. The life and letters of Roscoe Conkling : orator, statesman, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROSCOE CONKLING, ORATOR, STATESMAN, ADVOCATE. ALFRED R:^0NKLING, PH. B., LL. B. 489575 NEW YORK: CHARLES X. WEBSTER & COMPANY. 1889, Copyrighted, 1889, By ALFRED R. CONKLING. {All rig Ait reserved.) PKSss or Jenkins & McCowak,SJ4-228 Centre St. This Volume is respectfully dedicated to thePeople of New York, who conferred upan ROSCOE CONKLING the unusttal bouor of three successive elections to theSenate of the United States. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART FIRST. CHAPTER I. I635-1829. PAGE Geneal


. The life and letters of Roscoe Conkling : orator, statesman, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROSCOE CONKLING, ORATOR, STATESMAN, ADVOCATE. ALFRED R:^0NKLING, PH. B., LL. B. 489575 NEW YORK: CHARLES X. WEBSTER & COMPANY. 1889, Copyrighted, 1889, By ALFRED R. CONKLING. {All rig Ait reserved.) PKSss or Jenkins & McCowak,SJ4-228 Centre St. This Volume is respectfully dedicated to thePeople of New York, who conferred upan ROSCOE CONKLING the unusttal bouor of three successive elections to theSenate of the United States. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART FIRST. CHAPTER I. I635-1829. PAGE Genealogy 1-8 CHAPTER n. 1829-1850. The Boyhood of Roscoe Conkling 9-18 CHAPTER HI. 1850-1853. The Young Lawyer 19-41 CHAPTER IV. 1853-1858. Legal Practice and Local Politics 42-60 CHAPTER V. 1858-1859. Mr. Conkling as Mayor 61-73 CHAPTER VLAugust, 1858—April, is Elected to Congress — Unpublished Correspondence be-tween Mr. Conkling and Thomas Corwin, of Ohio 74-90 CHAPTER Vn. 1859-1861. His First Term in Congress—Extracts from Speeches on thePowers of


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