Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Vol. 1: Federalist, 1765-1848
IN the following pages I have attempted to describe the life of a man of vigorous and fascinating personality, who was born in Boston ten years before the Revolution com menced, who entered national politics during Washing ton's second administration, who was a leader in the ih teresting movement that culminated in the Hartford Convention of 1814, and who lived to take a part in the presidential campaign of 1848. Harrison Gray Otis was not a great statesman, but rather a typical representative of that political and social organization which has passed into history under the name of the Federal or Federalist party. This fact alone has made his biography worth writing from a historical point of View. I have endeavored therefore, not only to relate the events of his life, but critically to describe his ideas, his feelings, and his preju dices, and to discover the motives guiding his action in the political crises of his day. I have not confined myself, however, to political biography, for, in addition to being a politician, Otis was an orator and a lawyer of the very first rank, a leader in social life, and a man whose person ality did much to in?uence the community in which he lived.
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