. Review of reviews and world's work. HON. THOMAS E. WATSON. OF GEORGIA. they have made Tom Watson their standard-bearer. Who can withhold admiration from a manwho has fought his way through all sorts ofobstacles to success—who has run the raceheavily handicapped from the first, and won it ?That is what Tom Watson has done. Let ushave a rapid glance at the story of his life. Per-haps at the very outset we hit upon the secret of 420 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF MRS. THOMAS E. WATSON. his success,—it was in the blood, good Quakerblood, from his ancestors who migrated fromNorth Caroli
. Review of reviews and world's work. HON. THOMAS E. WATSON. OF GEORGIA. they have made Tom Watson their standard-bearer. Who can withhold admiration from a manwho has fought his way through all sorts ofobstacles to success—who has run the raceheavily handicapped from the first, and won it ?That is what Tom Watson has done. Let ushave a rapid glance at the story of his life. Per-haps at the very outset we hit upon the secret of 420 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF MRS. THOMAS E. WATSON. his success,—it was in the blood, good Quakerblood, from his ancestors who migrated fromNorth Carolina and established a colony on fortythousand acres of land between the Savannahand the Ogeechee rivers, in Georgia, a centuryand a half ago. Among these Quakers wereWatsons ancestors on both sides—the Watsonsand the Maddoxes. They were landowners fromthe first ; and they must have been lightingQuakers, too, for they took part in political andmilitary affairs as occasion demanded, and theyadopted one of the very first resolutions againstBritish oppression passed by a public meetingin the Colonial days. A Thomas Watson wasone of the signers. Members of the familyserved in the Revolution. The father and unclesof the present Thomas Watson fought in thei on federate army. AS cor NT If Y SCHOOLMASTER. The Civil War ruined the Watsons, as it didpretty nearly every one in the South. They lostall of their slaves and most of their land. The remnant of the latter which t
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