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Matthew Lyon to James C. Furman
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Matthew Lyon in Kentucky
Get PDF“Men at some time are masters of their fate: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Thus Shakespeare has the wily Cassius speak, and thus Matthew Lyon must have believed; else he had not contended so fiercely, so incessantly, and so interminably against such adverse circumstances as the average individual would have submitted to sooner or later. Many may have thought so; the facts often indicated so; yet never in a true sense was Matthew Lyon an underling. His fierce spirit was supreme over material things. Even while an indentured servant he resented and successfully resisted the efforts of his master to direct or control his democratic principles. Suppliant though he was in his later years for political preferment, on account of his financial losses ensuing from a curtailment of our commerce during the Napoleonic wars and our own War of 1812 and by a political defeat resulting from his having opposed the administrative policies which preceded our entrance into that war, yet even in that period of political and financial reverses his restless, forceful pen, schooled in the denunciatory era of the Jefferson-Hamilton party strife, wielded an influence not to be disregarded, even by the new political leaders of the day.
Still, Fate, thwarted by an indomitable spirit in life, may now be exercising her influence, for the conflict that marked the career of this “pugnacious but incorruptible” son of Erin did not cease with his demise. It is with difficulty that one can construct from the conflicting statements concerning his actions and career an approximately accurate account of the most significant events of that career. Such is the task the writer will attempt to perform, dealing chiefly with that period succeeding Lyon’s arrival in Kentucky, where for the second time he entered into the activities essential to the development, on a large scale, of an industrial center in frontier life, and where, with better success and less strife than he had formerly experienced, he re-entered the political arena.
Concerning Lyon’s commercial and political experiences in the West very little has been written save occasional brief articles, often inaccurate and founded more or less on hearsay and tradition. McLaughlin’s very unsatisfactory biographical history of Lyon deals but briefly with his Kentucky career; in Aunt Leanna or Early Scenes in Kentucky and also in Recollections of a Frontier Life, written by Lyon’s youngest daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Roe, primarily in the interest of abolition and Methodism, respectively, are related some things of interest concerning Lyon; but since these are the reminiscences of one far removed in time and space from the scenes and events described, her accounts are not wholly reliable. Other secondary matter is more or less a repetition of the outstanding facts of Lyon’s life for contrary to what might be supposed, Lyon enjoyed in his own day a well-founded national fame. From Lyon’s own writings, found in newspapers and various collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, from county court records, from departmental, national and state documents, and from occasional secondary matter the writer has obtained the facts contained in this thesis.
Certain incidents in Lyon’s early life so strongly influenced his character and his importance that a knowledge of them was considered necessary to an understanding and appreciation of his later life; for this reason Chapters I and II are included
Aspen Leading Edge Podcast, Episode 66: Conversations with Deans: Matthew Lyon
No full textMatthew Lyon, Vice President and Dean at Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law, talks about being part of the origin of this law school and what the benefits are of being a younger law school. He also shares details about the new online, part-time degree program as well as experiential learning.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/edge/1035/thumbnail.jp
Aspen Leading Edge Podcast, Episode 66: Conversations with Deans: Matthew Lyon
No full textMatthew Lyon, Vice President and Dean at Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law, talks about being part of the origin of this law school and what the benefits are of being a younger law school. He also shares details about the new online, part-time degree program as well as experiential learning.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/edge/1035/thumbnail.jp
Matthew Lyon, The Sedition Act, and Freedom of Speech in Federalist America
Get PDFVery little has been written about the political career of Matthew Lyon, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1796 to 1800. Only a few biographies of his life have been written, which has contributed to the general lack of knowledge concerning his political affairs. The purpose of this thesis, then, is to identify Matthew Lyon the man, as well as his time in history, the Federalist Era. Special attention will be dedicated to Lyon’s controversial presence in the U.S. House, his violation of the Sedition Act of 1798, and the status of freedom of speech during the latter part of the Federalist Era. Cluster Bloc analysis will be used in order to ascertain the level of opposition Lyon encountered during his expulsion proceedings, as well as the level of support achieved for the Sedition Act.
Matthew Lyon arrived in America in the 18th Century as an indentured servant from Ireland. After being released from the requirements of his indentured servitude Lyon began a life-long struggle for status and recognition. He was viewed as an outsider who relentlessly fought to become an insider. He attempted to become an insider in Federalist America through business ventures and political exploits. Lyon would eventually own many businesses and factories throughout New England. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War, Lyon believed that he was ideally suited for politics, both local and national. Once in the U.S. House of Representatives he continued his quest for acceptance and recognition through actions largely negative in nature. Expulsion proceedings were put into motion on more than one occasion to oust him from Congress, with the most celebrated cause being a physical altercation with his Federalist enemy Roger Griswold on the House floor.
Lyon believed himself to be a complete Republican. His Federalist enemies saw him as a Republican as well, but for different reasons. In short, the Federalists detested his presence in Congress, and this attitude towards Lyon was reflected in the passage of the Sedition Act, as well as his prosecution for violating the act. After his stormy four years in Congress and his jail sentence, Lyon moved west to Kentucky where he again took up his entrepreneurial and political activities.
Through the use of Cluster Bloc and other primary and secondary sources, the analysis will show that the group of Congressmen who voted in favor of Matthew Lyon’s expulsion will be the same one that voted in support of the Sedition Act, and that the Federalist Era, although not the only period of American History to witness repressive legislation, was embarrassingly intolerant of the First Amendment rights of American citizens
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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