Produced by Larry B. Harrison and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE FALL OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1886. _Copyright_, 1885, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. THE FALL OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC. (1886–88.) BY SIR HENRY STANDISH COVERDALE (_Intendant for the Board of European Administration in the Province of New York._) “O Liberty! Liberty! How many crimes are committed in thy name!” _By Permission of the Bureau of Press Censorship._ NEW YORK: 1895. CONTENTS. PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY.--THE “HARD TIMES” OF 1882–1887 7 II. THE MORAL INTERREGNUM 15 III. THE SOCIALISTIC POISON 27 IV. THE RULE OF IRELAND IN AMERICA 32 V. THE FIRST ERUPTION 51 VI. ANXIOUS FOREBODINGS 77 VII. THE REVOLUTIONISTS’ MASTER-STROKE 86 VIII. THE REIGN OF ANARCHY 96 IX. ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE GOVERNMENT 103 X. THE LAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 115 XI. A PRECIOUS TRIUMVIRATE 124 XII. WAR WITH ENGLAND 128 XIII. CAPTURE OF BOSTON 141 XIV. THE EUROPEAN COALITION 159 XV. THE ALLIES ATTACK NEW YORK 171 XVI. THE FINAL STRUGGLE 192 XVII. FOREIGN OCCUPATION 198 APPENDIX. I. THE SOCIALISTIC SPIRIT IN 1885 207 II. A REVOLUTION NEAR AT HAND.--“IT MUST COME” 209 III. A FEMALE SOCIALIST’S ADVICE 211 IV. ATHEISM, COMMUNISM, AND ANARCHY 212 V. THE FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST CIVILIZATION 213 VI. THE PROSPECTS OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN DYNAMITERS AND COMMUNISTS 214 VII. TWO CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMS 215 VIII. THE COURTS.--ONE JOURNALISTIC WARNING OUT OF MANY 217