Produced by Curtis A. Weyant, David Widger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Marse Henry” An Autobiography by Henry Watterson _Illustrated_ [Illustration: Henry Watterson (About 1908)] 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 Run-a-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