Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography

Henry Watterson

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Marse Henry, Complete, by Henry Watterson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Author: Henry Watterson Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8460] Posting Date: August 5, 2009 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARSE HENRY, COMPLETE *** Produced by Curtis A. Weyant, David Widger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Henry Watterson (About 1908) "Marse Henry" An Autobiography By Henry Watterson Volume I Illustrated To My Friend Alexander Konta With Affectionate Salutation "Mansfield," 1919 A mound of earth a little higher graded: Perhaps upon a stone a chiselled name: A dab of printer's ink soon blurred and faded-And then oblivion--that--that is fame! --Henry Watterson Contents Chapter the First I Am Born and Begin to Take Notice--John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson-James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce--Jack Dade and "Beau Hickman"--Old Times in Washington Chapter the Second Slavery the Trouble-Maker--Break-Up of the Whig Party and Rise of the Republican--The Key--Sickle's Tragedy--Brooks and Sumner--Life at Washington in the Fifties Chapter the Third The Inauguration of Lincoln--I Quit Washington and Return to Tennessee--A Runa-bout with Forest--Through the Federal Lines and a Dangerous Adventure-Good Luck at Memphis Chapter the Fourth I Go to London--Am Introduced to a Notable Set--Huxley, Spencer, Mill and Tyndall--Artemus Ward Comes to Town--The Savage Club Chapter the Fifth Mark Twain--The Original of Colonel Mulberry Sellers--The "Earl of Durham"-Some Noctes Ambrosianæ--A Joke on Murat Halstead Chapter the Sixth Houston and Wigfall of Texas--Stephen A. Douglas--The Twaddle about Puritans and Cavaliers--Andrew Johnson and John C. Breckenridge Chapter the Seventh An Old Newspaper Rookery--Reactionary Sectionalism in Cincinnati and Louisville--The Courier-Journal Chapter the Eighth Feminism and Woman Suffrage--The Adventures in Politics and Society--A Real Heroine Chapter the Ninth Dr. Norvin Green--Joseph Pulitzer--Chester A. Arthur--General Grant--The Case of Fitz-John Porter Chapter the Tenth Of Liars and Lying--Woman Suffrage and Feminism--The Professional Female-Parties, Politics, and Politicians in America Chapter the Eleventh Andrew Johnson--The Liberal Convention in 1872--Carl Schurz--The "Quadrilateral"--Sam Bowles, Horace White and Murat Halstead--A Queer Composite of Incongruities Chapter the Twelfth The Ideal in Public Life--Politicians, Statesmen and Philosophers--The Disputed Presidency in 1876--The Persona and Character of Mr. Tilden--His Election and Exclusion by a Partisan Tribunal Chapter the Thirteenth Charles Eames and Charles Sumner-Schurzand Lamar--I Go to Congress--A Heroic Kentuckian--Stephen Foster and His Songs--Music and Theodore Thomas Chapter the Fourteenth Henry Adams and the Adams Family--John Hay and Frank Mason--The Three Mousquetaires of Culture--Paris--"The Frenchman"--The South of France Chapter the Fifteenth Still the Gay Capital of France--Its Environs--Walewska and De Morny-Thackeray in Paris--A Pension Adventure Chapter the Sixteenth Monte Carlo--The European Shrine of Sport and Fashion--Apocryphal Gambling Stories--Leopold, King of the Belgians--An Able and Picturesque Man of Business Chapter the Seventeenth A Parisian Pension--The Widow of Walewska--Napoleon's Daughter-in-Law-The Changeless--A Moral and Orderly City Chapter the Eighteenth The Grover Cleveland Period--President Arthur and Mr. Blaine--John Chamberlin--The Decrees of Destiny Chapter the Nineteenth Mr. Cleveland in the White House--Mr. Bayard in the Department of State--Queer Appointments to Office--The One-Party Power--The End of North and South Sectionalism Chapter the Twentieth The Real Grover Cleveland--Two Clevelands Before and After Marriage--A Correspondence and a Break of Personal Relations Chapter the Twenty-First Stephen Foster, the Song-Writer--A Friend Comes to the Rescu His Originality-"My Old Kentucky Home" and the "Old Folks at Home"--General Sherman and "Marching Through Georgia" Chapter the Twenty-Second Theodore Roosevelt--His Problematic Character--He Offers Appointment--His Bonhomie and Chivalry--Proud of His Rebel Kin Chapter the Twenty-Third The Actor and the Journalist--The Newspaper and the State--Joseph Jefferson-His Personal and Artistic Career--Modest Character and Religious Belief Chapter the Twenty-Fourth The Writing of Memoirs--Some Characteristics of Carl Shurz--Sam Bowles-Horace White and the Mugwumps Chapter the Twenty-Fifth Me an Every Trade Has Its Tricks--I Play One on William McKinley--Far Away Party Politics and Political Issues Chapter the Twenty-Sixth A Libel on Mr. Cleveland--His Fondness for Cards--Some Poker Stories--The "Senate Game"--Tom Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck Chapter the Twenty-Seventh The Profession of Journalism--Newspapers and Editors in America--Bennett, Greeley and Raymond--Forney and Dana--The Education of a Journalist Chapter the Twenty-Eighth Bullies and Braggarts--Some Kentucky Illustrations--The Old Galt House--The Throckmortons--A Famous Sugeon--"Old Hell's Delight" Chapter the Twenty-Ninth About Political Conventions, State and National--"Old Ben Butler"--His Appearance as a Trouble-Maker in the Democratic National Convention of 1892--Tarifa and the Tariff--Spain as a Frightful Example Chapter the Thirtieth The Makers of the Republic--Lincoln, Jefferson, Clay and Webster--The Proposed League of Nations--The Wilsonian Incertitude--The "New Freedom" Chapter the Thirty-First The Age of Miracles--A Story of Franklin Pierce--Simon Suggs Billy Sunday-Jefferson Davis and Aaron Burr--Certain Constitutional Shortcomings Chapter the Thirty-Second A War Episode--I Meet my Fater--I Marry and Make a Home--The Ups and Downs of Life Lead to a Happy Old Age Illustrations Henry Watterson (About 1908) Henry Clay--Painted at Ashland by Dodge for The Hon. Andrew Ewing of Tennessee-The Original Hangs in Mr. Watterson's Library at "Mansfield" W. P. Hardee, Lieutenant General C.S.A. John Bell of Tennessee--In 1860 Presidential Candidate "Union Party"--"Bell and Everett" Ticket Artemus Ward General Leonidas Polk--Lieutenant General C.S.A. Killed in Georgia, June 14, 1864--P. E. Bishop of Louisiana Mr. Watterson's Editorial Staff in 1868 When the Three Daily Newspapers of Louisville Were United into the Courier-Journal. Mr. George D. Prentice and Mr. Watterson Are in the Center Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From a Photograph by M. B. Brady Mrs. Lincoln in 1861 Henry Watterson--Fifty Years Ago Henry Woodfire Grady--One of Mr. Watterson's "Boys" Mr. Watterson's Library at "Mansfield" A Corner of "Mansfield"--Home of Mr. Watterson Henry Watterson (Photograph Taken in Florida) Henry Watterson. From a painting by Louis Mark in the Manhattan Club, New York "MARSE HENRY" Chapter the First I Am Born and Begin to Take Notice--John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson-James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce--Jack Dade and "Beau Hickman"--Old Times in Washington I I am asked to jot down a few autobiographic odds and ends from such data of record and memory as I may retain. I have been something of a student of life; an observer of men and women and affairs; an appraiser of their character, their conduct, and, on occasion, of their motives. Thus, a kind of instinct, which bred a tendency and grew to a habit, has led me into many and diverse companies, the lowest not always the meanest. Circumstance has rather favored than hindered this bent. I was born in a party camp and grew to manhood on a political battlefield. I have lived through stirring times and in the thick of events. In a vein colloquial and reminiscential, not ambitious, let