TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
1. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break.
2. Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the text.
3. Obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
4. The following misprints have been corrected:
"Wahington" corrected to "Washington" (page 190)
"Breeze" corrected to "Breese" (page 273)
"1809-1861" corrected to "1809-1865" (page 282)
5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.