Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs/Volume 1

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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