. 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. beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shallalso carry with me the hope, that my country will never cease t
. 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. beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shallalso carry with me the hope, that my country will never cease to view them withindulgence; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service withan upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, asmyself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that ferventlove towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of him-self and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expecta-tion, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet en-joyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence ofgood laws under a free Government—the ever fayorite object of my heart—and thehappy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. GEORGE States, Ijth September^ 1^ o O C/2< C HI—I Ph <:u
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