CONTENTS.

I. INTRODUCTORY. THE "HARD TIMES" OF 1882 - 1887.

II. THE MORAL INTERREGNUM.

III. THE SOCIALISTIC POISON.

IV. THE RULE OF IRELAND IN AMERICA.

V. THE FIRST ERUPTION.

VI. ANXIOUS FOREBODINGS.

VII. THE REVOLUTIONISTS' MASTER-STROKE.

VIII. THE REIGN OF ANARCHY.

IX. ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE GOVERNMENT.

X. THE LAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

XI. A PRECIOUS TRIUMVIRATE.

XII. WAR WITH ENGLAND.

XIII. CAPTURE OF BOSTON.

XIV. THE EUROPEAN COALITION.

XV. THE ALLIES ATTACK NEW YORK.

XVI. THE FINAL STRUGGLE.

XVII. FOREIGN OCCUPATION.

APPENDIX.

Transcriber's Note

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.