Yazoo Purchase--Governor Matthews--James Jackson--Burning of the Yazoo Act--Development of Free Government--Constitutional Convention--Slavery: Its Introduction and Effects CHAPTER IV. POLITICAL DISPUTATIONS. Baldwin--A Yankee's Political Stability--The Yazoo Question--Party Feuds and Fights--Deaf and Dumb Ministers--Clay--Jackson--Buchanan-- Calhoun--Cotton and Free Trade--The Clay and Randolph Duel CHAPTER V. GEORGIA'S NOBLE SONS. A Minister of a Day--Purity of Administration--Then and Now--Widow Timberlake--Van Buren's Letter--Armbrister and Arbuthnot--Old Hickory Settles a Difficulty--A Cause of the Late War--Honored Dead CHAPTER VI. POPULAR CHARACTERISTICS. A Frugal People--Laws and Religion--Father Pierce--Thomas W. Cobb-- Requisites of a Political Candidate--A Farmer-Lawyer--Southern Humorists CHAPTER VII. WITS AND FIRE-EATERS. Judge Dooly--Lawyers and Blacksmiths--John Forsyth--How Juries were Drawn--Gum-Tree _vs._ Wooden-Leg--Preacher-Politicians--Colonel Gumming--George McDuffie CHAPTER VIII. FIFTY YEARS AGO. Governor Matthews--Indians--Topography of Middle Georgia--A New Country and its Settlers--Beaux and Belles--Early Training--Jesuit Teachers--A Mother's Influence--The Jews--Homely Sports--The Cotton Gin--Camp-Meetings CHAPTER IX. PEDAGOGUES AND DEMAGOGUES. Education--Colleges--School-Days--William and Mary--A Substitute-- Boarding Around--Rough Diamonds--Caste--George M. Troup--A Scotch Indian--Alexander McGilvery--The McIntosh Family--Button Gwinnett --General Taylor--Matthew Talbot--Jesse Mercer--An Exciting Election CHAPTER X. INDIAN TREATIES AND DIFFICULTIES. The Creeks--John Quincy Adams--Hopothlayohola--Indian Oratory--Sulphur Springs--Treaties Made and Broken--An Independent Governor--Colonels John S. McIntosh, David Emanuel Twiggs, and Duncan Clinch--General Gaines--Christianizing the Indians--Cotton Mather--Expedient and Principle--The Puritanical Snake CHAPTER XI. POLITICAL CHANGES. Aspirants for Congress--A New Organization--Two Parties--A Protective Tariff--United States Bank--The American System--Internal Improvements --A Galaxy of Stars--A Spartan Mother's Advice--Negro-Dealer-- Quarter-Races--Cock-Pitting--Military Blunders on Both Sides--Abner Green's Daughter--Andrew Jackson--Gwinn--Poindexter--Ad Interim-- Generals by Nature as Civil Rulers CHAPTER XII. GOSSIP. Unrequited Love--Popping the Question--Practical Joking--Satan Let Loose--Rhea, but not Rhea--Teachings of Nature--H.S. Smith CHAPTER XIII. INFLUENCE OF CHILDHOOD. First Impressions--Fortune--Mirabeau B. Lamar--Dr. Alonzo Church--Julius Cæsar--L.Q.C. Lamar--Texan Independence--Colquitt--Lumpkin--What a Great Man Can Do in One Day--Charles J. Jenkins CHAPTER XIV. A REVOLUTIONARY VETERAN. Tapping Reeve--James Gould--Colonel Benjamin Talmadge--The Execution of Major André--Character of Washington--A Breach of Discipline-- Burr and Hamilton--Margaret Moncrief--Cowles Meade CHAPTER XV. CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT.