Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — IWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS; From Lincoln to Carfield.-61-81 [ARTICLE]

IWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS; From Lincoln to Carfield.-61-81

Is the title of a book by James G. Blaine for whieh the people es all parties in this country and the Statesmen of Europa are on the qui vive. , From the universally resognlzed ability of Mr- Blaine as a writer and his actual patticipalon in the stirring scenes of those years, the great work takes front rack in advance a* a standard iuside history of,the momentous events of that most important epoch in oui career us a nation. The work will contain about 1203 pages in two Royal Octavo volumes. In the beginning or - .he first volume there wifi be introductory chapters showing the r mote and immediatr (.auses of the civil war, It will giv* h s icciui t and impartial bisioiy ol Nations! Legislation up >n the grew qu<e «u arising from sevcsMion and ttifr civil war including emancipa. ion. teconstruciion, legal lendei a.id xh s - return to - eeie ne im pMuehment of P q»i< ent Johnson. lh< w jfK of the electoral commission and other important Do nestle and For sign measures. Also, of contemporary administrations. The book puli be inane spicy antkattra-'iiv« .n well ns valuable by skatches of the prom inent leading men in Congi es.-> for tin--20 years included in the history I is conceded ou all .ides I’aut Au. Blaine U the man best qualified to write an inside hi tvry of th.ii period, und hi* book is to be unit-iy no. • partisan. In the sK«iuh-*>. i leading men it is his aim to -Ink th p rtieai iu the historian mid io do -xaet justice to aii. The wo’’k is to be rm • Uulil.-heu with 57 fine t»tr<-4 i-ngruv-lugrt, ii eluded the Pie-id »u. a s U( ,i V’.ve Pre idenis of the period. «m, oeeides i hat es the author 4.7 of iL. pxcmiueoi leaders < f ail it rt rti#e. Tn< re are u'lpt vain te >i r-s - the wo’ k of wnicu our sp <■ m olds mention ut thia ijmr Suffice u <* suy in cuD 'l.ision, that tho wo.ui one that will Or too valuable ,or at. \ citizen in'erest in the progress and the weltart* of his conn ry, n. t > say us < ividzatjoD iiseif io tuink f loing without. ~1. i* undoubtedly o tue gieatest demand and the in, st rapid selling work extant and pe*p e without rejar ito party ?»re sectit lug it for the satisfaction, in their decliu ing years, of a better understanding of our country’s perils and and for the substantial instruct! n of thoew now rising to take their places in the gnidanc# of the “shin of state”. Cxpt. J. A. Burnham is the author* ized agent of the work tor thia locality, and will doubtless reeeivJ that patronage, which the intelligence of this community and the excellence of th# book would naturally lead him or any one to expect.