THE FUTURE:

A Political Essay

BY

MONTGOMERY H. THROOP.

Stay, my lord,

And let your choler with your reason question,

What 'tis you go about.

Be advised,

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot,

That it do singe yourself.

K. HENRY VIII.

NEW YORK:

JAMES G. GREGORY.

1864.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, bv

JAMES G. GREGORY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.

W. H. TINSON, Stereotyper

C. A. ALVORD, Printer.

TO THE

HONORABLE ENOS T. THROOP,

WHILOM, AND IN THE HAPPIER DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC,

Gobernor of the State of New York,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED AS A HUMBLE TESTIMONIAL OF GRATITUDE, REVERENUE, AND AFFECTION,

BY THE AUTHOR.