FROM THE FORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. NEW YORK: 1872. Microfilm Negration : 84-2387 Humanities Fremrvation Project Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1972, by E. B. TREAT, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. POOLK & MACLAUCHLAN, PRINTERS, 205 to 213 East 12th St. MAY This book appeals to the patriotic sentiments of all classes of readers. In its pages will be found those words of burning eloquence which lighted the fires of the American Revolution, stirring the hearts of our fathers to do battle for our independence; the words of wisdom which brought our ship of state safely through the storms of strife into the calms of peace, and all of the most important speeches and proclamations of our statesmen which guided our country during critical periods of our political life. It is a book of our country as a whole; all must read it with emotions of gratitude and pride at the grandeur and stability of our institutions as exemplified by the eloquent words of the statesmen and leading spirits of the great Republic. First in its pages, appropriately, will be found the “Declaration of Independence," the great corner 1176910 stone of American liberty; and as a fitting close, one of our most distinguished historians has furnished a “ History of the Flag,”--the Flag of the Union, the sacred emblein around which are clustered the memories of the thousands of heroes who have struggled to sustain it untarnished against both foreign and domestic foes. To the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address—truly : “ Key Notes to American Liberty”_have been added inany important proclamations and congressional acts of a later day, namely: President Jackson's famous Nullification Proclamation to South Carolina, The Monroe Doctrine, Dred Scott Decision, Neutrality laws, with numerous documents, state papers and statistical matter growing out of the late Rebellion ; all of which will be read with new and ever increasing interest. And as long as Republic endures, these pages will be cherished as the representative of all that is great and good in our country; and will prove incentives to our children to follow in the footsteps of the patriots by whose genius and valor our institutions have been cherished and preserved, and liberty, like water made to run throughout the land free to all. our CONTENTS. PAOB DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE... CONSTITUTION OF TIIE UNITED STATES.. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION...... CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ABOLISIIING SLAVERY.... 44 AMENDMENT CONCERNING RECONSTRUCTION, RIGHTS OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1793.. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1850... CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT—No DISTINCTION IN COLOR 68 INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. PRESIDENT JACKSON'S PROCLAMATION TO SOUTH CAROLINA 105 PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH TIIE POPULAR VOTE FOR EACII..... 154 STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THIRTEEN YEARS, ENDING JUNE 1st, 1872. 167 NEUTRALITY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES...... POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES AT EACH DECADE POPULATION OF OUR LARGEST CITIES (NEW CENSUS). ... 177 SLAVE POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1860.. 178 STATISTICS OF SLAVERY BEFORE THE REVOLUTION..... 178 SPEECH OF HON. STEPHE A. DOUGLAS,--His LAST WORDS PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS. |