OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

BY

JAMES PARTON,

AUTHOR OF “LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR,” “LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,"
GENERAL BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS," ETC.

"I will follow the right cause even to the stake: but without the
stake if I can."-MONTAIGNE.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

MASON BROTHERS, NO. 7 MERCER ST.
BOSTON: MASON & HAMLIN; PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co.;

CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS & CO.

LONDON: TRUBNER & CO., 60 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1864.