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The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States, by Wiliam H. Barnes This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Author: Wiliam H. Barnes Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24596] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS *** Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. In some cases, part of the illustration's captions were illegible.] [Illustration: Hon. Schuyler Colfax.] 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
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