Excerpt from A History of the Folks' Concerts: Comprising an Autobiography of the Author, and Sketches of Many Humorous Scenes and Incidents, Which Have Transpired in a Concert-Giving Experience of Twelve Years in America and EnglandIn political matters I have held many different opinions. Living through so many years, with changes frequently oc curring ih the aspects of the country's institutions, I of course changed with the times; but I venture to say that within the past hundred years of my life I have not done more, in that respect, than many, whom the people have preferred before me, have accomplished in ten years. I wish now that my political opinions had undergone more frequent revolutions. I think, if they had, I should by this time be at least a Mem ber of Congress.My lot has been a different one from what my early, and even later, aspirations marked out. However unromantic it may seem, reader, I am a shoe-dealer. Everybody suited at No. 261 Hanover Street, is my motto.

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