senateof their state, thewhole machineryof legislationmoves forwardwith absolutedignity, as if eachman were trainedin hereditarysuccession tomake laws for hispeople. So, in-deed, each man is,if he have the good luck to be born in New does Massachusetts show in the Hall ofFame? By hook or by crook, we succeeded, afair majority of us, in selecting twenty-ninenames for Miss Goulds list of heroes. They wereto be the names of Americans by birth who had. Professor Asa Gray. MASSACHUSETTS 197 died more than ten j-ears before our , out of the twenty-nine, Massachusetts hadfifteen, if you will let us count in Channing, DanielWebster, Beecher, and Asa Gray. This includesLongfellow who was born in Maine when it was apart of Massachusetts. She had John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, DanielWebster, Joseph Stoiy, George Peabody, Eh Whit-ney, Samuel F. B. Morse, Asa Gray, JonathanEdwards, Horace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher,Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,Henry Longfellow, William EUery Channing. In the picture gallery of Harvard College wehave three Presidents, — John Adams, JohnQuincy Adams, and Rutherford B. Hayes, be-cause he was at our Law School. Hayes was bornand educated in boyhood in Ohio. Still, thesewill do for our fame in the hall where for onereason or another we could not include JohnHancock, Samuel Adams, Edward Everett, Wen-dell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, HenryLaurens Dawes, and Ge
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