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A mound of earth a little higher graded:     Perhaps upon a stone a chiselled name: A dab of printer’s ink soon blurred and faded—     And then oblivion—that—that is fame!                     —Henry Watterson Contents Chapter the First I Am Born and Begin to Take Notice—John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson—James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce—Jack Dade and “Beau Hickman”—Old Times in Washington Chapter the Second Slavery the Trouble-Maker—Break-Up of the Whig Party and