Excerpt from The Life of Hon. Samuel Jones Tilden: Governor of the State of New York; With a Sketch of the Life of Hon. Thomas Andrews Hendricks, Governor of the State of Indian Long prefaces are seldom read; and the author of the following pages presents a, short one. He wishes it to be distinctly understood at the outset, that, in writing the Life of Samuel J ones Tilden and of Thomas Andrews Hendricks, he has nothing to say that Will or can possibly be construed to the disparagement of the personal character and integrity of Gov. Hayes or-of Congressman Wheeler, the candi dates of the Republican party for President and vice-presi dent of the United States. He has formerly written the Lives of Robert Raik'es, of Horace Greeley, and a Memoir of Charles Sumner; and in none of them did he find cause for assailing any other gentleman. In a, recent History of Pennsylvania, former historians were not impugned, but gratitude was expressed for What they had done. Provi dentially, in the lives of the gentlemen portrayed in this volume, there is sufficient of uprightness, integrity, intellect, and good service rendered to their fellow-citizens, to place them on an eminence above reproach, and worthy of imita tion; and the author considers himself fortunate in having to set forth men of such honorable and praiseworthy characters. 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.