Harvey WScott memorial number . nal government with sufficient powerto maintain the national authority. He it was who, foreseeingthe conflict between pretensions of state supremacy and thenecessary powers of national authority, succeeded, in spite oftremendous opposition, in putting into the Constitution thevital forces which have sustained it. Appomattox was his vic-tory. . The glory of Hamilton is the greatness ofAmerica. And on February 12,1908, the same thought movedhim to say: The idea is growing that the Government of theUnited States is no longer a Government of limited powers butmay co
Harvey WScott memorial number . nal government with sufficient powerto maintain the national authority. He it was who, foreseeingthe conflict between pretensions of state supremacy and thenecessary powers of national authority, succeeded, in spite oftremendous opposition, in putting into the Constitution thevital forces which have sustained it. Appomattox was his vic-tory. . The glory of Hamilton is the greatness ofAmerica. And on February 12,1908, the same thought movedhim to say: The idea is growing that the Government of theUnited States is no longer a Government of limited powers butmay cover all local conditions. This is a vindication of theprinciples of Hamilton against those of Jeiferson. The fameof the Virginian, said Mr. Scott, will rest, in future history, onhis acquisition of Louisiana and Oregon; this greatest of hisworks will fix him in history as the nations chief of Lxjuisiana was the most important of all thefacts of our history because it created the conditions necessary. HARVEY W SCOTT AT SEASIDE, OREGON. IN THE SUMMER OF 1905 HE WAS VERY FOND OF THE OCEAN BEACH AND IN LATER LIFE SPENT BRIEF PERIODS THERE HE RECEIVED HIS NEWSPAPER FROM PORTLAND IN THE AFTERNOON AND HEAD IT EAGERLY Review of Writings of H. W. Scott 169 to our -national expansion and consolidation. And afterLouisiana came the United States claims to Oregon. Philos-ophy of History was a favorite pastime of Mr. Scott and heapplied it in his later life to the maiin currents lof United Stateshistory—Norfliern and Southern. On July 11, 1902, when in-troducing Henry Watterson^^ at Gladstone, near Oregdn City,he reviewed these two strains of national life in an addresswhich awakened Mr. Wattersons admiration. IX EXPANSION OF NATIONAL TERRITORY The new expansion across the Pacific followinig the SpanishWar was, in Mr. Scotts opinion, a logical pursuit of nationalends. It opened a new destiny for the American republic. Itmeant great national power at sea, and expans
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