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Author of the "Irish Republic," "The Civil Government of the States"
and "Constitutional History of the United States,"
"Poems and Songs," etc., etc.

NEW YORK:

FOR SALE BY P. J. KENEDY, NO. 5 BARCLAY STREET.

1892.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892,

BY P. CUDMORE,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

ST. PAUL, MINN.:
THE PIONEER PRESS COMPANY.

1892.

frans. Museu 8-11-44

PREFACE.

N preparing this volume for the public, the author has consulted the general histories of the world, England, Scotland and Ireland, Coke, Blackstone and other authors on constitutional and common law; English and Irish acts of parliament; the general histories of the United States, Madison Papers, the Federalist, Elliott's Debates, the writings of Vattel, De Tocqueville, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton and other American statesmen. The "Congressional Globe," the "Congressional Record," the platforms of political parties, the "Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States," the "Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States," the writings of eminent statesmen on political economy, the documents of the Cobden Club, reports and proceedings of the Pan-American Congress, the published documents of the "Bureau of American Republics," consular reports and other documents. The tariff laws of the United States, Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, South America and other countries; the recent reciprocity treaties with Latin America and the West Indies; the histories and other publications pertaining to Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America; the official reports and maps of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua; the correspondence of railway companies, ocean steamsnip companies, the manufacturers and importers of American tin plate; private letters and documents too voluminous to mention.

The author most respectfully hopes that this work will be welcomed by the students of history, the legal profession, editors and statesmen. Those who wish to understand our tariff laws, reciprocity and protection to American industries; the resources, climate and productions of the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, will find this volume a useful and reliable book of facts. The author has endeavored to confine himself to facts and figures, regardless of partisan considerations.

NEW YORK, May, 1892.

DEDICATION.

TO THE HONOrable James G. Blaine,
Secretary of the United States;

Author of the Pan-American Congress
and Reciprocity,

THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

I was born in Moorestown, Parish of Kilfinane, County of Limerick, Ireland. My father was Daniel Cudmore; mother, Catherine Minahan; my grandfather, Thomas Cudmore; grandmother, Ellen Quinlan; my great-grandfather, William Cudmore. My grandfather and his brother, Daniel Cudmore, came to Moorestown from the neighborhood of the city of Limerick. Several of the Cudmore family live in the counties of Limerick and Clare. I came to New York in April, 1846. I studied law in a law school, attended lectures on anatomy at Bellevue Hospital and a course of lectures at the Cooper Institute. I traveled in Mexico, Central and South America. I was in Havana, Cuba, when General Lopez and some Americans were shot, in 1850, for invading Cuba. The Southern Democrats wanted to annex Cuba and Mexico. They wanted to extend slavery all over the "Golden Circle." The "Golden Circle" had its centre at Havana, Cuba, its radius extending to Mason and Dixon's line. In New York I married Mary Anne Lynch. She died in Minnesota, in November, 1857. I have a son, Daniel John Cudmore, living at Rochester, Minn. In New York I wrote a part of a novel entitled "The Irish Landlord." It has not been published. I studied history, poetry, mathematics, navigation, astronomy, chemistry, philosophy, law, logic, politics and language. I came to Wisconsin in 1853, and settled in Cross Plains, Dane county, where I practiced law. I was elected justice of the peace in 1855. I got a fair amount of legal business. In the spring of 1856 I came to Minnesota, made a claim of 160 acres of government land in the township of Merton, Steele county, Minnesota, and practiced law. In 1858 I was elected town clerk of Merton, and in 1858 ran for county attorney of Steele county, Minnesota. In May, 1859, I came to Faribault, Minn., and entered the law office of Hon. H. C. Lowell and his son, Charles L. Lowell. In 1860 I was commissioned a notary public for Rice county, and was a candidate for court commissioner. I published letters in the newspapers and made speeches in the counties of Rice, Steele, Waseca and Le Sueur. In 1860-61 I delivered free lectures on Ireland, Mexico and South America. I served in the Union army during the Rebellion and in the Indian war. In the winter of 1865-66 I traveled in the Southern States, collecting materials for my "Constitutional History." In 1868 I was elected county attorney of LeSueur county, Minnesota. In 1871 I published “The Irish Republic," my "Constitutional History" in 1875 and the fourth edition of my "Poems and Songs" in 1885. In 1892 I published two editions of "Buchanan's Conspiracy, the Nicaragua Canal and Reciprocity." In 1890-93 I gave free lectures on the Nicaragua canal, Mexico, Central and South America. I have from time to time published letters in the newspapers. The American Publishers' Association, Chicago, have published, in "Local and National Poets of America," my portrait, biography and selections from my poems, and also selections from my poems in "Poetical Quotations" and "Poems" in autograph. H. H. Bevis, Cincinnati, has published, in "Golden Thoughts by American Writers," selections from my poems. David J. O'Donoghue, London, England, published, in "The Poets of Ireland," my biography. I am completing for the press a work on Ireland, including its civil government. I have donated to the principal libraries of the world copies of "The Irish Republic," "Constitutional History," ""Poems and Songs."

April 11, 1894.

P. CUDMORE, B. H.

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