Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party; a biography and a history . rred his spiritual allegiance to another denomina-tion. As the boys grew up, the anti-slavery questionwas the leading topic discussed in their hearing. Athome, it was as regularly a part of the daily routineas the morning and evening prayers,—each one ofthe seven sons taking his turn at reading aloud fromthe latest New York Tribune, which was the breathcraved by Father Burrows nostrils. In place of thetheater or the photoplay of today, the boys foundtheir chief diversion in the debating societies, but astolerated listene
Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party; a biography and a history . rred his spiritual allegiance to another denomina-tion. As the boys grew up, the anti-slavery questionwas the leading topic discussed in their hearing. Athome, it was as regularly a part of the daily routineas the morning and evening prayers,—each one ofthe seven sons taking his turn at reading aloud fromthe latest New York Tribune, which was the breathcraved by Father Burrows nostrils. In place of thetheater or the photoplay of today, the boys foundtheir chief diversion in the debating societies, but astolerated listeners only, and many a thrill was expe-rienced from the heat of the debates between theirexcited fathers and elder brothers. Father Burrows did not believe in higher educa-tion, but he neglected no opportunity for his sons tohear every great political speaker who came withindriving distance of his home town, and for them towalk ten miles and back was no unusual gala day in the Burrows household was whenFred Douglass, the colored orator, arrived at Graham-. ^^ I L L I A M B U R R () w s Father of Semilor Burrows i862] AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ii ville in a buggy drawn by two horses, and became thehonored guest of the family. Juhus was broken-hearted when his father declared that he was tooyoung to be taken to the lecture which Douglassdelivered, but he drank in with wide-open eyes andbated breath the tales of slave life which the coloredchampion of his race related within his hearing. Onthe morning after the lecture, one of Douglasshorses broke loose, and with rare zeal the boy enteredinto the chase and capture, feeling that at last oppor-tunity had been given him to make expression of thesympathy which until then he had kept silently withinhimself. By aiding Douglass, he felt that he hadtaken a definite step toward freeing the slaves, andhe enjoyed to the full the consciousness of his earlyconsecration. Senator Burrows kept no diaries, but in twentyvoluminous scra
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