UNITED STATES SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION andStandard Time Divisions.
A NEW HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
The Greater Republic
EMBRACING
THE GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR COUNTRY FROM THE
EARLIEST DAYS OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
TO THE PRESENT EVENTFUL YEAR
SHOWING HOW FROM THIRTEEN COLONIES WITH A SCATTERED POPULATION ALONG THEATLANTIC COAST A GREAT REPUBLIC HAS BEEN FORMED, EMBRACING
FORTY-FIVE STATES WITH 75,000,000 INHABITANTS AND VAST
COLONIAL POSSESSIONS IN TWO HEMISPHERES
By CHARLES MORRIS, LL.D.
Author of "Decisive Events in American History," "Half Hours with theBest American Authors," "An Historical Review of Civilization," Etc.,Etc.
Embellished With Over 300 New Engravings
ILLUSTRATING ALL THAT IS INTERESTING AND INSPIRING IN OUR HISTORY
JOHN C. WINSTON & CO.
PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO TORONTO
1899
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1899, by
W.E. SCULL.
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
PUBLISHERS' INTRODUCTION.
The late war with Spain marks a momentous epoch in the progress of ourcountry, whose history, stretching through the centuries of discovery,exploration, settlement, the struggle for independence, foreign anddomestic war, lofty achievement in all departments of knowledge andprogress, is the most interesting in human annals. It is a record fullof instruction and incitement to endeavor, which must fill everyAmerican with pride in his birthright, and with gratitude to Him whoholds the earth and the sea in the hollow of His hand.
The following pages contain a complete, accurate, and graphic history ofour country from the first visit of the Northmen, a thousand years ago,to the opening of its new destiny, through the late struggle, resultingin the freeing of Cuba, the wresting of the Philippines, Porto Rico, andthe Ladrones from the tyranny of the most cruel of modern nations, andthe addition of Hawaii to our domain. The Greater United States, at onebound, assumes its place in the van of nations, and becomes the foremostagent in civilizing and christianizing the world.
The task, long committed to England, Germany, France, Russia, and laterto Japan, must henceforth be shared with us, whose glowing future givespromise of the crowning achievement of the ages. With a fervent trust ina guiding Providence, and an abiding confidence in our ability, we enterupon the new and grander career, as in obedience to the divine behestthat the Latin race must decrease and the Anglo-Saxon increase, and thatthe latter, in a human sense, must be the regenerator of all who aregroping in the night of ignorance and barbarism.
It is a wonderful story that is traced in the pages that follow. Acomprehension of the present and of the promise of the futurenecessitates an understanding of the past. The history of the GreaterUnited States, therefore, is complete, from the first glimpse, in theearly morning of October 12, 1492, of San Salvador by Columbus, throughthe settlement of the colonies, their struggles for existence, thecolonial wars, the supreme contest between England and France for