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• Twenty Years of Congress, From Lincoln to Garfield: With a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 (Norwich, CT: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1884-1886), by James Gillespie Blaine
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Eight Years in Congress, From 1857 to 1865, by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at MOA)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A review of the political conflict in America, from the commencement of the anti-slavery agitation to the close of southern reconstruction; comprising also a résumé of the career of Thaddeus Stevens: being a survey of the struggle of parties which destroyed the republic and virtually monarchized its government ... (T.H. Pollock, 1876), by Alexander Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Cornelius Cole, ex-senator of the United States from California. (McLoughlin Brothers, 1908), by Cornelius Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Cassius Marcellus Clay. Memoirs, writings, and speeches, showing his conduct in the overthrow of American slavery, the salvation of the Union, and the restoration of the autonomy of the states ... Vol. I. (J.F. Brennan & Co., 1886), by Cassius Marcellus Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of C. G. Memminger. (Everett Waddey co., 1893), by Henry D. Capers, 1834-1836 South Carolina. Governor, Confederate States of America Department of the Treasury, and Union state rights party. South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of James W. Grimes, governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; a senator of the United States, 1859-1869. (D. Appleton and Company, 1876), by William Salter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerika, Europa und die politischen Gesichtspunkte der Gegenwart (J. Springer, 1859), by Julius Fröbel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of William H. Seward ([AMS Press], 1972), by William H. Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of the political conflict in America, from the commencement of the anti-slavery agitation to the close of southern reconstruction; comprising also a résumé of the career of Thaddeus Stevens: being a survey of the struggle of parties, which destroyed the Republic and virtually monarchized its Government. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Alexander Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches on political questions [1850-1868] (Hurd and Houghton, 1872), by George W. Julian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of William H. Seward (Redfield, 1853), by William H. Seward and George E. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches, arguments, addresses, and letters of Clement L. Vallandigham. (J. Walter & Co., 1864), by Clement L. Vallandigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Cassius Marcellus Clay; memoirs, writings, and speeches. In two volumes. Volume 1 ([Berea? Ky.], 1968), by Cassius Marcellus Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Henry Dana, a biography (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a war-time statesman and diplomat, 1830-1915 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Frederick William Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the civil war and the development of civil liberty in the United States (Fords, Howard and Hulber, 1891), by Henry Ward Beecher and John R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and public services of George Luther Stearns (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907), by Frank Preston Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Sumner (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), by Moorfield Storey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States (Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1887), by Henry Ward Beecher, John R. Howard, and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln in the political circus; being a study in summary and outline of Abraham Lincoln's political relationships with his constituency, including the background of slavery, men, factions, & parties, together with hitherto unpublished state election tables and classified bibliography (The Black cat press, 1936), by Blaine Brooks Gernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865 Memoir and speeches. (D. Appleton and company, 1865), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Civil War in America (Longmans, Green and Co., 1923), by Walter Gaston Shotwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years of American life, Taylor to Roosevelt, 1850 to 1910 (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1917), by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Sherman, his life and public services (Sherman, French & company, 1908), by Winfield Scott Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches on commercial, financial and other subjects. (G. W. Carleton & co.; [etc., etc.], 1877), by Elijah Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• John C. Frémont and the Republican party (The Ohio State University, 1930), by Ruhl Jacob Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Political speeches]. (Washington, etc., 1852), by William H. Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Orville Hickman Browning (The Trustees of the Illinois state historical library, 1925), by Orville Hickman Browning, Marguerite Edith Jenison, J. G. Randall, and Theodore Calvin Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Democratic machine, 1850-1854 (Columbia University, 1923), by Roy F. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of the stump, the bar, and the platform. (Review and herald publishing co., 1899), by Charles Sedgwick May (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Samuel Bowles (The Century co., 1885), by George Spring Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of William H. Seward (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884), by William H. Seward and George E. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Democratic machine, 1850-1854. (AMS Press, 1967), by Roy F. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of John Kelly, tribune of the people (American News Co., 1885), by J. Fairfax McLaughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight years in Congress, from 1857-1865. Memoir and speeches. (D. Appleton and Company, 1865), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men and events of forty years. : Autobiographical reminiscences of an active career from 1850 to 1890 (D. Lothrop Co., 1891), by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell and Henry W. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• My day; reminiscences of a long life (The Macmillan Company, 1909), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and speeches (D. Appleton, 1885), by Jeremiah S. Black and Chauncey Forward Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political recollections, 1840 to 1872. (Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1884), by George Washington Julian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a war-time statesman and diplomat, 1830-1915 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Frederick William Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address in commemoration of the life and services of Charles Francis Adams delivered in the Stone Temple at Quincy, 4 July, 1887 (J. Wilson and Son, 1887), by William Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the speeches and writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina; with additions and explanatory notes. (J. Nichols, printer, 1877), by T. L. Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of William H. Seward (Redfield, 1853), by William H. Seward and George E. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new gospel of peace, according to St. Benjamin. (The American news company, 1877), by Richard Grant White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the speeches, sermons, addresses, etc., of Samuel Clement Fessenden. (Tomlinson, 1869), by Samuel Clement Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States. (Pilgrim Press, 1887), by Henry Ward Beecher and John R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic addresses in America and England, 1850-1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States (Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1888), by Henry Ward Beecher and John R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the speeches and writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina : with additions and explanatory notes. (J. Nichols, 1878), by T. L. Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public record: including speeches, messages, proclamations, official correspondence, and other public utterances of Horatio Seymour; from the campaign of 1856 to the present time. With an appendix. (I. W. England, 1868), by Horatio Seymour, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas M. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches, arguments, addresses (J. Walter & co., 1864), by Clement L. Vallandigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the speeches and writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina (J. Nichols, printer, 1877), by Thomas Lanier Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollection of men and things at Washington, during the third of a century. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger;, 1869), by L. A. Gobright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some aspects of politics in the middle West, 1860-72 (The Society, 1912), by Evarts Boutell Greene and State Historical Society of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men and events of forty years. Autobiographical reminiscences of an active career from 1850 to 1890 (D. Lothrop company, 1891), by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell and Henry Webster Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of C. G. Memminger (Everette Waddey Co., 1893), by Henry D. Capers, 1834-1836 South Carolina. Governor, Confederate States of America Department of the Treasury, and Union State Rights Party. South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and public services of George Luther Stearns. (Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1907 ; New York : Kraus Reprint, 1969., 1969), by Frank Preston Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Sumner (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900), by Moorfield Storey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a war-time statesman and diplomat, 1830-1915 (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Frederick William Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Carl Schurz. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1865), by Carl Schurz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamphlet volume (1848-1864., 1848), by Henry Charles Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections suggested by a second visit to the United States of America : being a paper read before the Liverpool Philomathic Society, March 13, 1867 (Printed by D. Marples, 1867), by Samuel Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Democratic machine, 1850-1854 (Columbia University, 1923), by Roy F. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches in stirring times; and, Letters to a son (Houghton Mifflin, 1910), by Richard Henry Dana and Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Samuel Bowles (T.V. Unwin, 1885), by George Spring Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bill for the admission of the states of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada East and Canada West, and for the organization of the Territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan, and Columbia July 2, 1866, read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. (s.n., 1866), by United States House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidents of the United States, from Pierce to McKinley (Linscott Pub. Co., 1903), by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches, lectures, and letters: second series. (Lee and Shepard ;, 1891), by Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Charles Theodore Dillingham, John Wilson and Son, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Sumner (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), by Moorfield Storey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches on political questions (Hurd and Houghton, 1970), by George Washington Julian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the speeches and writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina. (J. Nichols,printer, 1878), by T. L. Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered before the Tammany Society, at Tammany Hall, New York, July 4, 1873 (D. Taylor, 1873), by Clarkson Nott Potter and Tammany Hall (Political organization) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salmon Portland Chase (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Alfred D. Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Gutenberg ebook)

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