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Title: Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party; a biography and a history Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Orcutt, William Dana, 1870-1953 Subjects: Burrows, Julius Cæsar, 1837-1915 Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States -- Politics and government 1865- Publisher: New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: own one end of his craft soas to get the other end out of the mud. The Demo-cratic craft is stuck in the mud, and the Liberal-Repub-licans are being used for the same purpose to whichthe steamboat captain put his devout worshipers,and when, if ever, the end for which they are beingused is accomplished, they will be dismissed with anoath as wicked and heartless as was that of the captainof the boat. The overwhelming defeat of the Liberal-Republi-can-Democratic candidate was not due wholly to hisweakness, although this prevented the protest againstthe Republicans from being sufficiently vigorous toimpress the Party with the necessity of immediate andcomplete reform within itself. Public opinion isslow to change, sectional feeling still ran high, andthe Republican Party was continued in power, flushedwith success. Triumph is intoxicating, and refusesto recognize impending disaster. When Grant beganhis second term as President of the United States,Burrows first took his seat in Consfress.

Text Appearing After Image: REPRESENTATIVE B I R R O \\ S 1872 CHAPTER VIn Congress and Out. 1873-1878 IT would be interesting if Burrows had recordedwith undisguised frankness his first impressionsof Congress when he once found himself a member ofthe Lower House. Years before, in the early Penn-sylvania days, after the epoch-making experience oflistening to Daniel Websters speech and before hewas ten years old, he had been discovered mountedon a. stump back of the barn, delivering an oration.The derisive jeers from his brothers hurt his pride butfailed to shake his confidence. I dont care, theembryo statesman reiterated between his sobs ofmortification; some day you will hear my voice in thehalls of Congress. The RepubHcan Party had been, and still was, hisideal. In his campaigning he had exaggerated itsmerits and minimized its weaknesses; and to do thisover and over again inevitably resulted in having thebrief which he presented to the people become well-defined in his own mind. Anticipation had nowturned into

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