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FAMOUS
American Statesmen
BY
SARAH K. BOLTON
AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "GIRLS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS," "FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS,"
"STORIES FROM LIFE," "FROM HEART,
AND NATURE," ETC.
"A nation has no possessions so valuable as its great men,living or dead."—Hon. John Bigelow.
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
No. 13 Astor Place
Copyright, 1888, by
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
ElectrotypedBy C. J. Peters and Son, Boston.
Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston.
To
THOMAS Y. CROWELL.
Respected as a Publisher
and
Esteemed as a Friend.
PREFACE.
"With the great, one's thoughts and mannerseasily become great; ... what this countrylongs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteractits materialities," says Emerson. Such livesas are sketched in this book are a constant inspiration,both to young and old. They teach Garfield'soft-repeated maxim, that "the genius of success isstill the genius of labor." They teach patriotism—adeeper love for and devotion to America.They teach that life, with some definite and noblepurpose, is worth living.
I have written of Abraham Lincoln, one of ourgreatest and best statesmen, in "Poor Boys WhoBecame Famous," which will explain its omissionfrom this volume.