Excerpt from Men of Our Day, or Biographical Sketches of Patriots, Orators, Statesmen, Generals, Reformers, Financiers and Merchants, Now on the Stage of Action: Including Those Who in Military, Political, Business and Social Life, Are the Prominent Leaders of the Time in This Country Nothing, says a recent epigrammatic writer, suc ceeds like success. We may add, nothing interests the public like the history of success. Let a man be poor, Obscure, and undistinguished by any remarkable or con spicuous deeds, and though he had the wisdom Of Solo mon, the meekness of Moses, the patience of Job, or the faith of Abraham, yet there would be little or no inter est felt ih his history. An humble and outwardly quiet life may have its record Of heart struggles, its days Of sunshine and shadow, its nights of wearying anxiety and mental disquiet, which are full Of interest to beings of higher intelligence than ours, and form to the psycho logist a curious study; but for the great mass of man kind they possess no charm. 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.