CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| INTRODUCTION | ix | |
| PRELIMINARY NOTE | xii | |
| BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | xiii | |
| I | Incidents of my Early Life | 1 |
| II | Life as a Store-boy and Clerk | 20 |
| III | Changes and Progress | 26 |
| IV | Schools and School-keeping | 31 |
| V | Groton in 1835 | 33 |
| VI | Groton in 1835—Continued | 40 |
| VII | Beginnings in Business | 47 |
| VIII | First Experience in Politics | 55 |
| IX | The Election of 1840 | 59 |
| X | Massachusetts Men in the Forties | 69 |
| XI | The Election of 1842, and the Dorr Rebellion | 82 |
| XII | The Legislature of 1847 | 94 |
| XIII | Legislative Session of 1848—Funeral of John Quincy Adams | 102 |
| XIV | The Legislature of 1849 | 107 |
| XV | Massachusetts Politics and Massachusetts Politicians, 1850-51 and 1852 | 114 |
| XVI | Acton Monument | 128 |
| XVII | Sudbury Monument | 160 |
| XVIII | Louis Kossuth | 184 |
