A Continental Union: Civil Service for the Islands, an Address at the Massachusetts Club, Boston, March 3, 1900 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Continental Union: Civil Service for the Islands, an Address at the Massachusetts Club, Boston, March 3, 1900

A third of a century ago or more, I had the honor to be a guest at this club, which met then, as now, in Young's Hotel. It has ever Since been a pleasure to recall the men of Boston who gathered about the board, interested, as now, in the affairs of the Republic to which they were at once ornament and de fence. Frank Bird sat at the head. Near him was Henry Wilson. John M. Forbes was here, and John A. Andrew, and George S. Boutwell, and George L. Stearns, and many another, eager in those times of trial to seek and know the best thing to be done to serve this country of our pride and love. They were practical business men, true Yankees in the best sense; and they Spent no time then in quarrelling over how we got into our trouble. Their one concern was how to get out, to the greatest advantage of the country.

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