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ZACHARIAH CHANDLER:
AN OUTLINE SKETCH
OF
His Life and Public Services.
BY
THE DETROIT POST AND TRIBUNE.
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY LETTER
FROM
JAMES G. BLAINE, OF MAINE.
O fall'n at length that tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
—Tennyson.
DETROIT:
THE POST AND TRIBUNE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
- R. D. S. TYLER & CO., DETROIT.
- CHARLES DREW, NEW YORK.
- J. M. OLCOTT, INDIANAPOLIS.
- TYLER & CO., CHICAGO.
- WM. H. THOMPSON & CO., BOSTON.
1880.
Entered According To Act of Congress, in the Year 1879, by
THE DETROIT POST AND TRIBUNE,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Electrotyped by
A. W. Habbin, Detroit.
PRESS OF
WRIGHTON & CO.,
CINCINNATI, O.
TO
THE REPUBLICANS OF MICHIGAN,
Who so Long Upheld, and Who were Implicitly Trusted by,
ZACHARIAH CHANDLER,
THIS RECORD OF HIS LIFE IS
DEDICATED.
It is stated elsewhere that this work is written "By TheDetroit Post and Tribune." Unusual as this form ofannouncement is on the title-pages of books, there certainlymay be an authorial as well as an editorial impersonality;in this case the phrase succinctly expresses the fact, namely, thatthe volume represents the joint labors of the staff of The Postand Tribune, alike in the collection and the treatment of itsmaterial.
While its preparation has been almost wholly a matter oforiginal research, such use as was necessary has been made of historicaldata contained in "The Centennial History of Bedford,N. H.," published in 1851, in Horace Greeley's "American Conflict,"and in Henry Wilson's "History of the Rise and Fall ofthe Slave Power."
Needed information has been furnished by those intimatelyconnected with Mr. Chandler, but the work has not been submittedto their revision, and they are not responsible for theform of the narrative, nor for the personal estimate it embodies.
This book presents a sketch of the life and the publicservices of a remarkable man. It has been written from thestandpoint of political sympathy, and w