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Published: 2015-07-04
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Excerpt from Essays on Men, Things and Events Historical, Personal and Political: Including Essays on Roscoe Conkling, Thaddeus Stevens, Matthew H. Carpenter, Andrew Johnson, John J. Ingalls, Seargent S. Prentiss, Oliver P. Morton, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Samuel J. Tilden, the Family of Field, Marcus A. Hanna, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin H. H This book is published for the benefit of intelligent boys. My object is to impart to them, so far as I am able, a taste for reading and a thirst for knowledge. There is no more desired blessing than the "reading-habit." It frees us from irksome hours and introduces our understanding to the best and greatest of all ages. In the fullness of time, in the order of nature, youths of today must come to be the future public servants of our great country. To them this book is inscribed, with the admonition. that only the Right ever really succeeds and, in the end, nothing but the Right is popular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.