OF

RECENT TIMES.

AUTHOR OF

BY

JAMES PARTON,

"LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON," "LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR," LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN," ETC.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

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.