American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date
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- AMERICAN POLITICS (NON-PARTISAN) FROM THE BEGINNING TO DATE. EMBODYING A HISTORY OF ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES, WITH THEIR VIEWS AND RECORDS ON ALL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. GREAT SPEECHES ON ALL GREAT ISSUES, AND TABULATED HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS.
- PREFACE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BOOK I. HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
- 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 RITUAL.
- RULES AND REGULATIONS.
- SPECIAL VOTING.
- FORM OF DISMISSION FROM ONE COUNCIL TO ANOTHER.
- FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR DELEGATES TO THE STATE COUNCIL.
- FORM OF NOTICE
- OUTSIDE.
- OBLIGATION.
- INSIDE.
- OBLIGATION.
- OBLIGATION.
- OBLIGATION.
- CHARGE.
- American, Whig, Republican and Democratic Nominations of 1856.
- “Republican Association of Washington.
- The Kansas Struggle.
- The Lincoln and Douglas Debate.
- Lecompton Constitution.
- Article VII.—Slavery.
- Free Negroes.
- Article VIII.—Elections and Rights of Suffrage.
- The Topeka Constitution.
- Slavery.
- Amendments to the Constitution.
- Submission of Constitution to the People.
- The Douglas Amendment.
- The Charleston Convention.
- The Chicago Republican Convention.
- The American Convention.
- THE PRINCIPLES INVOLVED.
- Preparing for Secession.
- SOUTH CAROLINA.
- GEORGIA.
- MISSISSIPPI.
- FLORIDA.
- LOUISIANA.
- ALABAMA.
- ARKANSAS.
- TEXAS.
- NORTH CAROLINA.
- TENNESSEE.
- VIRGINIA.
- Proceedings of Virginia Convention.
- KENTUCKY.
- MARYLAND.
- MISSOURI.
- Inter-State Commissioners.
- South Carolina.
- Alabama.
- Georgia.
- Mississippi.
- Southern Congress.
- South Carolina.
- Alabama.
- Florida.
- Mississippi.
- Georgia.
- Louisiana.
- Texas.
- Proceedings of the Southern Congress.
- The Confederate States.
- The Crittenden Compromise.
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
- The Peace Convention.
- IMPORTANT TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
- Transfer of U. S. Arms South In 1859–60.
- OTHER ITEMS.
- Mayor Wood’s Secession Message.
- Congress on the Eve of the Rebellion.
- SENATE.
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
- MR. LINCOLN’S VIEWS.
- JUDGE BLACK’S VIEWS.
- SPEECH OF ALEX. H. STEPHENS.
- Lincoln’s First Administration.
- REPLIES OF SOUTHERN STATE GOVERNORS TO LINCOLN’S CALL FOR 75,000 TROOPS.
- ALL OTHER CALLS FOR TROOPS.
- UNION MILITARY LEGISLATION.
- “CONFEDERATE” MILITARY LEGISLATION.
- GUERRILLAS.
- THE TWENTY-NEGRO EXEMPTION LAW.
- THE POSITION OF DOUGLAS.
- THE POLITICAL LEGISLATION INCIDENT TO THE WAR.
- MEMBERS OF THE 37TH CONGRESS.
- SENATORS.
- REPRESENTATIVES.
- MEMORANDUM OF CHANGES.
- IN SENATE.
- IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION
- The President’s Appeal to the Border States.
- REPLY OF THE MAJORITY.
- 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.
- Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.[22]
- Third Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.
- REPEALING BILLS.
- Seward as Secretary of State.
- Financial Legislation—Internal Taxes.
- INTERNAL TAXES.
- First Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- First Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.
- Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- THE TARIFF ACT OF 1864.
- Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- TAXES IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS, 1864.
- The Confederate Debt.
- CONDITION OF THE TREASURY, JANUARY 1, 1864.
- ITS CONDITION, MARCH 31, 1864.
- Confederate Taxes.
- THE TAX ACT OF JULY, 1861.
- THE TAX ACT OF DECEMBER 19, 1861.
- THE TAX ACT OF APRIL 24, 1863.
- THE TAX LAW.
- Admitting West Virginia.
- SECOND SESSION, THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
- THIRD SESSION, THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
- COLOR IN WAR POLITICS.
- Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.
- NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN MONTANA TERRITORY.
- IN WASHINGTON CITY.[26]
- Third Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.
- Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
- First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.
- IN HOUSE.
- COLORED SCHOOLS.
- CONFEDERATE USE OF COLORED MEN.
- THE CHANGING SENTIMENT OF CONGRESS.
- NEGROES IN THE ARMY.
- “CONFEDERATE” LEGISLATION UPON NEGRO PRISONERS AND THEIR WHITE OFFICERS WHEN CAPTURED.[27]
- Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
- Admission of Representatives from Louisiana.
- RECONSTRUCTION.
- 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.
- Votes of State Legislatures on the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment.[30]
- LOYAL STATES.
- INSURRECTIONARY STATES.
- PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1864.
- Gen. McClellan’s Letters.
- IN FAVOR OF the ELECTION OF GEORGE W. WOODWARD AS GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.
- Lincoln’s Second Administration.
- Andrew Johnson.
- “THE BLACK CODES.”
- Johnson’s Policy.
- Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson.
- THE PROSECUTION.
- THE DEFENSE.
- 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.
- OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE CREDIT MOBILIER INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
- MR. JAMES G. BLAINE, OF MAINE.
- MR. HENRY L. DAWES, OF MASSACHUSETTS.
- MR. GLENNI W. SCOFIELD, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
- MR. JOHN A. BINGHAM, OF OHIO.
- MR. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
- MR. JAMES A. GARFIELD, OF OHIO.
- MR. JAMES BROOKS, OF NEW YORK.
- The “Salary Grab.”
- Statement of Compensation and Mileage.
- IV.—A Comparative Statement.
- Returning Boards.
- The Grangers.
- Illinois Railroad Act of 1873.
- Supplementary Civil Rights Bill.
- The Morton Amendment.
- “Article —.
- The Whisky Ring.
- Impeachment of Belknap.
- The White League.
- SHERIDAN’S REPORT.
- Text of the Wheeler Compromise.
- JOINT RESOLUTION.
- TEXT OF THE AWARD.
- Election of Hayes and Wheeler.
- The Electoral Count.
- ELECTORAL COMMISSION ACT.
- Members of the Commission.
- The Title of President Hayes.
- The Cipher Despatches.
- OREGON.
- Report of the Judiciary Committee.
- The Hayes Administration.
- THE EXTRA SESSION OF 1879.
- The Negro Exodus.
- Closing Hours of the Hayes Administration.
- The Campaign of 1880.
- BALLOTS.
- 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 TEXT OF THE BILL.
- The South American Question.
- THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN STATES.
- A GENERAL CONGRESS PROPOSED.
- THE MISSION OF THE CONGRESS.
- INSTRUCTIONS TO THE MINISTERS.
- Minister Logan’s Reply.
- CHILI AND PERU.
- THE SCANDAL.
- THE CLAIMS.
- THE LANDREAU CLAIM.
- THE COUNTRIES INVOLVED.
- 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.
- DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.
- MR. INGALLS’ AMENDMENT.
- PASSAGE OF THE BILL.
- PROVISIONS OF THE BILL.
- Our Merchant Marine.
- STRIKING PASSAGES FROM THE PRIZE ESSAY.
- 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.
- REPUBLICAN.
- DEMOCRATIC.
- BOOK II. POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
- 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.
- 1800.—No Federal Platform. Republican Platform, Philadelphia.
- 1801–1811.—No Platforms.
- 1812.—No Republican Platform. No Federal Platform. Clintonian Platform.
- 1815.—Resolutions passed by the Hartford Convention, January 4.
- From 1813–1829.—No Platforms by either political party, except that at Hartford by Federalists, given above.
- 1830.—Anti-masonic resolution,
- 1832.—National Democratic Platform, adopted at a ratification Meeting,
- 1836.—“Locofoco” Platform,
- 1836.—Whig Resolutions,
- 1839.—Abolition Resolution,
- Abolition Platforms.
- 1840.—Democratic Platform,
- 1843.—Liberty Platform.
- 1844.—Whig Platform.
- 1844.—Democratic Platform.
- 1848.—Democratic Platform.
- 1848.—Whig Principles Adopted at a Ratification Meeting,
- 1848.—Buffalo Platform.
- 1852.—Democratic Platform.
- 1852.—Whig Platform.
- 1852.—Free-soil Platform.
- 1856.—The American Platform.
- 1856.—Democratic Platform,
- 1856.—Republican Platform,
- 1856.—Whig Platform.
- 1860.—Constitutional Union Platform.
- 1860.—Republican Platform,
- 1860.—Democratic (Douglas) Platform,
- 1860.—Democratic (Breckinridge) Platform.
- 1864.—Radical Platform.
- 1864.—Republican Platform.
- 1864.—Democratic Platform.
- 1868. Republican Platform.
- 1868.—Democratic Platform.
- 1872.—Labor Reform Platform.
- 1872.—Prohibition Platform.
- 1872.—Liberal Republican Platform.
- 1872.—Democratic Platform.
- 1872.—Republican Platform,
- 1872.—Democratic (Straight-out) Platform,
- 1875.—The American National Platform,
- 1876.—Prohibition Reform Platform,
- 1876.—Independent (Greenback) Platform,
- 1876.—Republican Platform,
- 1876.—Democratic Platform.
- 1878.—National Platform.
- 1879.—National Liberal Platform.
- 1880.—Independent Republican Principles.
- 1880. Republican Platform.
- 1880.—National (Greenback) Platform,
- 1880.—Prohibition Reform Platform,
- 1880.—Democratic Platform,
- Virginia Republican.
- Virginia Readjuster.
- Virginia Democratic.
- 1884—Democratic Platform.
- 1884.—Republican Platform.
- 1888.—Democratic National Platform.
- The Republican National Platform,
- COMPARISON OF PLATFORM PLANKS ON GREAT POLITICAL QUESTIONS.
- General Party Doctrines.
- 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.
- BOOK III. GREAT SPEECHES ON GREAT ISSUES.
- 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.
- Speech of Horace Greeley on the Grounds of Protection.[84]
- 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.
- SENATOR DOUGLAS’S SPEECH.
- Mr. Lincoln’s Reply.
- MR. DOUGLAS’S REPLY.
- Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi,
- Speech of the Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts
- AN ABSTRACT.
- 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
- JOHNSTON TO GOVERNOR WALKER IN 1869.
- Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont,
- THE TARIFF OF 1861.
- THE TARIFF SHIELDED US IN 1873.
- FREE-TRADE PROSPERITY ON THE WANE.
- COMMERCIAL PROTECTION.
- THE FREE-TRADE PROPAGANDISTS OF ENGLAND.
- THE THEORY.
- PRACTICE VERSUS THEORY.
- WHAT THEY MEAN.
- AMERICA VINDICATED BY THOSE WHO COME TO STAY.
- COMMERCIAL RULES NOT A SCIENCE.
- THE BRITISH POLICY EVERYWHERE REJECTED.
- OUR FARMERS.
- Speech of Hon. J. D. Cameron, of Penna.
- Extracts from Speech of Hon. Thomas H. Benton,
- IN MEMORIAM.
- Mr. Blaine’s Oration.
- GARFIELD’S ANCESTORS.
- HIS EARLY DAYS.
- IN THE ARMY.
- IN CONGRESS.
- ORATOR AND DEBATER.
- GARFIELD’S INDUSTRY.
- NOMINATION TO THE PRESIDENCY.
- AS PRESIDENT.
- THE POLITICAL CONTROVERSY.
- GARFIELD’S RELIGION.
- THE ASSASSIN’S BULLET.
- AFTER THE ORATION.
- CIVIL SERVICE. Improvement of the Subordinate Civil Service.
- 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.
- BOOK IV. PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE.
- Declaration of Independence.
- Articles of Confederation.
- ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.
- Ordinance of 1787.
- Constitution of the United States of America,
- ARTICLE I.
- ARTICLE II.
- ARTICLE III.
- ARTICLE IV.
- ARTICLE V.
- Article VI.
- Article VII.
- Articles in Addition to, and Amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America,
- Ratifications of the Constitution.[90]
- Ratifications of the Amendments to the Constitution.
- JEFFERSON’S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. Importance of Rules.
- SEC. I.—IMPORTANCE OF ADHERING TO RULES.
- SEC. II.—LEGISLATURE.
- SEC. III.—PRIVILEGE.
- SEC. IV.—ELECTIONS.
- SEC. V.—QUALIFICATIONS.
- SEC. VI.—QUORUM.
- SEC. VII.—CALL OF THE HOUSE.
- SEC. VIII.—ABSENCE.
- SEC. IX.—SPEAKER.
- SEC. X.—ADDRESS.
- SEC. XI.—COMMITTEES.
- SEC. XII.—COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
- SEC. XIII.—EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES.
- SEC. XIV.—ARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS.
- SEC. XV.—ORDER.
- SEC. XVI.—ORDER RESPECTING PAPERS.
- SEC. XVII.—ORDER IN DEBATE.
- SEC. XVIII.—ORDERS OF THE HOUSE.
- SEC. XIX.—PETITION.
- SEC. XX.—MOTIONS.
- SEC. XXI.—RESOLUTIONS.
- SEC. XXII.—BILLS.
- SEC. XXIII.—BILLS, LEAVE TO BRING IN.
- SEC. XXIV.—BILLS, FIRST READING.
- SEC. XXV.—BILLS, SECOND READING.
- SEC. XXVI.—BILLS, COMMITMENT.
- SEC. XXVII.—REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
- SEC. XXVIII.—BILL, RECOMMITMENT.
- SEC. XXIX.—BILL, REPORTS TAKEN UP.
- SEC. XXX.—QUASI-COMMITTEE.
- SEC. XXXI.—BILL, SECOND READING IN THE HOUSE.
- SEC. XXXII.—READING PAPERS.
- SEC. XXXIII.—PRIVILEGED QUESTIONS.
- SEC. XXXIV.—THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.
- SEC. XXXV.—AMENDMENTS.
- SEC. XXXVI.—DIVISION OF THE QUESTION.
- SEC. XXXVII.—COEXISTING QUESTIONS.
- SEC. XXXVIII.—EQUIVALENT QUESTIONS.
- SEC. XXXIX.—THE QUESTION.
- SEC. XL.—BILLS, THIRD READING.
- SEC. XLI.—DIVISION OF THE HOUSE.
- SEC. XLII.—TITLES.
- SEC. XLIII.—RECONSIDERATION.
- SEC. XLIV.—BILLS SENT TO THE OTHER HOUSE.
- SEC. XLV.—AMENDMENTS BETWEEN THE HOUSES.
- SEC. XLVI.—CONFERENCES.
- SEC. XLVII.—MESSAGES.
- SEC. XLVIII.—ASSENT.
- SEC. XLIX.—JOURNALS.
- SEC. L.—ADJOURNMENT.
- SEC. LI.—A SESSION.
- SEC. LII.—TREATIES.
- SEC. LIII.—IMPEACHMENT.
- BOOK V. TABULATED HISTORY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT.
- ESTIMATE of VALUES of FOREIGN COINS.
- 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.
- George Washington, President.
- John Adams, President.
- Thomas Jefferson, President.
- James Madison, President.
- James Monroe, President.
- John Quincy Adams, President.
- Andrew Jackson, President.
- Martin Van Buren, President.
- Wm. H. Harrison and John Tyler, Presidents.
- James K. Polk, President.
- Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, Presidents.
- Franklin Pierce, President.
- James Buchanan, President.
- Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Presidents.
- Ulysses S. Grant, President.
- Rutherford B. Hayes, President.
- James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.
- Grover Cleveland, President.
- Benjamin Harrison, President.
- 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.
- TOTAL NUMBER OF TROOPS CALLED INTO SERVICE DURING THE REBELLION.[120]
- 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
- Currency Value of Gold.
- CHRONOLOGICAL POLITICS.
- INDEX.
- BOOK I. HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES.
- BOOK II. POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
- COMPARISON OF PLATFORM PLANKS ON GREAT POLITICAL QUESTIONS.
- BOOK III. GREAT SPEECHES ON GREAT ISSUES.
- BOOK IV. PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE, CONSTITUTION, DECLARATION AND ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.
- INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
- BOOK V. TABULATED HISTORY OF POLITICS.
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