A Great National Work.
Party Leaders.
SKETCHES OF
JEFFERSON, HAMILTON, RANDOLPH, JACKSON, AND CLAY:
Including Notices of many other Distinguished American Statesmen.
BY J. G. BALDWIN,
(Now of San Francisco, California.) Author of “Flush Times of alabama and Mississippi.
One Volume, 12mo. Cloth. Price $1.
OPINIONS OF EMINENT MEN.
From Ex-President Fillmore.
I have read “Party Leaders” with great satisfaction and delight, and return you a thousand
thanks for the pleasure and instruction I have derived from the perusal.
From Honorable Edward Everett.
What little I have as yet been able to read of it, has impressed me very favorably in reference
to the ability and impartiality with which it is drawn up. I am prepared to read
it with interest and advantage, in consequence of the pleasure I derived from “The Flush
Times in Alabama.”
From Honorable J. P. Kennedy.
I was greatly delighted with the fine, discriminating, acute insight with which the characters
presented in the work are drawn, and with the eloquent style of the sketches. I
but repeat the common opinion of the best judges, which I hear every where expressed,
when I commend these qualities of the book.
“The Flush Times of Alabama” had whetted my desire to see this second production
of Mr. Baldwin's pen, and I can hardly express to you the agreeable surprise I enjoyed in
finding a work of such surpassing merit in a tone and manner so entirely different from the
first—demonstrating that double gift in the author which enables him to excel in two such
opposite departments of literature.
From Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, U. S. Senator from Virginia.
I have read “Party Leaders” with great pleasure. It is written with ability, and with
freshness, and grace of style, * * * The chapters on Randolph are capital.
From Hon. James M. Mason, U. S. Senator from Virginia.
I have heard “Party Leaders” highly-commended by those competent to judge, but
confess I was not prepared for the intellectual and literary feast its rich pages have yielded.
As a literary work, I shall be much disappointed if it does not place its author at once
in the first rank of American literature, and even in old England. I shall look for its place
next to, if not by the side of, the kindeed works of McIntosh and Macaulay.
From a Distinguished Statesman.
It is a noble production, full of profound thought, discriminating judgment, just criticism,
and elevated sentiments, all expressed in the most captivating and eloquent style. It
is a book just according to my fancy, and, I think, one of the most captivating in our
language.
