CHASE
CHAPTER XX
ADIN THAYER
CHAPTER XXI
POLITICAL CORRUPTION
CHAPTER XXII
CREDIT MOBILIER
CHAPTER XXIII
THE SANBORN CONTRACTS
CHAPTER XXIV
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER
CHAPTER XXV
BELKNAP IMPEACHMENT
CHAPTER XXVI
ELECTORAL COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXVII
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1876
CHAPTER XXVIII
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1880
CHAPTER XXIX
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1884
CHAPTER XXX
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1888
CHAPTER XXXI
SATURDAY CLUB
CHAPTER XXXII
THE WORCESTER FIRE SOCIETY
APPENDIX I.
APPENDIX II.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY YEARS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
Everybody who reads this book through will wonder that a man
who ought to be able to tell so much has really told so little.
I have known personally and quite intimately, or have known
intelligent and trustworthy persons who have known personally
and quite intimately, many men who have had a great share
in the history of this country and in its literature for a
hundred and thirty years.
In my younger days there were among my kindred and near friends
persons who knew the great actors of the Revolutionary time
and the time which followed till I came to manhood myself.
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