The United States of America, part 1 (1783-1830)

The United States of America,
part 1 (1783-1830)

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN TWO PARTS

PART I 1783-1830
BY EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, PH. D.

PREFACE

The story of the United States has frequently been told. It has been told
in the spirit of boasting, as a marvel of local accomplishment. It has
been told in the spirit of reverence, as the work of a chosen people
under a special dispensation of Providence. Its glory has been ascribed
now to one political party and now to another. Its success has been
attributed to various statesmen and to different sections.
The Union has been viewed from one point as originally the creature of
the States, whose powers it afterward ungratefully usurped and whose
intent it wilfully perverted to its own aggrandisement. It has been
regarded from another viewpoint as something inherent in the soil of a

new world, manifest in various colonial functions, and brought fully to
life and supremacy at the time of separation from England. An effort is
made in this narrative to find truth in a medium ground; to trace the
gradual evolution of a confederated republic under the laws of
necessity; to acknowledge that radical departures have been made from
first ideals as a result of progress; to take into constant consideration
the underlying forces of heredity and environment. It will be necessary
to omit many of the details commonly found in a history of the United
States for the sake of considering only those centralising or
decentralising factors which have aided or hindered the unification of
the States. In brief, an attempt is made in these two volumes to tell the
story of the United States; to show how the phrase "The United States
is" has been slowly and unconsciously evolved in the process of time
from the early practice of saying "The United States are."

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. A UNION IN FORM ONLY
II. THE PROBLEMS OF THE BACK LANDS
III. THE CARE OF THE PUBLIC LANDS
IV. FAILURE OF THE CONFEDERACY
V. REFORMING THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
VI. ADOPTING A NATIONAL CONSTITUTION
VII. BEGINNING AN EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT
VIII. SUMMONING THE GENII OF THE IMPLIED POWERS
IX. NATIONAL CENTRALISATION
X. FIRST LESSONS IN NATIONAL OBEDIENCE

XI. NATIONAL PARTIES ON FOREIGN ISSUES
XII. SUPPRESSING THE FRENCH SYMPATHISERS
XIII. THE FIRST STATE PROTESTS
XIV. THE ADVENT OF DEMOCRACY
XV. STRICT CONSTRUCTION AN IMPOSSIBILITY
XVI. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY LOST IN WAR
XVII. TRANSFER OF PARTY POLICIES
XVIII. SECTIONAL DISCORD OVER TERRITORY
XIX. ANNOUNCEMENT OF NATIONAL INDIVIDUALITY
XX. FULL FRUITS OF AMERICANISM

ILLUSTRATIONS
SIGNATURES TO THE DEFINITE TREATY OF 1783 Original in
the Department of State.
TITLE-PAGE OF A COPY OF THE ARTICLES OF
CONFEDERATION This copy was printed in 1777.
THE OLD BLOCKHOUSE AT MACKINAC, 1780
MAP SHOWING WESTERN LAND
MAP SHOWING THE PROPOSED WESTERN STATES From
Morse's American Gazetteer.
NATHAN DANE'S DRAFT OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY CLAUSE IN
THE ORDINANCE OF 1787
DR. CUTLER'S CHURCH AND PARSONAGE AT IPSWICH
HAMLET, 1787 The place from which the first company started for the
Ohio, December 3, 1787.
A PETITION FROM CONGRESS TO THE STATES
SIGNATURES TO AN ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Now in the archives of the Department

of State.
SIGNATURES OF DELEGATES TO ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION
MANASSEH CUTLER
COPY OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND THE
CONSTITUTION IN PARALLEL COLUMNS The foot-notes show
that it is an Anti-Federal print.
FIRST DRAFT OF THE