TOOMBS, ROBERT Revolution or Secession. (His Last Speech before 2003 On Indian Schools. (Delivered in the United States VOORHEES, DANIEL WOLSEY 2013 On the Tilden Controversy. (Delivered in 1876, on WASHINGTON, George 2021 2025 Reply to Hayne. (Delivered in the Senate, Jan. 26, Adams and Jefferson. (Delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Aug. 2, 1826) . WELLINGTON, THE DUKE OF Photogravure after a photograph from life WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD Photogravure after a painting CHARLES SUMNER FACING 1812 Photogravure after a painting FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES CALIFORNIA THEODORE ROOSEVELT ADDRESS AT STATE FAIR OF MINNESOTA [Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, was born in New York city in 1858. He graduated at Harvard in his twenty-second year, and almost at once interested himself in the political affairs of his native city as a member of the Republican party. He was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1886 was a candidate for the mayoralty of New York city, and three years later was appointed a civil service commissioner of the United States. When the "reform" administration of Mayor Strong assumed the government of New York city, Theodore Roosevelt was made president of the police board. President McKinley's administration having taken over the national government, young Roosevelt was selected as assistant secretary of the navy. But the war with Spain came on, and he resigned to go to the front with the regiment known officially as the First United States Cavalry Volunteers, but popularly as "Roosevelt's Rough Riders." The war over, he was elected governor of the state of New York. Before his term ended he was nominated by the Republican national convention as the party candidate for Vice-President of the United States. The assassination of McKinley in 1901 placed Theodore Roosevelt in the presi dential chair-the youngest of all the successors of Washington. The first of the following addresses was made at Minneapolis, 1901; the second, before the Bible Society, 1901; the third, at Cincinnati, 1902.] N his admirable series of studies of twentieth-century problems, Dr. Lyman Abbott has pointed out that we are a nation of pioneers; that the first colonists to our shores were pioneers, and that pioneers selected out from among the descendants of these early pioneers, mingled with others selected afresh from the Old World, pushed westward into the wilderness, and laid the foundations for new commonwealths. They were men of hope and expectation, of enterprise and energy; for the men of dull content, or more, dull despair, had no part in the great movement into and across the New World. Our country has |