ANTI-FEDERALISTS 



ANTILLES 



and his generals were the cause of much sub- 

 sequent criticism. The fighting on the first 

 day was a preliminary skirmish, but on the 



CONFEDERATE MONUMENT 



d to commemorate Antietam, at Shep- 

 pardstown. 



second day the Federal dead numbered 12,400 

 and the Confederate dead about 10,000, a 

 greater total than on any other single day of 



\var. Hooker, Burnside, Sedgwick, Slocum 

 and Meade were the leading Federal generals; 

 Longstreet, "Stonewall" Jackson, Hood, Early, 

 A. P. Hill and D. H. Hill were Lee's chief lieu- 

 tenants. The retreat of the Confederates on 



18th gave the North the shadow of victory, 

 for wind. Lincoln had waited before if* 



irninary Emancipation Proclamation 

 (which see), on September _22. 



ANTI-FEDERALISTS, a political party 

 formed in the United States when the adop- 

 tion of the Const: .is an issue before 

 Those favoring the adoption of 



ron-ntution took the name of Federal- 

 ists. The Ant <ts opposed the Co 

 tution in Hie form in which it was presented 

 for acceptance, because they bcli. \.,1 that it 



called for too strong a central government, one 

 which would deprive the states of freedom of 

 action in many directions (see STATES RIGHTS). 

 After the adoption of the Constitution, they 

 favored a strict construction, or strict inter- 

 pretation, of that instrument, and declared for 

 strong state governments. Thomas Jefferson 

 was their leader. Later the name of the party 

 was changed to Republican, Democrat ic- 

 Republican and finally Democratic. See 

 DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 



ANTIGONE, an tig' one, one of the most 

 attractive characters of Greek mythology, the 

 constant devoted attendant of her fat In T 

 Oedipus (which see). When her brother 

 Polynices was put to death she was ordered 

 not to bury his body, and because she dis- 

 obeyed she was shut up alive in a tomb. Her 

 story is told in the Antigone of Sophocles. 



ANTIGONISH, an tig' onixh, N. S., the 

 county town of Antigonish County, situated 

 on Saint George's Bay, a navigable arm of the 

 Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and on the Interco- 

 lonial Railway. It is the seat of a Roman 

 Catholic bishop, of Saint Francis Xavicr Col- 

 lege, with about 250 students, and of Saint 

 Bernard's convent, and has churches of sev- 

 eral other denominations. Industrially the 

 town is important for cheese, wood products 

 and grist mill products, and the neighborhood 

 has a few minerals, including oil shale, iron 

 and a little gold. Antigonish is a favorite 

 resort for sportsmen, who come for the excel- 

 lent bass, trout and salmon fishing. Popula- 

 tion, largely of Highland Scotch descent, in 

 1911, 1,787; in 1916, about 2,000. N.G.M. 



ANTILLES, antil'leez, another name for 

 the West Indies, or, more usually, for all of 

 the islands except their northernmost portion, 



SOUTH AMERICA 



islands of the Antilles are shown 



in M 



the Bahamas. The Greater Antilles are Cuba, 

 Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico and the less im- 

 portant neighboring islands like the Isle of 



