WITH INCIDENTS, ANECDOTES, AND ROMANTIC EVENTS

CONNECTED WITH HIS EARLY LIFE;

CONTAINING ALSO HIS SPEECHES AND IMPORTANT HISTORICAL

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO HIS LATER YEARS.

“Dare to do right, and trust the consequences to Infinite Wisdom."

J. G. BLAINE, 1855.

BY
RUSSELL H. CONWELL,

AUTHOR OP "LIFE OF PRESIDENT HAYES," "LIFE OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD," "Ilow
AND WHY THE CRINESE EMIGRATE," "HISTORY OF THE GREAT FIRE IN Boston,"
"HISTORY OF THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN," "BIOGRAPHY OF GIANOVELLO

THE WALDENSIAX HERO," "LIFX OF BAYARD TAYLOR." &c., &c., &c.

ILLUSTRATED.

DOSTON:
B. B. RUSSELL.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIRDARY
APR. 4 1963

COPYRIGHT, 1884.
E. C. ALLEN & CO.

montin DEDICATION. Guam

TO THE YOUNG MEN OF OUR GREAT NATION,
WHO NOW PRESS FORWARD WITH SUCH BOLDNESS AND VIGOR

INTO THE VACANCIES WHICH EVERY YEAR NOW
MAKES IN THE RANKS OF THOSE NOBLE MEN WHO

STOOD SO TRUE AND FIRM THROUGH THE
MOMENTOUS EVENTS OF THE GENERATION PASSING AWAY,
I REVERENTLY DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

R. H. C.