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Pepperell, William, 220
Pequods, war with, 84-88
Perry, Commodore, 787
O. H., 602

Personal Liberty bills, 807
Petersburg taken, 959
Philadelphia, 134; taken, 424
Philip's, King, war, 169-175
Phillips, General, 414, 489
Phipps, Sir William, 191, 211
Pickett, General, 918
Pierce, Franklin, 756, 786
Pilgrims in Holland, 62-64
Pilgrim Fathers, 66
Pinckney, Charles C., 547
Pitcairn, Major, 315, 333
Pitt, William, 256, 292, 310

Putnam, Israel, 248, 317, 330, 374, 402

Quakers, 92, 130, 136, 147, 279

Quebec Act, 304

founded, 36, 262, 266, 341

Queenstown attacked, 590
Quincy, Josiah, 298

Josiah, jr., 582

Quitman, John, General, 707

Raisin River, battle, 599
Rahl, Colonel, 392, 394

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Raleigh, Sir Walter, 39, 41; death, 43
Randolph, Edmund, 521, 531
John, 580
Rawdon, Lord, 495, 496
Reconstruction of States, 968
Reed, Adjutant-General, 392, 396
Red River Exp., 934
Reformation, the, 27, 28
Representatives, House of, 785
Slave representa-

tion in, 521, 631, 690, 802
Republics, South American, 646
Republican parties, 538, 792, 804
Repudiation, 676

Resaca de la Palma, battle, 702
Revere, Paul, 303, 315

Revival, great, 223

Revolt of soldiers, 486

Revolution, war of, 311-512

French, 538

Reynolds, General, 915

Rhode Island, 81, 91, 92, 168, 691
Rice, 148

Richmond, 879; taken, 959
Ringgold, Major, 701

Riots at Baltimore, 586
New York, 925

Rivington's Gazette, 350
Roberval, Lord of, 20, 21
Robertson, James, 464

Robinson, Rev. John, 61, 64

Ewd., Prof., 968

Rochambeau, Count de, 472, 500
Rodgers, Captain, 574

INDEX.

Rosecrans, General, 830, 837, 901, 903, 951
Ross, General Robert, 623, 627

Russell, Lord John, 553; protest, 967;
negligence, 975
Rutledge, Edward, 378

Sabbath, the, 135, 241, 275
Samoset, 70

Sanitary Commission, 878, 945

Santa Anna, 685, 688, 710, 714, 716-728,
749, 754, 764

Santa Fé taken, 739

San Jacinto, battle, 688
Saratoga, the surrender, 437
Sassacus, 86, 87

Savannah, 158, 462; taken, 941
Sayle, William, 144

Schenectady burned, 210

Schofield, General, 952

Schools, 91, 104, 135, 276, 278, 798, 985
Schuyler, Peter, 214

General Philip, 333, 337, 339,

360, 408, 416, 428, 431

Scott, Lieutenant-General Winfield,
591, 617, 662; Mexican War, 705, 713,
746, 755, 826, 840

Sears, Robert, 321, 350
Sedgwick, General, 910, 944

Seminoles, 150; war with, 646, 670
Seward, W. H., 817, 827, 962

Shawnees, 199, 227

Soto, De, 22-26

Sons of Liberty, 290, 321

Squanto, 58, 70

997

St. Clair, General, 403, 414-416; defeat,

535

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Specie Circular, 674
Speculation, 673, 674, 676
Stamp Act, 288, 293
Standish, Miles, 66, 72
Stanton, E. M., 848, 969

Stark, John, 248, 317, 330, 393; Ben-
nington, 432

State Department, 346
State Rights influence, 973
Stephenson, Fort, defended, 600
Stephens, A. H., 808, 815, 868
Steuben, Baron de, 446, 498
Stirling, Lord, General, 375
Stockton, Commodore, 737
Stonington bombarded, 628
Stoneman, General, 911, 954
Stony Point taken, 461

Stoughton, William, 178, 191-194
Stringham, Commodore, 841

Stuart, J. E. B., raid, 885, 896, 910;
death, $45

Stuyvesant, Peter, 122-126
Susquehannas, 100, 105
Sub-Treasury, 675

Suffrage, qualification, 986
Sullivan, General John, 312, 358, 373,
391, 421, 453, 458
Sumner, Charles, 974, 979

General, 882, 887, 895
Sumter, General, 472

Fort, 811, 819; the Old Flag,

965

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936-941, 961, 963

Sherman, Roger, 367

Taney, Roger B., 669

Tariffs, 532, 642, 653, 659, 660, 665, 667,
769, 907

Tarleton, Colonel, 468, 489

Wm. T., 845, 905, 922, 932, Taxes, parliamentary, 283, 287, 296;

Shingis, 230, 251

Shiloh, battle of, 860

Sickles, General D., 917

Sigel, Franz, 835, 856, 891, 910
Silk culture, 157, 161

Sioux or Dahcotahs, 9, 202
Slater, Samuel, 534
Slave law, fugitive, 779

representation, 521, 631, 802
trade, 309, 366, 367, 522, 682

Slavery in the colonies, 96, 125, 146,
161, 166, 278, 281

Slavery in the territories, 522, 649, 773,

775, 777, 788

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national, 907

Taylor, Zachary, 570; Mexican war,

695, 699, 702, 706, 721; President,
771, 778

Tea taxed, 295, 301; destroyed, 303
Tecumseh, 575, 600, 603
Telegraph, the, 968

Temperance Movement, 988

Tennent, Rev. William, 224
Territory, North-west, 522
Texas annexation, 684-691
Thames, battle, 603
Thanksgiving day, 72

Thomas, General, 336, 355, 359
Thomas, Geo. H. Gen., 846, 860, 929,

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Trenton, battle, 392

Truxton, Capt. 552

Tryon, Governor, 350, 405, 460

Tuscaroras, 152, 153

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Trist, N. P., commissioner, 752, 760, 767 Wetherford, the chief, 609, 610

'Pyler, John, 678-692

Uncas, 88, 123, 169

Wheelock, Rev. E., 294

Whigs, 299

Whiskey Insurrection, 541-543

Whitefield, George, 162, 220, 224
White Plains, battle, 382
Whitney, Eli, 656

United colonies of New England, 90 Whittier, J. G., 988

Thirteen, 344

States,

368

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Vigilance Association, 810

Virginia, 40, 45, 96

Volunteers; Mexican War, 705

Wadsworth, Gen.. 944

Waite, Morrison R., 976

Waldron, Major, 209

Walker, Robert J., 793

Walloons, first settlers on Long Is
land, 115

Wampanoags, 169, 172

Wamsutta, death of, 170
Warren, Dr. Joseph, 314, 333

War declared against England, 584

Department, 357

Wars with England, 584-642

England and Spain, 149, 163, 164
Wars, King George's, 219

Indian, 84-83, 97, 103, 105, 117-
122, 189-175, 534, 646, 670
Wars of the Revolution, 311-512
Tripoli, 557

King William's, 208
Washington, Fort, taken, 384

George, youth, 227-229,
230, 232, 237, 260; commander-in-
chief, 325, 337, 355, 380, 383, 385, 392-
393, 413, 421, 423, 451, 466, 500, 515;
retirement, 517, 520; President,
527-546; death, 552

Wilderness, batties of, 943. 944

Wilkinson, James, General, 390, 605,
607, 617

Wilkes, Chas. Capt., 684, 843
Williamsburgh, battle of, 877
William III., 136, 180
Williams, Eunice, 213

Colonel E., 249, 250

O. H., 491

Roger, 78, 79, 85, 91, 175
College, 592

Wilmot Proviso, 772

Wilson, Gen., 946

Wilson, Henry, 972

Wilson's Creek, battle of, 835

Winchester, Gen., 599

Winder, General, 623-625

Winslow, Edward, 66, 69, 71, 79

Winthrop, John, 76

John, jr., 168

Wise, Rev. John, 179

Witchcraft, Salem, 188-194
Witherspoon, Dr. 307
Wolfe, James, 257, 263-265

Wool, John E., 591, 706, 717, 712, 728,
840

Wooster, General, 339, 406

Worth, William J., 706, 709, 713, 749.
757, 761

Writs of Assistance, 283
Wyoming, ruin of, 454; revenged, 458

Yamasees, 152, 154

Yeamans, Sir John, 143, 146
Yeardley, George, 55, 98
York, taken, 606

Yorktown, siege of, 503-505; 2d siege,
875

Youthful Nation, 529
Yulee's letter, 813

Zenger, John Peter, 187
Zollicoffer, Gen, 846

APPENDIX.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

WE the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America.

ARTICLE I.

SECTION. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

SECTION. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware

one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole Power of impeachment.

SECTION. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one-third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.

No Person shall be a Senator w1) shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and beer. nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds of the Members present.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and Disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honour, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

SECTION. 4. The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of chusing Senators.

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and

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