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                               THE FALL
                                OF THE
                            GREAT REPUBLIC.

                                BOSTON:
                           ROBERTS BROTHERS.
                                 1886.




                          _Copyright_, 1885,
                         BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

                           University Press:
                    JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.




                               THE FALL
                                OF THE
                            GREAT REPUBLIC.
                              (1886–88.)

                                  BY
                     SIR HENRY STANDISH COVERDALE
         (_Intendant for the Board of European Administration
                    in the Province of New York._)

          “O Liberty! Liberty! How many crimes are committed
                             in thy name!”

          _By Permission of the Bureau of Press Censorship._

                               NEW YORK:
                                 1895.




CONTENTS.


                                                    PAGE

     I. INTRODUCTORY.--THE “HARD TIMES”
          OF 1882–1887                                 7

    II. THE MORAL INTERREGNUM                         15

   III. THE SOCIALISTIC POISON                        27

    IV. THE RULE OF IRELAND IN AMERICA                32

     V. THE FIRST ERUPTION                            51

    VI. ANXIOUS FOREBODINGS                           77

   VII. THE REVOLUTIONISTS’ MASTER-STROKE             86

  VIII. THE REIGN OF ANARCHY                          96

    IX. ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE GOVERNMENT              103

     X. THE LAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
          STATES                                     115

    XI. A PRECIOUS TRIUMVIRATE                       124

   XII. WAR WITH ENGLAND                             128

  XIII. CAPTURE OF BOSTON                            141

   XIV. THE EUROPEAN COALITION                       159

