OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES. BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. BOSTON: TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS. M DCCC L. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. BOSTON: THURSTON, TORRY, AND COMPANY, TO DR. G. BAILEY, OF THE NATIONAL ERA, Washington, D. C. THESE Sketches, many of which originally appeared in the columns of the paper under his editorial supervision, are, in their present form, offered as a token of the esteem and confidence which years of political and literary communion have justified and confirmed, on the part of his friend and associate, THE AUTHOR. |