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Title: History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

Author: Wiliam H. Barnes

Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24596]

Language: English

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HISTORY

OF THE

THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

By WILLIAM H. BARNES, A.M.,
AUTHOR OF "THE BODY POLITIC."

_WITH PORTRAITS._

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
327 TO 335 PEARL STREET.
1868.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
WILLIAM H. BARNES,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the District of Columbia.

PREFACE.

The history of the Thirty-Ninth Congress is a sequel to that of the
Rebellion. This having been overthrown, it remained for Congress to
administer upon its effects. It depended upon the decisions of
Congress whether the expected results of our victories should be
realized or lost.

Now that the work of the Thirty-Ninth Congress stands forth complete,
people naturally desire to know something of the manner in which the
rough material was shaped into order, and the workmanship by which the
whole was "fitly joined together." It can not be said of this fabric
of legislation that