THE I CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: BY DR. H. VON HOLST. PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY 1846-1850. ANNEXATION OF TEXAS-COMPROMISE OF 1850. CHICAGO: CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, BY CALLAGHAN & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, in Washington. TIBKVBA NE S. K. REED, PRINTER, CHICAGO. TRANSLATORS' NOTE. The following extract is from the author's preface: "The third volume of the Constitutional History of the United States would have been in the hands of the public long ago if its preparation had not been interrupted for a whole year, from July, 1878 to July, 1879. The Government of the Duchy of Baden released me for that period from my duties as academic teacher and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences granted me a traveling allowance of 9,000 marks, to gather new material in the American libraries and obtain additional information by visiting the parts of the Union not yet known to me-the southern States, and the territory west of the Mississippi, as far as the Pacific Ocean. "I could not better give expression to my feelings of gratefulness, than by wishing that the present volume might be judged by competent critics in a manner which will justify this extraordinary liberality. I may thank in the first place, Heinrich von Sybel, who nearly thirteen years ago gave it the primary incitement, that the work has been so munificently supported by the academy.......... ̧ ̧ "The number of those who either directly or indirectly have assisted me in the attainment of my object-Germans, German-Americans and Americans, is so large that I cannot name them all. Hence, I prefer to mention no names at all, since it would greatly pain me if only one |