Marse Henry

Marse Henry

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Title: Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography
Author: Henry Watterson
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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 Ambrosian?--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 Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck

Chapter the
Twenty-Seventh
The Profession of Journalism--Newspapers and Editors in America--Bennett, Greeley and Raymond--Forney and Dana--The Education of a Journalist

Chapter the
Twenty-Eighth
Bullies and Braggarts--Some Kentucky Illustrations--The Old Galt House--The Throckmortons--A Famous Sugeon--"Old Hell's Delight"

Chapter the
Twenty-Ninth
About Political Conventions, State and National--"Old Ben Butler"--His Appearance as a Trouble-Maker in the Democratic National Convention of 1892--Tarifa and the Tariff--Spain as a Frightful Example

Chapter the
Thirtieth
The Makers of the Republic--Lincoln, Jefferson, Clay and Webster--The Proposed League of Nations--The Wilsonian Incertitude--The "New Freedom"

Chapter the
Thirty-First
The Age of Miracles--A Story of Franklin Pierce--Simon Suggs Billy Sunday--Jefferson Davis and Aaron Burr--Certain Constitutional Shortcomings

Chapter the
Thirty-Second
A War Episode--I Meet