[Illustration: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.]

"Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,
New birth of our new soil, the first American."
--LOWELL.

A SHORT HISTORY

OF

A SHORT HISTORY

OF

THE UNITED STATES

FOR SCHOOL USE

BY

EDWARD CHANNING

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR OF "A STUDENTS' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," ETC.

A SHORT HISTORY

OF

THE UNITED STATES

FOR SCHOOL USE

BY

EDWARD CHANNING

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITYAUTHOR OF "A STUDENTS' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," ETC.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR OF "A STUDENTS' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," ETC.