The National Political Manual

THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY 973 T7ln 1872. - Return this book on or before the Latest Date stamped below. University of Illinois Library TT— ffiN -| ^7 lorn JmN 2fi is 1-3 o St APR - ^ ^^ L161—H41 ^ 1/ rj.,- , ',.^:,:.,' tiir.j „•,/. I'a ! ; : THE LD LAG. ,,\\ sti\l waves. Forever float that standard sheet." NEW YORK E. B. TREAT, Publisher, No. 805 Broadway. lIBRARv UrîVERSnV 01- ilUNOIS THE NATIONAL POLITICAL MANUAL, COMPEISINa FACTS A]SrD FIGUEES, HISTOEIOAL, DOOUMENTAEY, STATISTICAL, POLITICAL, FROM THE FORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. "WITH A PULL OHRONOLOGT OF TEE EEBSLLIOlf. FROM OFFICIAL AND OTHER SOURCES. By E. I]. TREAT. ILLUSTRATED. NEW YORK: E. B. TREAT, 805 BROADWAY. IT. C. WRIGHT, ST. LOUIS, MO.; IRA S. SMITH, ClIICACrO, ILL.; RANDALL & FISH, DETROIT, MICH. ; A. L. BANCROFT & CO., SAN FRAKCISCO, CAL. 1872. 187-2, by Entered, according to Act of Congresg, in the year E. B. TREA.T, Washington. In the office of the Librarian of CongTess at POOLK * MACLAUCHLAN, PKINTEllS, 205 to 213 Plast lith St. ; \ \\ rsr\. o ^ PREFACE 00 » » » >- ^ This book appeals to the patriotic sentiments of all classes of readers. In its pages will be found those words of burning eloquence which lighted the fires of the American devolution, stirring the hearts of our fathers to do battle for our independence the words of wisdom which brought our ship of state safely through the storms of strife into the calms of peace, and all of the most important speeches and 5^ proclamations of our statesmen which guided our >^ country during critical periods of our political life. ^ It is a book of our country as a whole ; all must 1 ' read it with emotions of gratitude and pride at the • ^ grandeur and stability of our institutions as exempli- fied by the eloquent words of the statesmen and 50 leading spirits of the great Republic. First in its pages, appropriately, will ) be found '^ the " Declaration of Independence," the great corner I i Voy iO VI PREFACE. stone of American liberty; and as a fitting close, one of our most distinguished historians has furnished a " History of the Flag,"—the Flag of the Union, the sacred emblem around which are clus- tered the memories of the thousands of heroes who have struc:ffled to sustain it untarnished ag-ainst both foreign and domestic foes. To the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and "Washington's Farewell Address—truly " Key lôtes to American Liberty "—have been added many important proclamations and congressional acts of a later day, namely : President Jackson's famous JSTulliiication Proclamation to South Caro- lina, The Monroe Doctrine, Dred Scott Decision, lêutrality laws, with numerous documents, state papers and statistical matter growing out of the late Pebellion ; all of which will be read with new and ever increasing interest. And as long as our Republic endures, tliese pages will be cherished as the representative of all that is great and good in our country ; and will prove incentives to our chil- dren to follow in the footsteps of the patriots by whose genius and valor our institutions have been cherished and preserved, and liberty, like water nâde to rim throughout the land free to all. CONTENTS. FASH DiXLARATION OF InDEPENDEJTCE 9 Constitution of the United States 18 Amendments to the Constitution 39 Constitutional Amendment Abolishing Slayery. ... 44 Amendment concerning Reconstruction, Rights of Citizens, &c 48 The Ordnance of 1787 51 The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1793 53 The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850 55 The Missouri Compromise 67 Constitutional Ajuendment—No Distinction in Color 68 Battles of the Revolution 69 Inaugural Address of George Washington 70 Washington's Farewell Address 77 President Jackson's Proclamation to South Carolina 105 Monroe Doctrine 144 Dred Scott Decision 14G Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States, with the Popular Vote for Each 154 Popular Names of States IGG Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, for Thirteen Years, ending June 1st, 1872. 167 Neutrality Law of the United States 168 -'Population of the United States at each De.cade FOR Half a Century 176 Population of our Largest Cities (New Census) 177 Slavp: Population in the United States in I860.. 178 •^Statistics of Slavery before the Revolution 178 Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, —His Last Words for the Union 179 T'i!i:siDENT Lincoln's First Call for Troops.. 180 ToiAL NuMiJEu OF Troops called into Service during •iiii: Rebellion 188 VIU CONTENTS. PAGB Resolutions of the N. Y. Chamber op Commerce. 189 Blockade Proclamation, by President Lincoln 194 Emancipation Proclamation 197 Confiscation Act 201 First Inaugural Address of President Lincoln 204 Balance Sheet op the Government, before and since the War, 1859 and 1865 221 President Lincoln's Second and Last Inaugural Address 222 President Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty 226 President Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation 232 President Johnson's Peace Proclamation 237 The Civil Rights Bill 239 Freedmen's Bureau Bill. 248 Provost Marshal-General's Report of the Killed AND Wounded during the Rebellion 261 The United States Army, showing the number op men furnished from each State during the Rebellion 265 History of the Flag 266 Important Events op the Rebellion 274 Chronological Table op the Battles and Skir- mishes OP THE War,—showing the Commanding Officers and Loss on each side 280 List op Vessels Captured and Destroyed for Vio- lation OP the Blockade or in Battle 319 Union Vessels Captured or Destroyed by the dif- ferent Confederate Privateers 353 The Bankruptcy Act 363 Statistics of the States and Territories 367 The Popular Electoral Vote op 1860 and 1864, 1868. 370 Party Platforms for the Campaign op 1872 373 *> NATIOIAL HAND-BOOK DECLAEATION OF INDEPENDENOi:. In Congeess, July 4, 1776. B^ the Bepreseniaiives oftJie United States, in Congress asseml)led, A DECLARATION. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and" of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 1* 10 NATIONAL HAND-BOOK. We hold these truths to be self-evident : —that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long estab- lished should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security Such has been the patient sufferance of these col- onies; and such is now the necessity which con strains them to alter their former system of govern- DECLARATION OF ENDEPENDENCE. 11 ment. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws the most whole- some and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accom- modation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature—a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the deposi- tory of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly "firmness, his invasions on the right of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such disso- lutions, to cause others to be elected : wherebv the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have — ; 12 RATIONAL HAND-BOOK. returned to the people at large for tlieir exercise the State remaiaing, iu the mean time, exposed to allthe danger of invasion from without and convul- sions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obsticueting the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, hy refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.

Load more