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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
n he was an admirable coadjutor to Henry. One was the orator appealing to the sentiments and passions; the other the statesman invoking judgment and reason. He was not a broad man in his views; in fact his statesmanship appears to have been rather narrow and contracted, as evidenced by this question asked in debate: Does any man suppose that one general national government can exist in so extensive a country as this? If living to-day he would doubtless have opposed the acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philippines. He was not of that strain of counselors That, like a tuft of rushes in a brook, Bends every way the current turns itself Yielding to every puff of appetite That comes from majesty, but with true zeal He faithfully declared all. James Monroe. Attended a country school with John Marshall, with whom he traveled his eventful career, in war and peace, a long and honored course. He spent a term at William and Mary, but his elementary stock of knowledge was small,