[Illustration: Engraved by Geo. E. Perine, New York. Grover Cleveland]




THE

BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine_.

VOL. II.

NOVEMBER, 1884.

No. 2.

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GROVER CLEVELAND.

By HENRY H. METCALF.


Save only that of Ulysses S. Grant, no name in America has come from
comparative obscurity into national eminence in so short a time as that
of GROVER CLEVELAND.

The fame of Grant was wrought out through the exigencies of a great
civil war, in which the unity of the Republic was the issue involved.