I had even been as far west as the Rockies, of which young Fremont was now beginning to write so understandingly.

For six months I had been in Mississippi and Texas studying matters and men, and now, just hack from Natchitoches, I felt that I had earned some little rest.
But there was the fascination of it--that big game of politics.

No, I will call it by its better name of statesmanship, which sometimes it deserved in those days, as it does not to-day.

That was a day of Warwicks.

The nominal rulers did not hold the greatest titles.
Naturally, I knew something of these things, from the nature of my work in Calhoun's office.