The Buckinghams an Original Puritan Family--Rev. Thomas Buckingham--Gov. Buckingham's Father and Mother--Lebanon, the Birthplace of Five Governors--Gov. Buckingham's Education--He Teaches School--His Natural Executive Tendency--His Business Career--His Extreme Punctuality in Payments--His Business and Religious Character--His Interest in the Churches and Schools--His Benefactions in those Directions--His Political Course--He Accepts Municipal but not Legislative Offices--A Member of the Peace Conference--He Himself Equips the First State Militia in the War--His Zealous Co-operation with the Government--Sends Gen. Aiken to Washington--The Isolation of that City from the North--Gov. Buckingham's Policy for the War; Letter to Mr. Lincoln--His Views on Emancipation; Letter to Mr. Lincoln--Anecdote of the Temperance Governor's Staff. 463 CHAPTER XVII.--WENDELL PHILLIPS. Birth and Ancestry of Wendell Phillips--His Education and Social Advantage--The Lovejoy Murder--Speech in Faneuil Hall--The Murder Justified--Mr. Phillips' First Speech--He Defends the Liberty of the Press--His Ideality--He Joins the Garrisonian Abolitionists--Gives up the Law and Becomes a Reformer--His Method and Style of Oratory--Abolitionists Blamed for the Boston Mob--Heroism of the Early Abolitionists--His Position in Favor of "Woman's Rights"--Anecdote of His Lecturing--His Services in the Cause of Temperance--Extract from His Argument on Prohibition--His Severity towards Human Nature--His Course During and Since the War--A Change of Tone Recommended. 483 CHAPTER XVIII.--HENRY WARD BEECHER. Mr. Beecher a Younger Child--Death of his Mother--His Step-Mother's Religious Influence--Ma'am Kilbourn's School --The Passing Bell--Unprofitable Schooling--An Inveterate School Joker--Masters the Latin Grammar--Goes to Amherst College--His Love of Flowers--Modes of Study; a Reformer-- Mr. Beecher and the Solemn Tutor--His Favorite Poetry--His Introduction to Phrenology--His Mental Philosophy--Doctrine of Spiritual Intuition--Punctuality for Joke's Sake--Old School and New School--Doubts on Entering the Ministry-- Settlement at Lawrenceburg--His Studies; First Revival--Large Accessions to the Church--"Tropical Style"--Ministerial Jokes --Slavery in the Pulpit--The Transfer to Brooklyn--Plymouth Church Preaching--Visit to England--Speeches in England-- Letters from England--Christian View of England--The Exeter Hall Speech--Preaches an Unpopular Forgiveness. 505 [Illustration: A. Lincoln] CHAPTER I. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.