Recollections of Forty Years in the House Volume I

John Sherman, american republican representative and senator from Ohio (1823-1900)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK

-02- PREFACE

-03- ANCESTRY OF THE SHERMAN FAMILY

-04- MY BOYHOOD DAYS AND EARLY LIFE

-05- OHIO, ITS HISTORY AND RESOURCES

-06- ADMISSION TO THE BAR AND EARLY POLITICAL LIFE

-07- EARLY DAYS IN CONGRESS

-08- BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

-09- RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1857

-10- EXCITING SCENES IN CONGRESS

-11- LAST DAYS OF THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION

-12- THE BEGINNING OF LINCOLN'S FIRST ADMINISTRATION

-13- SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FOR THE WAR

-14- PASSAGE OF THE LEGAL TENDER ACT IN 1862

-15- ABOLISHMENT OF THE STATE BANKS

-16- LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

-17- A MEMORABLE SESSION OF CONGRESS

-18- ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

-19- INDEBTEDNESS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1865

-20- THREE MONTHS IN EUROPE

-21- IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON

-22- THE FORTIETH CONGRESS

-23- BEGINNING OF GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION

-24- OUR COINAGE BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR

-25- SOME EVENTS IN MY PRIVATE LIFE

-26- THE PANIC OF 1873 AND ITS RESULTS

-27- BILL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS

-28- RESUMPTION ACT RECEIVED WITH DISFAVOR

-29- MY CONFIDENCE IN THE SUCCESS OF RESUMPTION

-30- THE HAYES-TILDEN PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST

-31- I BEGIN MY DUTIES AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

-32- POLICY OF THE HAYES ADMINISTRATION