973.6 5792 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by HENRY B. STANTON, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1 in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Copyright, 1887, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. Printed by Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Co. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. THOUGH no portions of the first and second editions of this work were on sale, they were soon exhausted in supplying calls on me for copies. The requests in numerous newspapers and letters that I would place the book where it could be purchased, amounted almost to a rebuke for my not having done this. In compliance with this desire, I have spent a few weeks in preparing a third edition, which will be issued. and sold by a book-publishing house. The new matter in this third edition makes the volume about two thirds larger than the second edition, and about three times as large as the first. This production is neither a history, a biography, nor an autobiography, but is exactly what it professes to be, namely, some "random recollections" of the writer. It will be well to read it from that point of view. Such value as this draft on my memory may possess is mainly due to the fact that in describing events and men I have usually told only what I personally knew of them; and, perhaps better than all, I have tried to stop when I was done. TENAFLY, N. J., September, 1886. NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS. H. B. S. HENRY B. STANTON, the author, died suddenly on January 14th, 1887, in New York. He was busy correcting the proofs of this book the day before he died. H. & B. |