On the record
The President, with great moral courage and keen-sighted wisdom, met the crisis of 1837 with an admirable bearing.
Source
gutenberg.orgDe Alexander: “The President, with great moral courage and keen-sighted wisdom, met the crisis of 1837 with an admirable bearing.”
Editor's note · Context
Alexander praises the President's moral courage during the economic crisis of 1837.
Share
More from De Alexander
He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.
Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the senate and senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.
More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.
In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....
Other voices in this conversation
