E CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION 181

CHAPTER XIX.

THE FIRST PRESIDENT 191

CHAPTER XX.

THE WAR WITH CANADA 203

CHAPTER XXI.

THE ADVANCE OF THE REPUBLIC 212

CHAPTER XXII.

MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT 222

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE WEBSTERS 233

CHAPTER XXIV.

BEFO' THE WAH--CAUSES WHICH LED TO IT--MASTERLY GRASP
OF THE SUBJECT SHOWN BY THE AUTHOR 243

CHAPTER XXV.

BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES 252

CHAPTER XXVI.

SOME MORE FRATRICIDAL STRIFE 263

CHAPTER XXVII.

STILL MORE FRATERNAL BLOODSHED, ON PRINCIPLE--OUTING
FEATURES DISAPPEAR, AND GIVE PLACE TO STRAINED RELATIONS
BETWEEN COMBATANTS, WHO BEGIN TO MIX THINGS 274

CHAPTER XXVIII.

LAST YEAR OF THE DISAGREEABLE WAR 284

CHAPTER XXIX.

TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN PLACES AND NOT ENOUGH ELSEWHERE.--THOUGHTS
ON THE LATE WAR--WHO IS THE BIGGER ASS,
THE MAN WHO WILL NOT FORGIVE AND FORGET, OR THE
MAWKISH AND MOIST EYED SNIVELLER WHO WANTS TO DO
THAT ALL THE TIME? 297

CHAPTER XXX.

RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PAIN--ADMINISTRATIONS OF JOHNSON
AND GRANT 305

CHAPTER XXXI.

CLOSING CHRONICLES 317

APPENDIX 329

[Illustration]

CHAPTER I.

THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

It was a beautiful evening at the close of a warm, luscious day in old
Spain. It was such an evening as one would select for trysting purposes.
The honeysuckle gave out the sweet announcement of its arrival on the
summer breeze, and the bulbul sang in the dark vistas of
olive-trees,--sang of his love and his hope, and of the victory he
anticipated in the morrow's bulbul-fight, and the plaudits of the royal
couple who would be there. The pink west paled away to the touch of
twilight, and the soft zenith was sown with stars coming like celestial
fire-flies on the br