Reminiscences of a Country Politician

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Country Politician: With Frontispiece PortraitBefore seeing anything more of English Elections, I passed some years in America, and at a Presidential Election was surprised to find the shrewd Americans behaving like a lot of big babies. Being in Chicago when Abe Lincoln was running for President, I attended a mass meeting in an enormous wooden building that had been run up for the occasion. An effigy of Lincoln was carried in shoulder high, amidst acclamations and tears. The President to be was figured seated on a log into which he was driving wedges with energy disproportioned to the effect. In England such an absurd sight would have been greeted with roars of laughter, but the spectators took it quite seriously, though a more childish exhibition it would be hard to imagine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.