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Title: Political Recollections
1840 to 1872

Author: George W. Julian

Release Date: October 11, 2007 [EBook #22959]

Language: English

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Names have been corrected. "Indianians" changed to "Indianans".

LoC call number: E415.7.J9 1969

POLITICAL RECOLLECTIONS

1840 to 1872.

BY
GEORGE W. JULIAN.

MNEMOSYNE PUBLISHING CO., INC.
MIAMI, FLORIDA
1969

Originally Published in Chicago 1884

COPYRIGHT
By JANSEN, McCLURG & CO.,
A. D. 1883.

First Mnemosyne reprinting 1969
Reprinted from a copy in the
Fisk University Library Negro Collection
Copyright (C)1969 Mnemosyne Publishing Co., Inc. Miami, Florida
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
78-83885

PREFACE.

The following chapters are devoted mainly to facts and incidents
connected with the development of anti-slavery politics from the
year 1840 to the close of the work of Reconstruction which followed
the late civil war. Other topics, however, are occasionally noticed,
while I have deemed it proper to state my own attitude and course
of action respecting various public questions, and to refer more
particularly to the political strifes of my own State. In doing
this, I have spoken freely of conspicuous personalities in connection
with their public action, or their peculiar relations to myself;
but my aim has been to deal fairly and state only the truth, while
striving to weave into my story some reminiscences of the men and
events of by-gone times, which may interest the reader. In the
endeavor to elucidate the orderly progress of anti-slavery opinions
and their translation into organized action, I have summarized and
re-stated many of the familiar facts of current American politics
during the period embraced; but I hope I have also made a slight
contribution to the sources of history bearing upon a world-famous
movement, touching which we should "gather up the fragments that
nothing be lost."

G. W. J.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.