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Title: Marse Henry, Complete
An Autobiography

Author: Henry Watterson

Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8460]
Posting Date: August 5, 2009

Language: English

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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 Ambrosianae--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 Her