Bppletons' /n>ontF3l£ Bulletin. 



Following this is a chapter on The 

 Negro Problem, reviewing the long his- 

 tory of the status of the free negro ; the 

 slave ; the work of the Colonization So- 

 ciety, of the abolition societies, the anti- 

 slavery societies ; and the troubles in 

 South Carolina, Georgia, and the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia growing out of slavery 

 issues. 



The next chapter, under the title 

 The Industrial Revolution, is an account 

 of the rise and development of manu- 

 factures ; of the conditions which led to 

 the tariffs of 1824 and 1828; their pe- 

 culiar characters ; the violent opposition 

 of the South, and assertions of the 

 State-Rights Doctrine of Calhoun and 

 his party. 



Next comes a chapter on our Early 

 Literature, treating of our native authors, 

 the struggle to establish magazines and 

 periodicals, and the differentiation of the 

 magazine from the all-around monthly 

 to the literary, the religious, the legal, 

 the medical, the scientific ; the appear- 

 ance of later authors — Bryant, Cooper, 

 Sparks, Longfellow, Irving, and a host 

 now forgotten. 



There is a chapter on The Common 

 Schools during the first half century, 

 and another, quite timely now, on British 

 Criticism of the United States, setting 

 forth very fully why our fathers hated 

 Great Britain so heartily. Then follows 

 an elaborate review of Political Ideas 

 during the first half century. Then 

 comes a chapter on foreign complica- 

 tions — the Panama Congress ; the pre- 

 vention of the independence of Cuba by 

 the United States in the interest of the 

 slaveholding States; the Maine bound- 

 ary dispute with Great Britain ; the 

 Oregon agreement of 1827 ; and, finally, 

 a chapter on The Triumph of Democ- 

 racy, detailing the famous struggle end- 

 ing in the election of Jackson, and his 

 war on the Bank. 



The period covered in the volume is 

 one of great interest, and has never be- 

 fore been treated so fully, nor from so 

 many points of view. 



Edgar Stanton Maci ay. 



The History of American Priva- 

 teers, which has engaged the attention 

 of Mr. Edgar S. Maclay for the last few 

 years, will be published late in the spring 

 or in the early autumn. The stirring 

 tale of the exploits of American priva- 

 teersmen has never been fully told, and 

 Mr. Maclay 's work will place before the 

 public a little - known chapter of our 

 maritime history. In his preface Mr. 

 Maclay says : 



" The history of the United States Navy 

 is so intimately connected with that of our 

 privateers that the story of one would be 

 incomplete without a full record of the 

 other. In each of our wars with Great Britain 

 many of the captains in the navy assumed 

 command of privateers in which they fre- 

 quently rendered services of national im- 

 portance, while the pivateersmen furnished 

 the navy with a large number of officers, 

 many of whom became famous. In our 

 stru ggl e f° r independence more than sixty 

 American privateers were commanded l>y 

 men who had been, or soon became, officers 

 in the regular service, and in more than one 

 instance — notably that of the officers and 

 men of the Ranger, Captain John Paul 

 Jones's famous ship, then commanded by 

 Captain William Simpson — almost the en- 

 tire ship's company of a Continental cruiser 

 turned to privateering. Many of our most 

 distinguished navy officers have pointed 

 with pride to their probationary career in 

 privateers. The mere mention of such 

 names as Truxton, Porter, Puddle, Decatur, 

 Barney, Talbot, Barry, Perry, Murray, Rod- 

 gers, Cassin, Little, Robinson, Smith, and 

 Hopkins will show how closely related 



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