Marse Henry

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Title: Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography
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[Illustration: Henry Watterson (About 1908)]
"Marse Henry"
An Autobiography
By
Henry Watterson

TO MY FRIEND ALEXANDER KONTA WITH AFFECTIONATE
SALUTATION
"Mansfield," 1919
A mound of earth a little higher graded: Perhaps upon a stone a
chiselled name: A dab of printer's ink soon blurred and faded-- And
then oblivion--that--that is fame!
--HENRY WATTERSON

Contents
Chapter the
First
I Am Born and Begin to Take Notice--John Quincy Adams and
Andrew Jackson--James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce--Jack Dade and
"Beau Hickman"--Old Times in Washington
Chapter the
Second
Slavery the Trouble-Maker--Break-Up of the Whig Party and Rise of
the Republican--The Key--Sickle's Tragedy--Brooks and Sumner--Life
at Washington in the Fifties
Chapter the
Third
The Inauguration of Lincoln--I Quit Washington and Return to
Tennessee--A Run-a-bout with Forest--Through the Federal Lines and
a Dangerous Adventure--Good Luck at Memphis
Chapter the
Fourth
I Go to London--Am Introduced to a Notable Set--Huxley, Spencer,
Mill and Tyndall--Artemus Ward Comes to Town--The Savage Club
Chapter the
Fifth
Mark Twain--The Original of Colonel Mulberry Sellers--The "Earl of

Durham"--Some Noctes Ambrosianæ--A Joke on Murat Halstead
Chapter the
Sixth
Houston and Wigfall of Texas--Stephen A. Douglas--The Twaddle
about Puritans and Cavaliers--Andrew Johnson and John C.
Breckenridge
Chapter the
Seventh
An Old Newspaper Rookery--Reactionary Sectionalism in Cincinnati
and Louisville--The Courier-Journal
Chapter the
Eighth
Feminism and Woman Suffrage--The Adventures in Politics and
Society--A Real Heroine
Chapter the
Ninth
Dr. Norvin Green--Joseph Pulitzer--Chester A. Arthur--General
Grant--The Case of Fitz-John Porter
Chapter the
Tenth
Of Liars and Lying--Woman Suffrage and Feminism--The Professional
Female--Parties, Politics, and Politicians in America

Chapter the
Eleventh
Andrew Johnson--The Liberal Convention in 1872--Carl Schurz--The
"Quadrilateral"--Sam Bowles, Horace White and Murat Halstead--A
Queer Composite of Incongruities
Chapter the
Twelfth
The Ideal in Public Life--Politicians, Statesmen and Philosophers-- The
Disputed Presidency in 1876--The Persona and Character of Mr.
Tilden--His Election and Exclusion by a Partisan Tribunal
Chapter the
Thirteenth
Charles Eames and Charles Sumner-Schurzand Lamar--I Go to
Congress--A Heroic Kentuckian--Stephen Foster and His Songs--Music
and Theodore Thomas
Chapter the
Fourteenth
Henry Adams and the Adams Family--John Hay and Frank
Mason--The Three Mousquetaires of Culture--Paris--"The
Frenchman"--The South of France
Chapter the
Fifteenth
Still the Gay Capital of France--Its Environs--Walewska and De

Morny--Thackeray in Paris--A Pension Adventure
Chapter the
Sixteenth
Monte Carlo--The European Shrine of Sport and Fashion--Apocryphal
Gambling Stories--Leopold, King of the Belgians--An Able and
Picturesque Man of Business
Chapter the
Seventeenth
A Parisian Pension--The Widow of Walewska--Napoleon's
Daughter-in-Law--The Changeless--A Moral and Orderly City
Chapter the
Eighteenth
The Grover Cleveland Period--President Arthur and Mr. Blaine--John
Chamberlin--The Decrees of Destiny
Chapter the
Nineteenth
Mr. Cleveland in the White House--Mr. Bayard in the Department of
State--Queer Appointments to Office--The One-Party Power--The End
of North and South Sectionalism
Chapter the
Twentieth
The Real Grover Cleveland--Two Clevelands Before and After
Marriage--A Correspondence and a Break of Personal Relations

Chapter the
Twenty-First
Stephen Foster, the Song-Writer--A Friend Comes to the Rescu His
Originality--"My Old Kentucky Home" and the "Old Folks at
Home"--General Sherman and "Marching Through Georgia"
Chapter the
Twenty-Second
Theodore Roosevelt--His Problematic Character--He Offers Me an
Appointment--His Bonhomie and Chivalry--Proud of His Rebel Kin
Chapter the
Twenty-Third
The Actor and the Journalist--The Newspaper and the State--Joseph
Jefferson--His Personal and Artistic Career--Modest Character and
Religious Belief
Chapter the
Twenty-Fourth
The Writing of Memoirs--Some Characteristics of Carl Shurz--Sam
Bowles--Horace White and the Mugwumps
Chapter the
Twenty-Fifth
Every Trade Has Its Tricks--I Play One on William McKinley--Far
Away Party Politics and Political Issues

Chapter the
Twenty-Sixth
A Libel on Mr. Cleveland--His Fondness for Cards--Some Poker
Stories--The "Senate Game"--Tom