Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs/Volume 1

by George Sewall Boutwell

 

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
XIX	The Coalition and the State Constitutional Convention of 1853	216
XX	The Year 1854	236
XXI	Organization of the Republican Party in Massachusetts in 1855, and the Events Preceding the War	246
XXII	As Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education	256
XXIII	Phi Beta Kappa Address at Cambridge	262
XXIV	The Peace Convention of 1861	268
XXV	The Opening of the War	284
XXVI	The Military Commission of 1862 and General Fremont	293
XXVII	Organization of the Internal Revenue System in the United States	303

From a photograph by Purdy, of Boston. Copyright, 1896.

Reminiscences of

Sixty Years

in Public Affairs

by George S. Boutwell

Governor of Massachusetts,	1851-1852
Representative in Congress,	1863-1869
Secretary of the Treasury,	1869-1873
Senator from Massachusetts,	1873-1877

etc., etc.

Volume One

New York
McClure, Phillips & Co.
Mcmii

Copyright, 1902, by
McClure, Phillips & Co.

Published May, 1902. N.

REMINISCENCES

OF

Sixty Years in Public Affairs

VOLUME I