ANNUAL ELECTION RETURNS BY STATES AND COUNTIES,

LISTS OF PRESIDENTS, CABINETS, JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT, FOREIGN
MINISTERS, GOVERNORS OF STATES, &C., WITH SUMMARIES OF ACTS
OF CONGRESS, AND OTHER POLITICAL STATISTICS,

TOGETHER WITH

POLITICAL ESSAYS, ADDRESSES, PARTY PLATFORMS, &c.

MAKING A CONNECTED POLITICAL HISTORY FOR THIRTY YEARS.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE,

No. 154 NASSAU STREET.

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Page. Bonnty Land Law Amended....36 National Platforms.33-37 Kansas in 1858.. Diplomatic and Consular Service The Case of Dred Scott......37-44 How they elect Bogus United -Pay.. ..37 Minnesota Its Organization as States Senators in Indiana..35-37 Grants for Railroads in Different Territory and State, and rapid Utah and the Mormons. .37-42 States. growth. Governments of Europe-Names Oregon-Description of State, Syof Sovereign, Title, Form of nopsis of Constitution........ 46 Government, Square Miles, PopThe East Indian Revolt......47-49 ulation, Religion, &c.

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General, Civil, and Diplomatic
Appropriations, etc., etc.....38

Preclamations on

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Boundary with Mexico.39 Republican Congressmen-Decla-
Disturbances in Kansas...

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Election Returns.

44-63

..40 ration of Principles

...49

Calling Extra Sessions of Con- Governments of Europe..

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New-Hampshire

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Election Returns...

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Parti Platforms in 1856-Republi

New Hampshire..

can, Democratic, and Ameri

Vermont

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can..

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Massachusetts.

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New-York City.

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Election Returns..

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Pennsylvania...

52

51

Vermont..

44

New-York....

52

North Carolina.

54

New Hampshire.

44

Pennsylvania.

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Massachusetts...

Connecticut.

54 Michigan...

55

46 Misso

Pennsylvania...
Floria....

48 Indiana...

.55 Arkansas.

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North Carolina.
New Jersey.
Delaware..

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50

Tennessee.

58

50 Alabama

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Kansas.

58

Tennessee.

Virginia.

Kentucky

Georgia

Lomsians.

Mississippi.

Arkansas..

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Missouri.

.54 Iowa...

Marrland.

Ohio..

Indiana..

Michigan.

Illinois.

Iowa...

Wisconsin.

California.
Texas.

.53 New-York City.

55 Wisconsin.

.55 Oregon.

..56 State Governments

Oregon.....

.61 State Governments.....

.62 Popular Vote for President.......64

.63 United States Government- Ex

ecutive and Judiciary.....16 64 Ministers to Foreign Countries, Country, Capital, Salary, etc...16 ..64 Members of Thirty-Sixth Con.17-19

59 Popular Vote for President, 1848,
60 1852, 1856..

..64 United States Government-Ex-
..64 ecutive and Judiciary..

gress.

Postage Rates, Domestic and Foreign...

16 Land for the Landless-Action of

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Popular Vote for President by Members of Thirty-Fifth Con- Congress on Public Lands..21-29

gress..

.. 16 The Foreign Slave Trade....30-34

Kansas..

States in 1848, 1852, and 1856....64
State Governments-Governors, Members of Thirty-Sixth Con-
Capitals, General Election, gress, as far as elected....... 18 The Italian War.
Meeting of Legislatures, etc....65 Laws of Congress; Abstracts of
Population and Wealth of United the Important Acts of first ses-

.34 .36-38

The Constitution of the United

Appropriations made during the second session of 35th Congress 45 20) Governments of Europe-Sover20 eign, Title, Form of Government, Miles, Population, Relig

sion of Thirty-Fifth Con
19-24
To issue Treasury Notes... 19
Admission of Minnesota.
Land Claims in California.
Archives of California..
Frauds in Land Titles.
Texas Boundary Line.
Appropriations
Compensation of Congressmen.23
Difficulties with Paraguay, &c..24

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.21 ion, etc.....

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Prepayment of Postage...25 Kansas-Lecompton, and Lecomp

Election Returns...

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47-63

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27

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Fortifications..

Reducing the Tariff.

Appropriations
Swamp Lands, etc., etc......30

Act for the Admission of the
..29 State of Kansas into the
Union.

Proposed Relief for Kansas......31 The Public Lands-Agricultural
Mr. Grow's Bill, and the action of

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The Lecompton bill, and the
Crittenden-Montgomery sub-

Rhode Island...

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stitute

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