Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs/Volume 2

by George Sewall Boutwell

 

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