CHAPTER XVI

.--WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM.

The Buckinghams an Original Puritan Family--Rev. Thomas Buckingham--Gov. Buckingham's Father and Mother--Lebanon, the Birthplace of Five Governors--Gov. Buckingham's Education--He Teaches School--His Natural Executive Tendency--His Business Career--His Extreme Punctuality in Payments--His Business and Religious Character--His Interest in the Churches and Schools--His Benefactions in those Directions--His Political Course--He Accepts Municipal but not Legislative Offices--A Member of the Peace Conference--He Himself Equips the First State Militia in the War--His Zealous Co-operation with the Government--Sends Gen. Aiken to Washington--The Isolation of that City from the North--Gov. Buckingham's Policy for the War; Letter to Mr. Lincoln--His Views on Emancipation; Letter to Mr. Lincoln--Anecdote of the Temperance Governor's Staff. 463

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