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PREFACE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Colonial Parties—Whig and Tory.

The Particularists.

Strong Government Whigs

The Federal and Anti-Federal Parties.

The Republican and Federal Parties.

Downfall of the Federal Party.

Democrats and Federals.

The Hartford Convention.

Treaty of Ghent.

The Protective Tariff.

The Monroe Doctrine.

The Missouri Compromise.

American, Whig, Republican and Democratic Nominations of 1856.

“Republican Association of Washington.

The Kansas Struggle.

The Lincoln and Douglas Debate.

Lecompton Constitution.

The Topeka Constitution.

The Douglas Amendment.

The Charleston Convention.

The Chicago Republican Convention.

The American Convention.

Preparing for Secession.

Proceedings of Virginia Convention.

Inter-State Commissioners.

Southern Congress.

Proceedings of the Southern Congress.

The Confederate States.

The Crittenden Compromise.

The Peace Convention.

Transfer of U. S. Arms South In 1859–60.

Mayor Wood’s Secession Message.

Congress on the Eve of the Rebellion.

Lincoln’s First Administration.

The President’s Appeal to the Border States.

Emancipation as a War Necessity.

Proclamation of Sept. 22, 1862.

Proclamation of January 1, 1863.

Address of loyal Governors to the President.

Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law.

Third Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Seward as Secretary of State.

Financial Legislation—Internal Taxes.

First Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

First Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

The Confederate Debt.

Confederate Taxes.

Admitting West Virginia.

COLOR IN WAR POLITICS.

Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Third Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.

First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Admission of Representatives from Louisiana.

Lincoln’s Proclamation on Reconstruction

Admission of Arkansas.

TEXT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION MEASURES. 14th Constitutional Amendment.

Reconstruction Act of Thirty-Ninth Congress.

Supplemental Reconstruction Act of Fortieth Congress.

Gen. McClellan’s Letters.

Lincoln’s Second Administration.

Andrew Johnson.

Johnson’s Policy.

Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson.

Grant.

The Enforcement Acts.

Readmission of Rebellious States.

The Legal Tender Decision.

The Greenback Party.

The Prohibitory Party.

Annexation of San Domingo.

Amendatory Enforcement Acts.

The Alabama Claims.

The Force Bill.

President Hayes’s Civil Service Order.

Amnesty.

The Liberal Republicans.

Civil Service Reform.

The Credit Mobilier.

The “Salary Grab.”

Statement of Compensation and Mileage.

Returning Boards.

The Grangers.

Illinois Railroad Act of 1873.

Supplementary Civil Rights Bill.

The Morton Amendment.

The Whisky Ring.

Impeachment of Belknap.

The White League.

Text of the Wheeler Compromise.

Election of Hayes and Wheeler.

The Electoral Count.

Members of the Commission.

The Title of President Hayes.

The Cipher Despatches.

Report of the Judiciary Committee.

The Hayes Administration.

The Negro Exodus.

Closing Hours of the Hayes Administration.

The Campaign of 1880.

The Three Per Cent. Funding Bill.

History of the National Loans.

James A. Garfield.

Republican Factions.

The Caucus.

Assassination of President Garfield.

President Arthur.

“Boss Rule.”

The Readjusters.

Suppressing Mormonism.

The South American Question.

Minister Logan’s Reply.

The Star Route Scandal.

The Coming States.

The Chinese Question.

Abstracts from the Text of Senator Miller’s Speech.

Reply of Senator Geo. P. Hoar.

Our Merchant Marine.

Current Politics.

POLITICAL CHANGES IN 1882.

The Independent Republican Revolt In Pennsylvania.

POLITICAL CHANGES—1883.

POLITICAL CHANGES—1884.

Candidates for the Nomination.

The Democratic National Convention.

The Contest over the Platform.

The Ballots.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1884.

Cleveland’s Administration.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1886.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1887.

OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1888.

President Cleveland’s Message.

Mr. Blaine’s Answer to Cleveland.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS OF 1888.

The Democratic Convention.

The Republican Convention.

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1888.

ANALYSIS OF THE POPULAR VOTE.

PRESIDENT HARRISON’S MESSAGE ON THE CHILEAN TROUBLES.

The National Conventions of 1892.

Virginia Resolutions of 1798.

Answers of the several State Legislatures.

Resolutions of 1798 and 1799.

Washington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United States, Sept. 17, 1796.

1830.—Anti-masonic resolution,

1832.—National Democratic Platform, adopted at a ratification Meeting,

1839.—Abolition Resolution,

1872.—Labor Reform Platform.

Virginia Republican.

COMPARISON OF PLATFORM PLANKS ON GREAT POLITICAL QUESTIONS.

The Rebellion.

Home Rule.

Internal Improvements.

The National Debt and Interest, the Public Credit, Repudiation, etc.

Resumption.

Capital and Labor.

Tariff.

Education.

Duty to Union Soldiers and Sailors.

Naturalization and Allegiance.

The Chinese.

Civil Service.

The Tariff Issue of 1884.

The Tariff and Revenue, 1888.

Civil Service Reform, 1888.

Pensions, Etc., 1888.

Pauper Labor.

Foreign Policy, 1888.

THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE.

1892.—Republican National Platform.

1892.—Democratic National Platform.

The Tariff Issue, 1892.

The Reciprocity Issue, 1892.

The Silver Issue, 1892.

The Ballot Issue, 1892.

Civil Service, 1892.

The Third or People’s Party.

The Ballot.

People’s Party Platform.

Speech of James Wilson,

Speech of Patrick Henry,

Supposed Speech of John Adams in favor of the Declaration of Independence.

Speech of Patrick Henry,

Speech of John Randolph

Edward Everett.

Close of the Speech of Daniel Webster

John Randolph on the other side of Same Question.

Extract from Mr. Hayne’s Speech against the Tariff Bill, in Congress,

Mr. Clay’s Speech on his Public Lands Bill.

Speech of John C. Calhoun,

Speech of Hon. Robt. Y. Hayne

Webster’s Great Reply to Hayne,

John C. Calhoun on the Rights of the States.

Speech of Henry Clay

Mr. Buchanan’s Speech on the Independent Treasury,

Lewis Cass on the Missouri Compromise.

Clement L. Vallandigham on Slavery.

Henry A. Wise

Kenneth Raynor, of North Carolina, on Fusion of Fremont and Fillmore Forces.

Religious Test.

Speech of Henry W. Davis, of Maryland,

Joshua R. Giddings Against the Fugitive Slave Law.

Robert Toombs on Slavery,

Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana,

William Lloyd Garrison Upon the Slavery Question.

Theodore Parker Against the Fugitive Slave Law.

William H. Seward’s Speech on the Higher Law.

Charles Sumner on the Fallibility of Judicial Tribunals.

Galusha A. Grow’s Speech on the Homestead Bill.

Lincoln and Douglas.

Mr. Lincoln’s Reply.

Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi,

Speech of the Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts

Speech of Senator Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana,

Speech of Hon. J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky,

Henry Carey’s Speech on the Rates of Interest.

Speech of Gen. Simon Cameron.

Speech of Hon. John A. Logan,

Speech of Hon. James G. Blaine, of Maine,

Speech of Roscoe Conkling.

Lincoln’s Speech at Gettysburg.

Speech of Hon. John M. Broomall, of Pennsylvania,

Speech, of Hon. Charles A. Eldridge, of Wisconsin.

Hon. A. K. McClure on What of the Republic?

Robert G. Ingersoll, of Illinois,

Roscoe Conkling, of New York,

James A. Garfield, of Ohio,

Daniel Dougherty, of Pennsylvania,

George Gray, of Delaware,

Frye Nominating Blaine.

Senator Hill’s Denunciation of Senator Mahone.

Senator Mahone’s Reply to Senator Hill

Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont,

Speech of Hon. J. D. Cameron, of Penna.

Extracts from Speech of Hon. Thomas H. Benton,

Mr. Blaine’s Oration.

RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SENATE AND EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

THE GREAT TARIFF CAMPAIGN OF 1888.

The Tariff Speech of Samuel J. Randall.

Tariff Speech of Major Wm. McKinley, Jr.,

Speech of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.

Speech of Hon. Leon Abbett.

Declaration of Independence.

Articles of Confederation.

Ordinance of 1787.

Constitution of the United States of America,

Articles in Addition to, and Amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America,

Ratifications of the Amendments to the Constitution.

INTEREST LAWS OF ALL THE STATES AND TERRITORIES IN THE UNITED STATES.

AGGREGATE ISSUES OF PAPER MONEY IN WAR TIMES.

ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS

STATES AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.

THE CUSTOMS TARIFF OF GREAT BRITAIN.

PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS.

SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, 1789–1888.

CABINET OFFICERS OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS.

SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED JULY 4th, 1776.

ANTE-WAR DEBTS OF THE SEVERAL STATES.

CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT,

NUMBER OF ELECTORAL VOTES TO WHICH EACH STATE HAS BEEN ENTITLED, AT EACH ELECTION, 1789–1880.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

LENGTH OF SESSIONS OF CONGRESS, 1789–1891.

CIVIL OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES

THE STATES AND TERRITORIES—when Admitted or Organized—with Area and Population.

SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Table, exhibiting, by States, the Aggregate Troops called for by the President, and furnished to the Union Army, from April 15th, 1861, to close of War of Rebellion

STATEMENT SHOWING THE EXPENDITURES,

NATIONAL DEBTS, EXPENDITURE AND COMMERCE, PER CAPITA.

STATEMENT

CHRONOLOGICAL POLITICS.

INDEX.

INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.