Narrative And Critical History Of America Vol 7

Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365884620
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 7 written by Justin Winsor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 7: Part II State, War, the Treasury, the post-office, and the Judiciary were organized, and a light-house and customs-revenue systems were begun the first steps were taken toward the establishment of the census, naturaliza tion, patents and copyrights, territorial government, pensions, and inter course with the Indian tribes. Provision was also made for the settlement of the present national capital at Washington, and the national and State debts were provided for (1790) arrangements were adopted for the admis sion of the new States of Kentucky and Vermont, and the first Bank of the United States was chartered the mint and coinage, the consular service, and the militia were regulated (1792) and interstate extradition of fugitives from justice and fugitive slaves was provided for Ratification by North Carolina and Rhode Island made the orig inal number of States again complete; and the first ten amendments to the Constitution, subsequently ratified by the States, were adopted by Congress. The contrast between this picture of legislative activity and the, impo tence of the system so recently defunct must have been very great. The United States no longer presented the awful spectacle, as Hamilton had expressed it, of a nation without a national government. But the contrast was enough to bring out to plain view the sharp dividing line between the two essential political parties of the country. Congress, a new and unfamiliar body, sitting at New York, was instantly recognized as a serious restriction on the only republican governments which the people had hitherto known, - the States. Jefferson, Washington's Sec retary of State, was the natural leader of those who wished to construe the Federal government's powers strictly, so as to retain as much as possible to the State governments; and in 1793 his followers began to assume the name of the Republican party,1 in opposition to the dominant Federalist party, of which Hamilton was now the recognized leader. Genet's mission (1793) brought out the fact that the Federalists were as cool towards the rights of man as the Republicans were warm; and for the next half dozen years American politics were largely Gallican and Anglican. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.