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[Illustration: Hon. Schuyler Colfax.]




                         HISTORY

                         OF THE

                  THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS

                         OF THE

                     UNITED STATES.



               By WILLIAM H. BARNES, A.M.,
              AUTHOR OF "THE BODY POLITIC."



                    _WITH PORTRAITS._




                        NEW YORK:
             HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
                327 TO 335 PEARL STREET.
                          1868.




    Entered, according to Act 