Produced by Curtis Weyant, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan's Making of America collection.) Transcriber's Note The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. [Illustration: Engd. by H.B. Hall, from the original Painting by Stuart.] KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY; COMPRISING THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECHES, PROCLAMATIONS, AND ACTS OF CONGRESS, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. WITH A HISTORY OF THE FLAG, BY A DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN. Illustrated. NEW YORK: E.B. TREAT & CO. 654 BROADWAY. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: R.C. TREAT and C.W. LILLEY. B.C. BAKER, DETROIT, MICH. L.C. BRAINARD, ST. LOUIS, MO. A.O. BRIGGS, CLEVELAND, O. M. PITMAN & CO., BOSTON, MASS. A.L. TALCOTT, PITTSBURG, PA. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by E.B. TREAT. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. MACDONALD & STONE, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS, 43 CENTRE STREET, N.Y. PREFACE. This book appeals to the patriotic sentiments of all classes of readers. In its pages will be found those words of burning eloquence which lighted the fires of the American Revolution, stirring the hearts of our fathers to do battle for our independence; the words of wisdom which brought our ship of state safely through the storms of strife into the calms of peace, and all of the most important speeches and proclamations of our statesmen which guided our country during critical periods of our political life. It is a book of our country as a whole; all must read it with emotions of gratitude and pride at the grandeur and stability of our institutions as exemplified by the eloquent words of the statesmen and leading spirits of the great Republic.