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Last week the words of a revolutionary statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known as the Liquor Prohibition Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote...
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KEEPING THE PEACE ? Gouverneur Morris ? Scribners ($2.00). Edward Eaton's maternal parent was known in her family as "dear Mother." She was a sweet, soft and pious woman, whose sweetness drove one son to follow the sea, whose softness bred moral degeneracy in another, whose piety did its best to force Edward, an artist of sorts, into the clergy. This jauntily unpleasant book is an attack upon a type of woman to which the term Victorian has often been applied, always inaccurately, since lust, ignorance and bigotry are not the peculiar property of any particular period...
...Married. Gouverneur Morris, famed novelist, to Ruth Wightman, his secretary; at Salinas, Cal., a year ago. The marriage was made public last week when a second ceremony was held just after Mr. Morris had obtained a final decree of divorce from his first wife, Elise Waterbury Morris, in Los Angeles...
...There were two children of this marriage, Eliza, who married Judge Hay of Virginia, and Maria, who married Samuel L. Gouverneur of New York."-James Monroe by Daniel Coit Gilman...