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HISTORICAL ESSAYS


BY
JAMES FORD RHODES, LL.D., D.Litt.

Author of the _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877_


New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1909


_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1909,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1909.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




PREFACE


In offering to the public this volume of Essays, all but two of which
have been read at various places on different occasions, I am aware that
there is some repetition in ideas and illustrations, but, as the dates
of their delivery and previous publication are indicated, I am letting
them stand substantially as they were written and delivered.

I am indebted to my son, Daniel P. Rhodes, for a literary revision of
these Essays; and I have 