Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs/Volume 2

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CONTENTS

Page
XXVIII Service in Congress 1
XXIX Incidents in the Civil War 17
XXX The Amendments to the Constitution 36
XXXI Investigations Following the Civil War 55
XXXII Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 96
XXXIII The Treasury Department in 1869 125
XXXIV The Mint Bill and the “Crime of 1873” 150
XXXV Black Friday—September 24, 1869 164
XXXVI An Historic Sale of United States Bonds in England 183
XXXVII General Grant’s Administration 203
XXXVIII General Grant as a Statesman 225
XXXIX Reminiscences of Public Men 237
XL Blaine and Conkling and the Republican Convention of 1880 260
XLI From 1875 to 1895 277
XLII The Last of the Ocean Slave Traders 289
XLII Mr. Lincoln as an Historical Personage 300
XLIV Speech on Columbus 314
XLV Imperialism as a Public Policy 323
INDEX 347


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