1, 2, 3, 5.-For account of Taylor's battles, see pp. 238, 239. 4, 6.-General Kearny, marching from Missouri, took possession of New Mexico; and a division of his army under Colonel Doniphan, continuing the march, defeated the enemy at Bracito and Sacramento. 7-12.-For Scott's battles, see pp. 239-242. 9-12 were positions fortified by the Mexicans for the protection of the city of Mexico. General Worth distinguished himself while in command of the attack upon the Molino del Rey. 13.-General Lane, on his march with recruits for Scott, was attacked at Hua mantla by Santa Anna, after the latter's flight from the city of Mexico. 1. Original. 2. Louisiana. 1803 3. Florida 1819 Purchase Spain 4. Texas. 1845 Annexat'n. Texas. 5. Oregon.... $1789 Explorati'n and occu 1846 1783 Conquest... England. 833,744 (See p. 176.) 59,268 5,000,000 Monroe. 274,356 (See p. 238.) Tyler, Polk. Mexico 636,760 7. Gadsden Tract.. 1853 Purchase Mexico.. 45,535 $18,000,000 Polk. 10,000,000 Pierce. 7,200,000 Johnson. ADMISSION OF THE STATES. AD ADMINISTRA TION. OHIO." In the case of every State except Ohio, Congress has either passed a distinct and definite act of admission, dating from the day of enactment or from a uture day named, or has provided for an admission on the issue of a proclamation by the Presi dent. Ohio forms a case by itself, belonging to neither of these classes." In April, 1802, Congress passed "an act to enable the people of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such State into the Union." The people accordingly elected delegates to a convention, by whom a Constitution was formed (Nov., 1802), which, in January, 1803, was submitted to Congress for ratification; and, on the 19th of the following month the President approved the first act which recognized the new State. The true date of Ohio's admission to the Union is therefore the 19th of February, 1803. APPENDIX. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, July 4, 1776. WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes nccessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect thei. safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governmets long established, should not be changed for light and transien causes; and, accordingly, alt experience hath shown, that mankinu are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Sh has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is r‚w the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world: He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appro ́ations of lands. He has obstructed the admin' ration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing i diciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in time of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superio to, the civil power. He has combined, with others, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : For protecting them by a mock trial, from punishment, for any |