I dare say that the same causes which excited it may provoke
a similar movement more than once hereafter. But I believe
it will fail as that failed.
I know how prone men are, especially old men, in telling
the story of their lives, to over-estimate the value and the
consequence of the things in which they have taken a part.
But I think I am not extravagant in claiming that the overthrow
of this dangerous delusion was of great value not only to
the Republican Party, but to the cause of religious liberty
in this country, and that the success of the A. P. A. would
have been the destruction of both.
CHAPTER XXX
THE ENGLISH MISSION
I may as well put on record here a matter which I suppose
has never been made public. When in President Hayes's time
Mr. Welsh resigned the English Mission, Mr. Lowell, then in
Spain, was strongly recommended for the place. Mr. Evarts,
Secretary of State, was quite unwilling to have Mr. Lowell
appointed. I fancied that Mr. Evarts might have been influenced
somewhat by his reluctance to appoint a Harvard man. He was
an exceedingly pleasant-natured man, with no bitterness in
him.
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