THE

LEADING ORATORS

OF TWENTY-FIVE CAMPAIGNS,

From the First Presidential Canvass

TO THE PRESENT TIME.

PORTRAITS, REMINISCENCES, AND
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF

AMERICA'S DISTINGUISHED POLITICAL SPEAKERS.

A CONCISE HISTORY OF

POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES, TOGETHER WITH
A CHRONOLOGICAL PRESENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL
AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES.

BY

WILLIAM C. ROBERTS.

NEW YORK:

L. K. STROUSE & CO., PUBLISHERS,

95 NASSAU STREET.

1884.