. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. M—y ?. r -to i; ■ .r-*:-M» ^tstvjf-r-. THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF 76 Th« Deci»ion as to the Presidential Election of 1876 is Entrusted to aCourt
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. M—y ?. r -to i; ■ .r-*:-M» ^tstvjf-r-. THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF 76 Th« Deci»ion as to the Presidential Election of 1876 is Entrusted to aCourt Constructed by Congress! From a ijhototjraph taken ot the time THE last aud most dangerous anomaly which sprang fromUk ■carpet-bagger government in the South was thedisjjuted presidential election of 1876. So much of cor-ruption and misrule had arisen under the shelter of the domi-nant party, that its Democratic opponents became numerousaud the election of 1876 was very hotly contested. So closewas tlie electoral vote that the presidency depended on thevote of three Southern States where there was still carpet-bag rule. Each of these States sent in two reports, its lead-ers, both Democratic and Republican, claiming to be the law-ful government and to have carried the State for their presi-dential candidate. The Republican government at Washing-ton soutrht to recognize its own partisans in each State, butwith so little justice that the incensed Democrats threatenedto resist by
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