E ire .2 Hz UC-NRLF ^B bD 23M CO o HI o >- GUFT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP An Analytical Reierence Syllabus BY GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD, Ph. D. Head Frofessor of Political Science and Sociology PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1909 , THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP An Analytical Reference Syllabus BY GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD, Ph. D, Head Professor of Political Science and Sociology PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1909 ,^1 8 M7 PREFATORY NOTE. This course was offered as an experiment in 1907-8 and again in 1908-9. The results tend to prove that the study of nation- building through the lives of the builders has a singular attrac- tion and a rare value. The great man is no longer looked upon as an individual hero in the Carlylean sense. Genius may be hereditary, as Galton insists ; but it is opportunity, environment, which sets it free. We are coming clearly to see that a man is not less a hero, not less a genius, because mainly he is a product of the forces which determine the whole social life-struggle of his age. There is the social hero. Perhaps in no more effective, certainly in no more interesting, way can one study social causa- tion, the historical process, than through the evolution of person- ality. The secret of personality may be the secret of a national crisis. The revelation of the unique personality of Abraham Lincoln is the explanation of his achievement as president. George Elliott Howard. Lincoln, June 15, 1909. (3) 251300 . > ANALYTICAL INDEX. PAGES 7-9 Section 1. Eoger Williams, the Apostle of Soul Liberty 7-S 1. Eoger Williams and his Ideals 8-9 2. Eoger Williams and his Contemporaries Massa- Section II. James Otis, the First Eevolutionary Leader of ^"^^ chusetts .• of Section III. Patrick Henry, the First Eevolutionary Leader Virginia 11-1. Section IV. Samuel Adams, the Organizer of American Public 13-15 Opinion • 15-19 Section V. Eobert Morris, the First American Financier Section VI. Benjamin Franklin, the First American Diplomatist.. 19-22 22-26 Section VII. George Washington, the First American Section VIII. Alexander Hamilton, the Organizer of American Finance ^^'^^ 31-34 Section IX. Thomas Jefferson, the Father of American Democracy. 35-37 Section X. John Marshall, the Expounder of the Constitution 37-42 Section XL James Monroe and his Doctrrine 37-39 1. Chief Events in Monroe's Career Doctrine 39-42 2. Origin and Development of the Monroe 42-40 Section XII. John Quincy Adams, a Puritan Scholar in Politics.. ^^"^^ 1. Adams the Man 2. Adams the President ^^ 43-45 3. Adams and Federal Patronage 45 4. Adams and Slavery, 1829-1848 46-50 Section XIII. Andrevr Jackson, a Frontiersman in Politics 46-48 1. Evolution of Jackson's Personality 48-50 2. Problems of Jackson's Administration 50-54 Section XIV. Henry Clay, the Compromiser ^^-^^ 1. Evolution of Clay's Personality 51-53 2. Clay, the American Statesman Federal Union. 54-57 Section XV. Daniel Webster, the Defender of the . 54-50 1. Evolution of Wer)ster's Personality Union 56 2. Webster, the Champion of the National 56-60 Section XVI. Charles Sumner, the Apostle of Peace and Liberty. 61-65 Section XVII. Abraham Lincoln, the Typical American Genius 61-63 1. The Evolution of Lincoln's Personality 63-64 2. The Quality of Lincoln's Personality ' (5) O ANALYTICAL INDEX. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF STATESMEN. PAGES I. Joseph Galloway 66 IL Gouverneur Morris 66-67 IIL John Adams 67-68 IV. Aaron Burr 68-69 V. Albert Gallatin 69 VI. James Madison 69-70 VII. John Caldwell Calhoun 70 VIII. Stephen Arnold Douglas 71 IX. William Henry Seward 71-72 X. Salmon Portland Chase 73 XI. Jefferson Davis 73 XII. Robert Edward Lee 73-74 XIII. Ulysses Simpson Grant ' 74-75 BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP. Section I. Roger Williams, the Apostle of Soul-Liberty (1604-1683). A. Roger Williams and his Ideals. I. Early Life of Williams. 1. Home, parentage, nationality. 2. Education; his patron, Sir Edward Coke. 3. Personal appearance, manner, and character. II. Characteristics of the Times of Roger Williams. 1. Politically. a. The England of James I and Charles I. }).' their The First English Colonies : two chief causes of planting, c. Contrast between the Separatists of Plymouth and the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. 2. Intellectually: Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben Jonson, Hooker, and others. 3. Religiously. a. The rise of sects (Masson, Life of Milton^ III, 136- 159). 1). Persecution; migration of the sects. III. The Ideas and the Ideals of Roger Williams. 1. His religious and ecclesiastical ideas: an Anabaptist in- dependent or teacher of "absolute toleration"; con- trast between the liberal views of the early Anabaptists and those of contemporary sects (compare Masson, Life of Milton, III, 98 ff.) ; meaning of Williams' term "soul-liberty"? 2. His doctrine of race-equality in human rights as applied to the Indians. a. The English and present American doctrine regard- ing the lands of the Indians. ft. Roger Williams was 300 years ahead of Winthrop and the New England clergy in his view of Indian rights. (7) O AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP. 3. His doctrine of entire separation of church and state. a. He accepted the basic principle of the American na- tion. &. On this principle he founded the first free, self-gov- erning commonwealth in America, Rhode Island. B. Roger Williams and his Contemporaries. I. Roger Williams and the Boston Puritans. 1. Charges against him; were they valid? a. Was his Indian policy dangerous? 6. Was his love of controversy peculiar? Was it dan- gerous ? 2. His trial and expulsion from Massachusetts; he returns good for evil by saving Massachusetts from the Indians. II. The Cases of Anne Hutchinson (1590-1643) and Roger Wil- liams Compared. a. Meaning of her term '^covenant of grace"? 6. The heresy trial; conduct of the clergy; of the presiding judge, Gov. John Winthrop (Brooks Adams, Emancipa- tion of Massachusetts, 65-78; Hart, Contemporaries, I, 382-87). III. The case of the Quakers compared with the cases of Wil- liams and Hutchinson (Hallowell, Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, 1-31, passim). 1. Meaning of their term, the "inward light"? 2. False charges made by the Puritans ; inaccuracy of Lodge, Fiske, Dexter, and Ellis in treating this case. IV. Conclusion. referp:nces. 1. Roger Williaiiis: To "break ground," read the short article in the New International Encyclopwdia, XX, 536. This may be followed by 0. S. Straus, Roger Williams (1894) ; and Richman, Rhode Island (2 vols., 1902). Older biographies are William Gammell, Roger Williams (1845, 1846) ; Romeo Elton, Life of Roger Williams (1852) ; and J. D. Knowles, Memoir of Williams (1834). Source materials may be found in John Winthrop, History of Neio England; and William Bradford, Plymonth Plantation. In his editorial Preface to John Cotton's Reply to Williams in the Narrag-ansett Club Publications, II, Professor Diman has examined the causes of Williams's expulsion from Massachusetts. The more important writing's of Williams may be consulted in the Publications of the Narrag-ansett Club; and Hart, Contemporaries, I, 402-406, gives his letter on "Toleration." There is a mass of writing on Williams and his times. See H. M. Dexter, Congregationalism, Index; idem. As to Roger Williams (hostile Ellis, in and biased) ; Massachusetts and its Early History (Lowell In- ; r JAMES OTIS. y ; stitute Lectures), 91 ff. idem, Puritan Age in Massachusetts, Index; Doyle, English Colonies, II, 113-26; Oliver, Puritan Commonwealth, 87-102, 192 ; Hildreth, Hist, of United States, I, 188, 221-23, 227-32, 291, 305, 394 Bancroft, Hist, of United States, I, 241-42, 249-56, 296-98; Masson, Life of Milton, III, 98 ff., 136-59; Gooch, English Democratic Ideas, 83-92; C. F. Adams, Three Episodes, I, 247, 325, 366, note, 375, 385 ; idem, Massa- chusetts: its Historians and its History, 25 ff., passim; Brooks Adams, Emancipation of Massachusetts, 104-27, and Index; Eg-g-leston, Begin- ners of a Nation, 307-14; Tyler, England in America, Index; Fiske, Be- ginnings of New England, 114-16; Haven, in Winsor, Memorial History ff., ; Ellis, of Boston, I, 119; Ellis, in ihid., 169 185 ff . in Winsor, Narra- tive and Critical History of America, III, 219 ft., 335-39 ; Lodge, Short History of the American Colonies, 47-48, 385-92 ; Thwaites, Colonies, ; 122-23; Fisher, Colonial Era, 114 ff . Channing, History of the United States, I, 362 ff. Bibliography : Channing and Hart, Guide, 100, 272-73 ; Winsor, Narra- tive and Critical History of America, III, 377-78; idem. Memorial History of Boston, I, 172-73. 2. Anne Hutchinson: Brooks Adams, Emancipation of Massachusetts, 46-78; C. F. Adams, Three Episodes, I, 363-509, II, 533-78; idem, Massa- chusetts: its Historians and its Histoi'y, 25 ff,, passim; Hildreth, I, 242-46, 253-58; Oliver, Puritan Commonwealth, 169 ff., 180, 195; Thvi^aites, Colonies, 133-36; Lodge, Short History, 349-50, 385 (biased); Bancroft, I, 260-64; Doyle, English Colonies, II, 129 ff., 138, 186, 188; Channing, History of the U. S., I, 368 ff. ; Eggleston, Beginners of a Na- tion, 329-49. There are source references in Colonial Records of Massa- chusetts, I, 207, 212, 225-26 ; an extract from her trial taken from Hutch- inson's History in Brooks Adams's book above cited ; and also in Hart, Contemporaries, 1, 382-87. G. E. Ellis has a short biography in the Sparks series. 3. The Quakers: Consult especially Sewell, History of the Qualcers Hallowell, Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, 1 ff. ; idem. Pioneer Quak- ers; Brooks Adams, Emancipation of Massachusetts, 128-78; C.