The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . WITH A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND ASTATEMENT OF ITS POSITION ON THE GREAT ISSUESOF THE PRESENT DAY — THE PLATFORM OF THEPARTY —THE LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE OF BEN-JAMIN HARRISON —STATISTICS OF ELECTIONS, ETC. By EDWIN C. PIERCE. ILLUSTRATED. PROVIDENCE, R. L: J. A. & R. A. REID, PUBLISHERS. 1888. ENGRAVERS. KILBURN & CROSS, BOSTON, MASS. J. P. MURPHY & CO., . . BOSTON, MASS- ARTISTS. SCHELL & HOGAN, NEW YORK. FRANK MYRICK, BOSTON, MASS. Copyrighted, i8S8,By J. A. & R. A. Reid. PREFACE. There is no more instructive reading than faithful b
The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . WITH A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND ASTATEMENT OF ITS POSITION ON THE GREAT ISSUESOF THE PRESENT DAY — THE PLATFORM OF THEPARTY —THE LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE OF BEN-JAMIN HARRISON —STATISTICS OF ELECTIONS, ETC. By EDWIN C. PIERCE. ILLUSTRATED. PROVIDENCE, R. L: J. A. & R. A. REID, PUBLISHERS. 1888. ENGRAVERS. KILBURN & CROSS, BOSTON, MASS. J. P. MURPHY & CO., . . BOSTON, MASS- ARTISTS. SCHELL & HOGAN, NEW YORK. FRANK MYRICK, BOSTON, MASS. Copyrighted, i8S8,By J. A. & R. A. Reid. PREFACE. There is no more instructive reading than faithful biogra-phies of great men. Every period of the worlds history isrepresented b} a few lives ; and every important event of thatperiod bears some relation to one or more of those lives; andthe spirit of the period is the spirit of those lives. Religion,philosophy, science, government, politics, have very littleattraction for the common reader, or even the majority ofstudents, when treated abstractly ; they are dull, dry
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