OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

BY

JAMES PARTON,

AUTHOR OF "LIFE and times of aarỚN BURR," "LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,"
"GENERAL BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS," ETC.

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

VOL. II.

BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

1870.

MONTAIGNE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

BY MASON BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,
CAMBRIDGE.