Recollections of a busy life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery ; to which are added miscellanies ...
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1. Verfasser: Greeley, Horace 1811-1872 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Ford 1868
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Beschreibung:A sample of the Scotch-Irish. -- Our folks at Londonderry. -- "The times that tried men's souls". -- Rural New England fifty years ago. -- My early school-days. -- Adieu to New Hampshire. -- Westhaven. -- My apprenticeship. -- My faith. -- A year by Lake Erie. -- My first experiences in New York. -- Getting into business. -- Temperance in all things. -- Politics. -- Play-days. -- Triumph. -- Log-cabin days. -- The Tribune. -- Socialism. -- Socialistic efforts. -- Harry Clay. -- Margaret Fuller. -- Beggars and borrowers. -- Dramatic memories. -- "Old Zack". -- Congress ; Mileage. -- Congress as it was. -- Glamour. -- Lake Superior ; Mining ; Chicago ; The prairies. -- The great senators ; The Comprise of 1850. -- Libels and libel-suits. -- Europe ; The World Exposition. -- The dissolution of the Whig Party. -- The slavery controversy. -- The new era in politics. -- My farm. -- My farming. -- "Seward, Weed, and Greeley". -- Europe revisited ; Paris ; Switzerland. -- Two days in jail. -- "The Banks Congress" ; The long contest for speaker. -- Fremont ; Buchanan ; Douglas. -- A ride across the plains. -- The Rocky Mountains ; The Great Basin. -- Utah ; Nevada. -- The Sierra Nevada ; The Yosemite ; The big trees. -- The future of California. -- The presidential election of 1860. -- Secession ; How confronted. -- Our Civil War ; Actual and possible. -- Abraham Lincoln. -- Jefferson Davis. -- Authorship ; Writing history. -- My dead. -- Miscellanies. -- Literature as a vocation. -- Poets and poetry. -- Reforms and reformers. -- The grounds of protection. -- Sundry lecturing reminiscences: A day's ride in Maine ; A ride across the Alleghanies ; A night-ride across the prairies ; A winter flood in Illinois. -- Marriage and divorce: a discussion between Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen
Beschreibung:XV, [17] - 624 S. Ill. 23 cm

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