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CONTENTS.

                                                 

CHAPTER I.
	PAGE
Youth	1
CHAPTER II.
Virginian Politics	25
CHAPTER III.
In Harness	48
CHAPTER IV.
A Centralizing Statesman	75
CHAPTER V.
Vaulting Ambition	96
CHAPTER VI.
Yazoo and Judge Chase	123
CHAPTER VII.
The Quarrel	154
CHAPTER VIII.
Monroe and the Smiths	191
CHAPTER IX.
"A Nuisance and a Curse"	219
CHAPTER X.
Eccentricities	249
CHAPTER XI.
Blifil and Black George	268
CHAPTER XII.
"Faculties Misemployed"	292