Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . cansfled from the capital, and the victorious American army marched in and tookpossession of the city, September 14, 1847. Here Scott and his noble war-riors rested until the treaty was concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo, February2, 1848, and peace was proclaimed, July 4, by President Polk. Guadalupe
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . cansfled from the capital, and the victorious American army marched in and tookpossession of the city, September 14, 1847. Here Scott and his noble war-riors rested until the treaty was concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo, February2, 1848, and peace was proclaimed, July 4, by President Polk. GuadalupeHidalgo, New Mexico, and California were ceded to the United States,$15,000,000 paid to Mexico, and the debts due from Mexico to American citi-zens were assumed by the United States. The Civil War. — It is not here the place to rehearse or to discuss thecauses which led to Americas Civil War, a war perhaps the most stupendousrecorded in history. Looking backward, after the bloody foot-prints havebeen well nigh obliterated by the growth of a generation, we can see that thetrend of human progress, the political problems confronting the federatedStates, in the solution of which were evolved elements of discord, the inher-ited antagonism between the Puritans of the North and the Cavaliers of the. ROBERT E. LEE AT CHAPULTEP 382 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY South, all combined to make the conflict inevitable. For more than a decadeof years grievances had been growing and rumblings were heard, like the im-prisoned tires beneath the surface of the earth, until the election of AbrahamLincoln as President, pledged to a policy believed to be inimical to the South,caused the outburst of the volcano, whose fierce fires and molten lava for fouryears spread desolation over the land. Time and milder judgment have very nearly smoothed away the wrinklesof discord, and the close of the century finds the nation a reunited people,whose new compact is written in the life-blood of her
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