. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. rebellion, reconstruction of the Union, manumission of 4,000,000slaves, raising of a paper currency from 38 per cent, to par, pay-ment in coin of
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. rebellion, reconstruction of the Union, manumission of 4,000,000slaves, raising of a paper currency from 38 per cent, to par, pay-ment in coin of all national obligations, raising of governmentcredit from where 6 per cent, bonds sold at Z6 to where 4 percent, bonds sold at par, increase of railways from 31,000 miles ini860 to 82,000 in 1879, increase of foreign trade from ;^700,000,-000 to ;^1,150,000,000, and of exports from ;^20,000,000 less thanour imports in i860 to ;^264,ooo,ooo more than our imports in1880, revival of depressed industries. (2) Pledge of similaraction for the future; to pay soldiers pensions; to further re-duce the debt, to encourage commerce. (3) The Constitutionthe supreme law; boundary between reserved and delegatedpowers to be determined by the nation, not by the States. (4)Favored popular education; no appropriation of school funds tosectarian uses. (5) Protective duties; no land grants to corpora-tions ; extinction of polygamy; internal improvement; obliga-. WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.
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