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Excerpt from A Secretary of State From Brown, William Learned Marcy an Address: Brotherhood a Poem
It might seem to be presumptuous on my part to undertake to designate the three greatest alumni of Brown University; but, whoever they may be, I venture to claim that the subject of my address to day is entitled to a place among them. In his day and generation, he stood among the foremost men of the country. He barely lost the nomination for the Presidency of the United States, and if nomi nated would have been elected. A few years after his death, his fame suffered the eclipse which befell that of so many able statesmen whose public career ended just prior to the Civil War. The great con ?ict naturally cast into oblivion the men and the measures that immediately preceded it unless they were distinctly identified with the controversies which brought it about. Such was the fate of more than one of the most capable and most eminent leaders Of the old National Democratic Party, and among these was William L. Marcy, the subject of the present address.
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