COPYRIGHT 1893
BY
DOUGLAS McCALLUM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ELECTROTYPED BY THE
LIBBY & SHERWOOD PRINTING CO.
CHICAGO.
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page |
| Preface. | [1] |
| Chapter I. | [5] |
| Chapter II. | [8] |
| Chapter III. | [18] |
| Chapter IV. | [24] |
| Chapter V. | [28] |
| Chapter VI. | [32] |
| Chapter VII. | [38] |
| Chapter VIII. | [42] |
| Chapter IX. | [48] |
| Chapter X. | [57] |
| Chapter XI. | [63] |
| Chapter XII. | [69] |
| Chapter XIII. | [76] |
| Chapter XIV. | [80] |
| Chapter XV. | [83] |
| Chapter XVI. | [88] |
| Chapter XVII. | [91] |
| Chapter XVIII. | [97] |
| Chapter XIX. | [103] |
| Chapter XX. | [111] |
| Chapter XXI. | [117] |
| Chapter XXII. | [121] |
| Chapter XXIII. | [130] |
| Chapter XXIV. | [137] |
| Chapter XXV. | [144] |
| Chapter XXVI. | [149] |
| Chapter XXVII. | [156] |
| Chapter XXVIII. | [162] |
| Chapter XXIX. | [171] |
| Chapter XXX. | [175] |
| Chapter XXXI. | [180] |
| Chapter XXXII. | [187] |
| Chapter XXXIII. | [197] |
| Chapter XXXIV. | [206] |
| Chapter XXXV. | [214] |
| Chapter XXXVI. | [220] |
| Chapter XXXVII. | [227] |
| Chapter XXXVIII. | [235] |
| Chapter XXXIX. | [243] |
| Chapter XL. | [249] |
| Chapter XLI. | [254] |
| Chapter XLII. | [264] |
PREFACE.
Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon shortly before his death, said America was going through a period of disgrace. This was true; for there had come to pass, what the prophetic Lincoln had foretold, that, as the result of the war, monopolies had been enthroned, that had filled the land with corruption and imperilled the liberties of the people.
To-day the period of disgrace is worse than then, for the corrupt tree which was then bearing so luxuriant a crop has had several years more in which to develop its fruit-bearing capacity.