list of the States constituting the Union, with the
dates of their admission. The thirty-six stars in our national flag are
therefore designated as under:

Delaware Dec. 7, 1787.
Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787.
New Jersey Dec. 13, 1787.
Georgia Jan. 2, 1788.
Connecticut Jan. 9, 1788.
Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788.
Maryland April 28, 1788.
South Carolina May 23, 1788.
N. Hampshire June 21, 1788.
Virginia June 26, 1788.
New York July 26, 1788.
N. Carolina Nov. 21, 1789.
Rhode Island May 29, 1790.
Vermont March 4, 1791.
Kentucky June 1, 1792.
Tennessee June 1, 1796.
Ohio Nov. 29, 1802.
Louisiana April 8, 1812.
Indiana Dec. 11, 1816.
Mississippi Dec. 16, 1817.
Illinois Dec. 3, 1818.
Alabama Dec. 14, 1819.
Maine March 15, 1820.
Missouri Aug. 10, 1821.
Arkansas June 15, 1836.
Michigan Jan. 26, 1837.
Florida March 3, 1845.
Texas Dec. 29, 1845.
Iowa Dec. 28, 1846.
Wisconsin May 29, 1848.
California Sept. 9, 1850.
Minnesota Dec., 1857.
Oregon Dec., 1858.
Kansas March, 1862.
West Virginia Feb., 1863.
Nevada Oct., 1864.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DELIVERED APRIL 30, 1789.

FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Among the
vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with
greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by
your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On
the one hand I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear
but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the
fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an immutable
decision as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was
rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the
addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my
health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand,
the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my
country called me being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most
experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his
qualifications, could not but overwhel