n his mode of attaining them. The hero of
this story comes fully up to the standard thus indicated. His career has
been a romance. Born of parents of small means but of excellent
character and repute; and bred and nurtured in the midst of some of the
wildest and grandest scenery in the rugged county of St. Lawrence,
close by the "Thousand Isles," where New York best proves her right to
be called the Empire State through the stamp of royalty on her hills and
streams--under the shadow of such surroundings as these, my subject
attained maturity, with no opportunities for culture except those he
made for himself. Yet he became possessed of an education eminently
useful, essentially practical and calculated to establish just such
habits of self-reliance and decision as afterwards proved chiefly
instrumental in his success. Glazier had a fixed ambition to rise. He
felt that the task would be difficult of accomplishment--that he must be
not only the architect, but the builder of his own fortunes; and, as the
statue grows beneath the sculptor's hand to perfect contour from the
unshapely block of marble, so prosperity came to Captain Glazier only
after he had cut and chiseled away at the hard surface of inexorable
circumstance, and moulded therefrom the statue of his destiny.

J. A. O.
Philadelphia, _June 14th_, 1880.

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TO
THE MEMORY OF

ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT,

WHOSE SWORD,

AND TO THAT OF

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,

WHOSE PEN,

Have so Nobly Illustrated the Valor and Genius of their Country:

THE AUTHOR,

In a Spirit of Profound Admiration for

THE RENOWNED SOLDIER,

And of Measureless Gratitude to

THE IMMORTAL WRITER,

Dedicates This Book.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN OF THE GLAZIER FAMILY.

Lineage of Willard Glazier.--A good stock.--Oliver Glazier at the
Battle of Bunker Hill.--The home of honest industry.--The Coronet