Excerpt from John Pendleton Kennedy, John Eaton Cooke and Other Southern Novelists In 1814 a little army of volun teers and citizen-soldiers marched from Baltimore in the direction of Washington, with the vain hope of saving the capital of the nation. Among that number was John P. Kennedy, a youth of nineteen just from college. From that time un til his death, in 1870, he had more or less interest in public affairs. Once a member of the President's Cabinet, three times in Congress, three times a member of the Mary land Legislature, a lawyer of abili ty and a writer of no mean repute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.