Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party; a biography and a history . for his idealshad been realized, and that was the justification of hisconsecration. Within two years the young enthusi-ast found further opportunity to give tangible evi-dence of his loyalty and devotion, for he was amongthe first to offer himself in the defense of his is difficult for us who have learned the history ofour Nation in the midst of comfort and safety toappreciate how deep-rooted become those lessonswhich are learned first-hand in the smoke of politicalcontroversy, or on the bloody battlefields of
Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party; a biography and a history . for his idealshad been realized, and that was the justification of hisconsecration. Within two years the young enthusi-ast found further opportunity to give tangible evi-dence of his loyalty and devotion, for he was amongthe first to offer himself in the defense of his is difficult for us who have learned the history ofour Nation in the midst of comfort and safety toappreciate how deep-rooted become those lessonswhich are learned first-hand in the smoke of politicalcontroversy, or on the bloody battlefields of a civilwar. It is easy for us, looking backwards, to criticisea Party which has from time to time been torn byinternal corruption, and has indisputably erred injudgment: it is easy for us to question the sincerityof any man who stands by his Party through thickand thin for sixty years; but when one follows Bur-rows through these years of Party loyalty and dis-covers his unswerving integrity to principle, his con-stant fight against the individual betrayal of the high. MARIA B. SMITH BURROWS Mother of Senator Burrows i862] AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 9 ideals for which his Party stood at birth,—all doubtof sincerity vanishes, and one is forced to admirationnot unmixed with wonder that so consistent and sostraight a path as his could be preserved. Julius Caesar was the seventh son of William Bur-rows, a native of Connecticut, and Maria B. Smith,who came from Massachusetts. They moved to afarm at Busti, Chautauqua County, New York, soonafter their marriage, and later to Grahamville, NorthEast Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, wherethe namesake of the famous Roman Emperor wasborn on January 9, 1837. His name was always asource of mortification to him, but it was an expres-sion of his mothers fervid imagination,—an attributewhich he inherited from her to a marked names of his six brothers and his one sister in-cluded Hannibal Hamilton, Jerome Bonaparte, Chris-topher
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