The Statesman's Manual

THE

STATESMAN'S MANUAL;

CONTAINING THE

ADDRESSES AND MESSAGES

OF THE

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES,

INAUGURAL, ANNUAL, AND SPECIAL,

FROM

1789 TO 1858;

WITH

A MEMOIR OF EACH OF THE PRESIDENTS,

AND

A HISTORY OF THEIR ADMINISTRATIONS:

ALSO,

TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN POWERS,
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTS' PROCLAMATIONS,
AND OTHER IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND STATISTICAL INFORMATION.

COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES BY

EDWIN WILLIAMS AND BENSON J. LOSSING.

EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS,

ENGRAVED ON STEEL.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.

REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION.

NEW YORK:

EDWARD WALKER, 114 FULTON STREET.

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1858
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,

BY EDWARD WALKER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

SAVAGE & MCCREA, STEREOTYPERS, 13 Chambers Street, Y.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

Historical Sketch of the Events and Circumstances which led to the Formation

of the American Union

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Proceedings of Commissioners, at Annapolis, to consider means of remedying

Defects of the Federal Government.

Delegates to the Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787, to Frame a Constitution... 17

Dates of the Ratification of the Constitution by the Thirteen Original States...

Congress of Colonial Delegates at Albany in 1754..

Congress at New York City, in 1765..

Continental Congress, Presidents and Sessions of, from 1774 to 1788.....

Biographical Sketches of the Presidents of the Continental Congress-Peyton

Randolph-Henry Middleton-John Hancock-Henry Laurens-John Jay-

Samuel Huntington-Thomas M'Kean-John Hanson-Elias Boudinot-

Thomas Mifflin-Richard Henry Lee-Nathaniel Gorham-Arthur St. Clair

-Cyrus Griffin-Charles Thomson, the Secretary.

Executive officers of the Confederation....

War Department established..

Board of War and Ordnance appointed.

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Signers of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776-where and when Born
-what Colony delegated from-Time of their Decease.....

Names of Members of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1788..

Presidents of the Senate, Constitutional and pro tem., and the Congress in which
they presided....

Sessions of Congress-Commencement and Termination of-Days' Duration-
Acts passed and Bills vetoed...

Speakers of the House of Representatives.

Senators and Representatives in Congress by States from 1789 to 1857.
Delegates from Territories from 1789 to 1858..

Representatives to 35th Congress 1857-'59....

Mode of electing Members of Congress...

Compensation of Members of Congress at different Periods.

Population of the United States by States, from 1790 to 1850, with the Square

Miles in each State.....

Number of Representatives from each State under each Census, since 1789.

Date of the Admission of each State into the Union.....

Seventh Census of the United States, 1850...

Area of the United States....

Progress of Population from 1790 to 1850.

Shore line of the United States..

Electoral votes for Presidents and Vice-Presidents by States, from 1789 to 1857...

Presidential Administrations, from 1789 to 1857-Names of all the Secretaries of

State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, the Postmaster-Generals, and At-

torney-Generals, under each President, with the Dates of their Appointment. 85

Compensation of the President, Vice-President, and Secretaries of the Departments 88

Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789, with the Dates of

their Appointment...

Executive and Judiciary Departments-the Special Functions and Duties of Each

Department of the Interior organized....

Diplomatic Ministers of the United States to Foreign Countries, from 1789 to 1858

Diplomatic and Consular System of the United States...

Compensation to Ministers and Consuls, under Act of 1856...

Act of Congress to provide for the Enforcement of Certain Provisions in the

Treaties of the United States with Foreign Powers..

Act of Congress to give Effect to Treaties of Extradition..

104

105

Aggregate Receipts and Expenditures of the United States-Public Debt-Ton-

nage-Proceeds of Sales of the Public Lands-from 1789 to 1856.... .... 106

Imports and Exports of the United States, with the Net Revenue, from 1789 to 1857 107

Expenses of the War for Independence....

Value of Continental Money.

Presidents' Proclamations..

(Washington) Survey of and Defining the Limits of the District of Columbia,

against enlisting Men to invade a Neighboring Nation, March 24, 1794.

Appointing a Day of Public Thanksgiving, January 1, 1795..

(John Adams) Appointing a Day of Public Humiliation, March 23, 1798.

Resistance in Pennsylvania to the Laws levying Taxes, March 12, 1799..

(Jefferson) Requiring Removal of British Armed Vessels from the United States

(Van Buren) Enjoining Neutrality as to Canada, January 5, 1838.

Enjoining Neutrality as to Canada, November 21, 1838..

Synopsis of the Constitutions of the several United States..

New Hampshire..

Ports and Waters, July 2, 1807...

(Madison) Taking Possession of Part of Louisiana, October 28, 1810...
Directing the British Blockade of the Coast of the United States, to be disre-
garded, January 29, 1814..

Appointing a Day of Public Thanksgiving for Peace, March 14, 1815..
Respecting an Apprehended Invasion of the Spanish Dominions, Septem-
ber 1, 1815...

(Taylor) Revoking the Exequatur of the Spanish Consul at New Orleans, Jan-