Biography Of Hon Fernando Wood

Author : E. Hutchinson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331196662
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book A Model Mayor written by E. Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Model Mayor: Early Life, Congressional Career, and Triumphant Municipal Administration of Hon. Fernando Wood; Mayor of the City of New York; Presenting His Public Speeches and Messages, and the Principles on Which His Government Is Founded In this age of moral obtuseness, political corruption, and servile, cringing timidity of officials before vice and crime, it is cheering to know that there is occasionally one who, independently and fearlessly, wields the sceptre of power which is placed in his hands, and, with full determination to conquer, grapples with every form of iniquity, making law, order and virtue triumphant. It is especially gratifying, in a great city like this, where lawlessness, immorality, bloodshed and murder have been almost unimpeded, to see a magistrate rise above the selfish desire to aggrandize himself, and scorn to pander to the corrupt desires of his constituents. The manner in which the lowest dregs of society in New York, composed in part of the scum of Europe's prisons and almshouses, have outraged all decency and good order, not only in the foulest dens of infamy and amid the darkness of midnight, but in our fashionable streets and in open daylight, calls for an outburst of indignation from every moral and religious man. It nails for more; it demands action - at the polls, by petition, and especially by sustaining those in. authority who dare to face the terrific storm which threatens to overwhelm them at every step they take in wrenching the dagger from the hand of the assassin, in rescuing female virtue from the grasp of the debauchee, and in endeavoring to disperse the dark and threatening clouds of moral contamination which almost entirely hide from our view the light of morality and religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.