PAGR. Wm. II. Harrison, 9th President... John Tyler, Vice-President, ilud 10tr: President... Goo. M. Dallas, Vice-President. . Zachary Taylor, 12th President Millard Fillinore, Vice-President, and 13th President. Franklin Pierce, 14th l’resident... James Birchanan, 15th President. Jolin C. Breckenridge, Vice-President. Abraham Lincoln, löith President... Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President. Andrew Johnson, Vice-President, and 17th President. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President.. Schuyler Collax, Vice-President, Henry Wilson, Vice-President... Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President.. 229 The Declaration of Independence, and signers. .. The Articles of Confederation of tlie United Colonies of America... 57 Tlie Constitution of the United States. Constitutional Amendment-, - fifteen. Washington's Inangiral Address.. Washington's Farewell Address. The First Prayer in Congress... Slave Ordinances of 1797, 1820, 1850, and 1851. Jackson's Nulification Proclamation to S. C... The Neutrality Law of the U. S.. Hou. S. A. Douglas' great Cnion Speech. Alien and Seditiou Laws of the U. S.. Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address.... Lincolu's First Call for Troops. War Resolution of N. Y, Chamber of Commerce. The Emancipatiou Proclamation.. The Coutiscation Act of the Rebellion... Lincolu's Second Inangural Address. President Jolinson's Amnesty Proclamation. Electoral Commission Act of Congress... Table of Battles of the Revolution, giving the dates and places of engagement, the commanding officer on each side, numbers eu- 139 140 143 143 commanding officers on each side, number engaged, and loss.... 165 166 manding officers, losing sta PAGZ. Population of U. S., Census at each decade...... 1870 Census of 100 largest cities List of principal Treaties of the U.8.. Table showing the Number of Troops furnished by each State dur- Table showing the number of men ealled into rervice, 1861–65. 344 Provost Marshal General's Report of the Killed and Wounded dur- What ihe Civil War cost. 1861-65.. 880 307 Patents granted to each mechanical device, for example : 2,295 394 308 397 398 414 453 486 496 FINANCIAL The Expenses of the Government for each year, from 1791 to the The National Debt for each year since 1791.. The Exports and Imports of the U. S. for each year since 1791. 144 The Debts of twenty leading Foreign Nations as compared with that 391 899 808 1791..... POLITICAL Electoral Vote for President and Vice-President, 1st and 2nd term of the first (Washington's) Administration.. The Party Candidates and Électoral Vote of each of the 2d (Adam's) The same of the 3d (Jefferson's) Administration. The party Candidates, Popular and Electoral Vote of each for Presi- dent and Vice-President of the 6th (J. Q. Adams') Administration 178 The same of the 7th (Jackson's) Administration.... 9th (Harrison and Tyler's) Administration.... 190 10th (Polk's) Administration.... 11th (Taylor and Fillmore's) Administration. 200 12th (Pierce's) Administration.... 13th (Buchanan's) Administration.. 14th (Lincoln and Johnson's) Administration.... 214 18th (Grant's) Administration....... 16th (Havce) Administration... Appendix giving Political matter pertaining to the Campaign of 1880. AMERICAN PROGRESS. On the 22d of February, 1732, or, as it was then des ignated, the 11th of February, in a small, Birth of Wash- but comfortable farm-house on the shore lngton. of the Potomac, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia, was born the oldest child of Mary and Augustine Washington. Little did the parents imagine that the name which they should select for this boy would become celebrated in history, oratory, and poetry, and be a household word in many lands and in many languages. There was nothing in the outward appearance to indicate such a glory. The Washingtons were, indeed, a respectable family of the English aristocracy. The great-grandfather of the little boy was an English knight, who, however, made no use of his title after coming to the wilds of Virginia. They possessed large estates and a plenty of servants, and commanded all the comforts that could well be secured v the new province so far away from the centres of civilized life. But there was no prospect that this little American infant would inherit a title of nobility, and the prophecy of his achieving a distinction that should leap over national boundaries, and command the eulogies of the best minds in all countries, would have been regarded as the foolish fancying of a necromancer unworthy of a moment's hearing But at this time there was a notable American who was soon to be regarded as the foremost Benjamin philosopher of his generation, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin. Already he had struggled up through great difficulties and made himself an accomplished scholar. His “Poor Richard's Almanac" was in thousands of homes. He was improving the fire department and the government of Philadelphia. He was planning for the foundation of a university. He was just about to enter upon some investigations of that mysterious force which attracts light bodies to amber and glass when rubbed, then repels them, and was soon to succeed in quietly drawing down Jove's thunderbolt from heaven, and thus write his name in the sky, to be read of all men. But the little infant,. whom we have left, as yet unnamed, knew nothing of all that. Like other babies, he was passing through the first of the Seven Ages of man: • Mewling and puking in his parse's arms." |
