George Makepeace Towle

"To have framed a constitution was showing only, without realizing, the general happiness. This great work remained to be done; and America, steadfast in her preference, with one will summoned her beloved Washington, unpractised as he was in the duties of civil administration, to execute this last act in the completion of the national felicity." Thus spoke Gen. Henry Lee, the funeral orator of Washington, and the father of a later and more famous Lee, who fought to destroy the national felicity of which his father spoke.

[Test of the Constitution.]

[The Period of Political Settlement.]

[An Era of Peace.]

[Andrew Jackson.]

[Slavery Inherited.]

[The Civil War.]

[Number of Presidents.]

[A Twofold Progress.]

by George Makepeace Towle

[English Literature.]

[Majority of Authors from New England.]

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