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AMERICAN POLITICS
(NON-PARTISAN)
FROM THE BEGINNING TO DATE.
EMBODYING
A HISTORY OF ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES,
WITH
THEIR VIEWS AND RECORDS ON ALL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
GREAT SPEECHES ON ALL GREAT ISSUES,
AND
TABULATED HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS.

By HON. THOMAS V. COOPER,

Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1870–72. Senate, 1874–84. Chairman Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, 1881–82–83–84–85–86–87.

AND

HECTOR T. FENTON, Esq.,

Of the Philadelphia Bar.

FIFTEENTH AND REVISED EDITION.