OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

BY

JAMES PARTON,

!!

AUTHOR OF “LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR,” “LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,”

GENERAL BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS," ETO.

"I will follow the right cause even to the stake: but without the
stake if I can."

.."-MONTAIGNE

VOL. ' II.

NEW YORK:
MASON BROTHERS, NO. 7 MERCER ST.
Boston: Mason & HAMLIN; PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co.;

Chicago: 8. C. GRIGGS & Co.
LONDON: TRUBNER & CO., 60 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1864.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

Southern District of New York.

0. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER.