"Swingin Round the Cirkle." - His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In / His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866

"Swingin Round the Cirkle" is Petroleum V. Johnson's ideas on politics in New Jersey. Johnson's essay is provided in an authentic tone with passionate emotion. Excerpt: "Sence the November elections I have bin spendin' the heft of my time in Washinton. I find a melancholy pleasure in lingering around the scene of so many Democratic triumphs. Here it was that Brooks, the heroic, bludgeoned Sumner; here it was that Calhoon, & Yancey, and Breckinridge achieved their glory and renown."