OF

OUR NATIONAL EXISTENCE,

AS SHOWN BY

THE ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES SINCE 1861.

JOHN C. HURD, LL.D.,

AUTHOR OF "THE LAW OF FREEDOM AND BONDAGE IN

SBRARY

OF THE

"Etenim si incertam vocem det tuba, quis parabit se ad bellum?"
Epistola Pauli ad Corinthios, prima: cap. xiv. vers. viii.

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