Excerpt from National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc;, Etc In this letter we may read the aged man backward, from his steadfast, methodical desk in the House of Representatives, to the little boy at his mother's side in Braintree. The childhood shows the man as morn ing shows the day. He was an Old fashioned, studious youth, nurtured amidst grave scenes of duty, early in harness, a resolute worker from his cra dle to his grave. The next year the boy is taken with his father, on board the frigate Boston, on his first mission to France followed, in her first letter after the separation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.