OF

JOHN J. CRITTENDEN,

WITH SELECTIONS FROM

HIS CORRESPONDENCE AND SPEECHES.

EDITED BY HIS DAUGHTER,

MRS. CHAPMAN COLEMAN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1873.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

I DEDICATE

These Volumes

TO MY GRANDSONS WHO BEAR THE NAME OF

JOHN J. CRITTENDEN,

HOPING THAT THIS RECORD OF A NOBLE LIFE MAY INSPIRE THEM TO UNSELFISH PATRIOTISM AND ACTS OF LOVE AND KINDNESS.

"MAY ALL THE ENDS THEY AIM AT BE THEIR COUNTRY'S, THEIR GOD'S, AND TRUTH'S.'*

* "May all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's," were among the last words spoken by Mr. Crittenden, and they are engraved upon his tomb.