Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . 4, 19013, 1900 * Vacancy Senate: RepublicansDemocrats .All others .. (a) At large. CLASSIFICATION. House of Representatives:54 Republicans 30 Democrats 3 All others Total (Three vacancies.) 87 200152 Total 357 889 FEDERAX HALL—FEDEKAL UNION on the northeast corner of Wall andNassau streets. This buildinghad fallen into decay when thefirst national Congress was aboutto meet there. Desirous of per-manently retaining the seat ofthe national government at NewYork, and to provide the
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . 4, 19013, 1900 * Vacancy Senate: RepublicansDemocrats .All others .. (a) At large. CLASSIFICATION. House of Representatives:54 Republicans 30 Democrats 3 All others Total (Three vacancies.) 87 200152 Total 357 889 FEDERAX HALL—FEDEKAL UNION on the northeast corner of Wall andNassau streets. This buildinghad fallen into decay when thefirst national Congress was aboutto meet there. Desirous of per-manently retaining the seat ofthe national government at NewYork, and to provide the nationallegislature with suitable accom-modations, several wealthy cit-izens advanced to the city treas-ury (then empty) $32,500, withwhich the old building was re-modelled and extensively repair-ed. The name Federal Hall wasgiven to it, and the city councilsplaced it at the disposal of theFederal Hall. The Continental Con- Congress. New York retained the nation-gress, when sitting in New York, had al capitol only a short time, as it wasbeen accommodated in the old City Hall, removed to Philadelphia in FKDERAL HALL. FEDERAL UNION, THE Federal Union, The. John Fiske the world grows, the more varied our ex- (q. v.), the eminent historian, contributes perience of practical politics, the more the following essay, originally delivered comprehensive our survey of universal as a lecture in London, England: history, the stronger our grasp upon the comparative method of inquiry, the more The great history of Thucydides, which brilliant is the light thrown upon thatafter twenty-three centuries still ranks brief day of Athenian greatness, and the(in spite of Mr. Cobden) among our chief more wonderful and admirable does it alltext-books of political wisdom, has often seem. To see this glorious communityseemed to me one of the most mournful overthrown, shorn of half its virtue (tobooks in the world. At no other spot on use the Homeric phrase), and thrust dovfnthe earths surface, a
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