A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day (1881) (14765354171)

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Title: A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Philadelphia (etc.) Jones brothers & company San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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CHARLES SUMNER. ORANTS ADMINISTRATION. 563 As the Centennial of American Independence drew near, thepeopk .nadc ready to celebrate the great event w.th approbateoCemonies. A hundred years of national prospenty- hough notn clouded by ominous shadows and not unhurt by the devastates
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INDEPENDENCE HALL, 1876. of war-had swept away, and at last the dawn of the centennialmorning was rising in the eastern sky. It was not to be supposedthat the thoughtful and patriotic of the land would alow so ustrousan epoch to go by without impressing upon the present generatmn the 564 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. lesson of the past and the hope of the future. As early as 1866, aproposition was made by Professor John L. Campbell of WabashCollege, that steps should be taken looking to the proper celebrationof the great national anniversary. About the same time the questionof an international exhibition in honor of our independence, wasagitated by the Honorable John Bigelow, a former minister of theUnited States to France. A correspondence was soon afterwardbegun and carried on by the Honorable Morton McMichael, Mayorof Philadelphia, Senator Henry S. Lane of Indiana, M. R. Muckle ofPennsylvania, and General Charles B. Norton, who had served as acommissioner of the United States at th