Identifier: statesmen00inbroo (find matches)
Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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azealous and untiring collector of books and manu-scripts relating to American history. His house,which in later years became an abode of ele-gant leisure, was stored with rich treasures ofart and literature. In everything that pertainedto American history and to the advancement ofAmerican interests Tilden was an enthusiasticand devoted patriot. His manner in social inter-course was variable. At times he was mysteri-ous and secretive and at other times cordial andfrank to the last degree. Probably very few per-sons were admitted to his closest intimacy, and hedied as he lived, without acquiring any permanenthold on the affections of the whole people. Bythe terms of his will the bulk of a fortune of sev-eral millions was bequeathed to the city of NewYork for the building and maintenance of a greatpublic library. By an unfortunate judicial con-struction of the terms of this will the greater partof his princely benefaction was diverted to theuses of collateral heirs of the Tilden estate.
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James G. Blaine. X. JAMES G. BLAINE. We have seen how the precocious promise ofthe youth of one statesman, Samuel J. Tilden,was amply fulfilled in his maturer years. Butthe historian will say that this was an exceptionto a general rule. Brilliant men have not usuallyevinced much of their brightness in their boy-hood. There is great hope for the dull boy, afterall. James G. Blaine, if not a boy of very com-monplace traits of mental character, certainly wasnot a lad of remarkable promise. When he wasa student at Washington College, in WesternPennsylvania, one who knew him well said ofhim that he was a plain, quiet, good-tempered,studious boy, remarkable for nothing but hislove of reading, and giving no hint of the great-ness of his future career as a statesman. One ofhis college mates has said of him : I knewBlaine at Washington College, he being in thenext class below me. Blaines parents lived atWashington during their sons college course,and on that account the students saw less of Ji

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