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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Famous Americans of Recent Times, by James Parton 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.net Title: Famous Americans of Recent Times Author: James Parton Release Date: June 29, 2004 [eBook #12771] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAMOUS AMERICANS OF RECENT TIMES*** E-text prepared by Curtis A. Weyant, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team FAMOUS AMERICANS OF RECENT TIMES By JAMES PARTON Author of "Life of Andrew Jackson," "Life and Times of Aaron Burr," "Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin," etc. 1867 [Illustration: J.C. Calhoun] CONTENTS HENRY CLAY DANIEL WEBSTER JOHN C. CALHOUN JOHN RANDOLPH STEPHEN GIRARD AND HIS COLLEGE JAMES GORDON BENNETT AND THE NEW YORK HERALD CHARLES GOODYEAR HENRY WARD BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH COMMODORE VANDERBILT THEODOSIA BURR JOHN JACOB ASTOR NOTE The papers contained in this volume were originally published in the _North American Review_, with four exceptions. Those upon THEODOSIA BURR and JOHN JACOB ASTOR first appeared in _Harper's Magazine_; that upon COMMODORE VANDERBILT, in the _New York Ledger_; and that upon HENRY WARD BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH, in the _Atlantic Monthly_. HENRY CLAY. The close of the war removes the period preceding it to a great distance from us, so that we can judge its public men as though we were the "posterity" to whom they sometimes appealed. James Buchanan still haunts the neighborhood of Lancaster, a living man, giving and receiving dinners, paying his taxes, and taking his accustomed exercise; but as an historical figure he is as complete as Bolingbroke or Walpole. It is not merely that his work is done, nor that the results of his work are apparent; but the thing upon which he wrought, by their relation to which he and his contemporaries are to be estimated, has perished. The statesmen of his day, we can all now plainly see, inherited from the founders of the Republic a problem impossible of solution, with which some of them wrestled manfully, others mea
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