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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 7: the shadow of slavery (search)
e of India, there favoring the nomination of presidents without the aid of a convention, and their election by the direct vote of the people. In one article he denounced the Democratic policy of abolishing paper money, while in another he commended the noble example of Iowa in abolishing the penalty of death. The next day we find him favorably considering Mr. Seward's doctrine of the higher law in connection with the return of fugitive slaves. Then follows an editorial commenting upon A. T. Stewart's marble palace as an illustration of the tendency of commerce to concentrate into fewer and fewer hands, impelled by an unexpressed instinct that economy and reliability are thereby attained. The man who keeps a stock of goods worth hundreds of thousands and sells annually to the value of millions can afford to undersell his smaller-dealing competitor, and cannot afford to bear the reputation of dishonesty and slipperiness. Hence as trade concentrates it becomes cleaner, fairer,
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 24: Grant's first administration (search)
inet announced wide-spread disappointment nominations of Stewart and Borie regarded with amazement Rawlins highly commende They were: E. B. Washburne, for Secretary of State; A. T. Stewart, for Secretary of the Treasury; John M. Schofield, holed but little attention at the time. The nominations of Stewart and Borie were received with amazement. They were both meNeither had ever held even the most insignificant office. Stewart was at the time the greatest merchant in the country, if nthis request was received with disfavor, the nomination of Stewart was after a few days reluctantly withdrawn, and that of George S. Boutwell was substituted for it. But if Stewart's name was received with amazement, Borie's was received with illuties; but when it became generally known that both he and Stewart had been liberal contributors to the fund for the purchase with the cabinet as a whole; and when Grant proposed that Stewart should be relieved of the legal disabilities which exclude