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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

    XV. THE ALLIES ATTACK NEW YORK                   171

   XVI. THE FINAL STRUGGLE                           192

  XVII. FOREIGN OCCUPATION                           198


APPENDIX.

     I. THE SOCIALISTIC SPIRIT IN 1885               207

    II. A REVOLUTION NEAR AT HAND.--“IT
          MUST COME”                                 209

   III. A FEMALE SOCIALIST’S ADVICE                  211

    IV. ATHEISM, COMMUNISM, AND ANARCHY              212

     V. THE FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST CIVILIZATION      213

    VI. THE PROSPECTS OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN
          DYNAMITERS AND COMMUNISTS                  214

   VII. TWO CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMS                  215

  VIII. THE COURTS.--ONE JOURNALISTIC WARNING
          OUT OF MANY                                217

    IX. THE UNPROTECTED ATLANTIC COAST               218

     X. A SINGLE ILLUSTRATION OF THE IRISH-AMERICAN
          SPIRIT                                     219

    XI. THE ARMY OF THE DISCONTENTED                 222

   XII. DEFENDING DYNAMITE ASSASSINATION             223




THE FALL OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC.




I.

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


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