Recollections of Forty Years in the House Volume I

Recollections of Forty Years in the House Volume I
John Sherman, american republican representative and senator from Ohio (1823-1900)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK
-02- PREFACE
-03- ANCESTRY OF THE SHERMAN FAMILY
-04- MY BOYHOOD DAYS AND EARLY LIFE
-05- OHIO, ITS HISTORY AND RESOURCES
-06- ADMISSION TO THE BAR AND EARLY POLITICAL LIFE
-07- EARLY DAYS IN CONGRESS
-08- BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
-09- RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1857
-10- EXCITING SCENES IN CONGRESS
-11- LAST DAYS OF THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION
-12- THE BEGINNING OF LINCOLN'S FIRST ADMINISTRATION
-13- SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FOR THE WAR
-14- PASSAGE OF THE LEGAL TENDER ACT IN 1862
-15- ABOLISHMENT OF THE STATE BANKS
-16- LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
-17- A MEMORABLE SESSION OF CONGRESS
-18- ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
-19- INDEBTEDNESS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1865
-20- THREE MONTHS IN EUROPE
-21- IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON
-22- THE FORTIETH CONGRESS
-23- BEGINNING OF GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION
-24- OUR COINAGE BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR
-25- SOME EVENTS IN MY PRIVATE LIFE
-26- THE PANIC OF 1873 AND ITS RESULTS
-27- BILL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS
-28- RESUMPTION ACT RECEIVED WITH DISFAVOR
-29- MY CONFIDENCE IN THE SUCCESS OF RESUMPTION
-30- THE HAYES-TILDEN PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST
-31- I BEGIN MY DUTIES AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
-32- POLICY OF THE HAYES ADMINISTRATION