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DOCUMENTARY.

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Table of Battles of the Revolution, giving the dates and places of
engagement, the commanding officer on each side, numbers en-
gaged, and loss...

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Our Navy during the Revolutionary War.
Slave Population of the Colonies, 1715..
Slave Population of the U. S. in 1860..
War of 1812; list of battles, with date and place of engagement,
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Naval Battles of the War of 1812, with date, where fought, com-
manding officers, loss, etc...

List of Battles of the Mexican War, with dates and places, com
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Congressional apportionment for each State...

The Vote, by States, for President, 1860, '64, '68, and '72, '76 '80... 496

FINANCIAL.

The Expenses of the Government for each year, from 1791 to the
present time..

The National Debt for each year since 1791.

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POLITICAL.

Electoral Vote for President and Vice-President, 1st and 2nd term of
the first (Washington's) Administration....
The Party Candidates and Electoral Vote of each of the 2d (Adam's)
Administration....

The same of the 3d (Jefferson's) Administration.

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AMERICAN PROGRESS.

On the 22d of February, 1732, or, as it was then designated, the 11th of February, in a small, Birth of Wash-but comfortable farm-house on the shore ington. of the Potomac, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia, was born the oldest child of Mary and Augustine Washington.

Little did the parents imagine that the name which they should select for this boy would become celebrated in history, oratory, and poetry, and be a household word in many lands and in many languages. There was nothing in the outward appearance to indicate such a glory. The Washingtons were, indeed, a respectable family of the English aristocracy. The great-grandfather of the little boy was an English knight, who, however, made no use of his title after coming to the wilds of Virginia. They possessed large estates and a plenty of servants, and commanded all the comforts that could well be secured the new province so far away from the

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centres of civilized life. But there was no prospect that this little American infant would inherit a title of nobility, and the prophecy of his achieving a distinction that should leap over uational boundaries, and command the eulogies of the best minds in all countries, would have been regarded as the foolish fancying of a necromancer unworthy of a moment's hearing.

Benjamin
Franklin.

But at this time there was a notable American who was soon to be regarded as the foremost philosopher of his generation, Benjamin Franklin. Already he had struggled up through great difficulties and made himself an accomplished scholar. His "Poor Richard's Almanac " was in thousands of homes. He was improving the fire department and the government of Philadelphia. He was planning for the foundation of a university. He was just about to enter upon some investigations of that mysterious force which attracts light bodies to amber and glass when rubbed, then repels them, and was soon to succeed in quietly drawing down Jove's thunderbolt from heaven, and thus write his name in the sky, to be read of all men. But the little infant, whom we have left, as yet unnamed, knew nothing of all that. Like other babies, he was passing through the first of the Seven Ages of man:

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Mewling and puking in his nurse's arms."

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