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LOWELL, JAMES EUSSELL. 



bers of Congress will prevent the efforts now being 

 made by the Democratic members of that body to 

 defeat or suspend the operation of that wise measure. 



We are opposed to all monopolies and all trusts. 



The revenue amendment, which has been submitted 

 by a Democratic Legislature to the people of the State, 

 presents questions of grave importance, involving 

 financial, economical, and moral considerations. Fully 

 recognizing that it is the right and the duty of every 

 voter to determine these questions as his judgment 

 and conscience may dictate, the Kepublicans of 

 Louisiana declare that, in sympathy with the senti- 

 ment of the Federal Administration and of the Repub- 

 lican party of the nation, they are opposed to *any 

 measure having for its object the legalizing of any 

 form of gambling 



Resolved, That we here declare white supremacy, 

 as an article of party faith, to be rank political heresy, 

 destructive of the rule of the majority. 



We demand the fullest protection of the right of 

 free speech and public discussion, without fear of 

 peril to person or estate. 



We denounce lynching as unjustifiable homicide, 

 and demand a judicial trial of all offenders against 

 the law. 



We demand the repeal of all caste or class legisla- 

 lation, and particularly of the separate-car law, 

 which is here declared a blot on our statute books 

 and a breeder of discord and turmoil among its 

 citizens. 



Delegates to the Republican National Conven- 

 tion of 1892 were elected at this time, and a reso- 

 lution recommending them to vote for the re- 

 nomination of President Harrison was adopted. 

 The election will take place in April, 1892. 



LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, an Ameri- 

 can poet and essayist born in Cambridge, Mass., 

 Feb. 22, 1819; died there Aug. 12, 1891. It 

 seems more than usually worth while to take a 

 glance at Mr. Lowell's ancestry, for he inherited 

 traits from each progenitor, making more ap- 

 parent use than can often be traced of the varied 

 and interesting material which it was his happy 

 fortune to bring into an environment that was 

 also exceptionally fortunate. The family was 

 descended, in this country, from Percival Lowell, 

 a merchant, who came from Bristol, England, to 

 Roxbury, Mass., in 1639. John, son of Percival, 

 was the earliest minister of Newburyport, where 

 he was settled from 1726 to 1767. His son John 

 was graduated at Harvard College in 1760, and 

 admitted to the bar in 1762. In 1776 he repre- 

 sented Newburyport in the Provincial Assembly, 

 and was an officer of militia. He removed to 

 Boston in 1777, and was a legislator from that 

 city in 1778. In 1780 he was a delegate to the 

 convention that framed the Constitution of 

 Massachusetts, serving on the committee that 

 drafted that instrument. He secured the inser- 

 tion into it of the clause " all men are born free 

 and equal," which he believed, if accepted, 

 would cause the legal abolition of slavery in the 

 State. The Supreme Court upheld his position, 

 and slavery was declared abolished. In 1772-'73 

 he was a member of the Continental Congress, 

 and was appointed by that body one of three 

 judges for the trial of appeals from courts of ad- 

 miralty. In 1789 he was made United States 

 judge of the district of Massachusetts, and in 

 1801 chief justice of the First Circuit, which in- 

 cluded Maine\ New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 

 and Rhode Island. He was one of the founders 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 and a poem or an oration was an occasional 



episode of his busy life. His son John was 

 graduated at Harvard, studied law, traveled in 

 Europe, and returned in 1806 to devote himself 

 to literature, especially to controversial political 

 and religious writing. He attacked the sup- 

 porters of the War of 1812 with great skill and 

 severity. Edward Everett said of him : " He 

 possessed colloquial powers of the highest order 

 and a flow of unstudied eloquence never sur- 

 passed, and rarely, as with him, united with the 

 command of an accurate, elegant, and logical 

 pen." Among his pamphlets the following titles 

 are suggestive : " Peace without Dishonor, War 

 without Hope" ; " Mr. Madison's War a Dis- 

 passionate Inquiry into the Reasons alleged by 

 Madison for declaring r.n Offensive and Ruinous 

 War with Great Britain " ; " Are you a Christian 

 or a Calvinist?" He was an ardent lover of 

 nature, and was foremost in aiding the agricult- 

 ural and horticultural interests of the State 

 Another son of Judge John Lowell was Francis, 

 who was graduated at Harvard College in 1793, 

 and became a merchant in Newburyport. In 

 1810 he visited England, and remained for three 

 years. On his return he introduced cotton 

 manufacture into the United States. He was 

 principally instrumental in having inserted into 

 the tariff act of 1816 the clause that imposed a 

 duty on cotton fabrics. Lowell, Mass., which 

 he had planned, was named for him. Another 

 son of Judge John Lowell was Charles, father 

 of James Russell. Charles was graduated at 

 Harvard College in 1800, and studied law, but 

 abandoned its practice for that of theology. He 

 spent two years in Edinburgh, studying, trav- 

 eled on the Continent, and after his return was 

 settled over the West Unitarian Church in Bos- 

 ton, a place which he held until his death, at 

 the age of seventy-nine. Failing health often 

 compelled him to seek rest and change, and he 

 traveled extensively in Europe. He was an 

 eloquent and fervid orator, a strong opponent 

 of slavery, and a writer on questions of the day. 

 He married a sister of Robert Traill Spence, . 

 of the United States navy. When Spence, at 

 nineteen years of age, was serving under De- 

 catur on a captured Tripolitan gunboat, she was 

 blown up by a hot shot sent through her maga- 

 zine. After the explosion, with her stern blown 

 to pieces and under water, Spence kept on load- 

 ing and firing the gun he had charge of. Finally, 

 with his crew of eleven survivors, he ordered 

 three cheers, and, sitting on the piece, waving 

 his cap, he went down with the wreck. They 

 were rescued, and he lived to repeat his valorous 

 conduct. He was made lieutenant and master- 

 commander in quick succession, and at the age 

 of twenty-seven became past captain. He was 

 commended for his manoeuvre in obstructing 

 the British fleet off Baltimore. In 1822, as 

 senior American naval officer in the West In- 

 dies, he issued the protest against Francisco 

 Morales, who had threatened death to Ameri- 

 cans on the Spanish main, which was effective 

 in preventing outrage and maintaining the 

 honor of the flag. Through his mother, James 

 Russell Lowell seems to have inherited his 

 .purest imaginative strain and his sense of hu- 

 mor. While it almost seems, when we read, as 

 if we could point out the special ancestor from 

 whom he took the cue for this or that act of his 



