He may be allowed, in conclusion, to mention the encouragement given to him in beginning his work by the late Mr. Henry James, O.M., whose vivid and enthusiastic judgment of Lincoln he had the privilege of receiving.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

Some events in History of United    Some events in English and
States.                              General History.

1759.  Capture of Quebec. 1759.  Capture of Quebec.

1757-60.  Ministry of Chatham
(William Pitt).

1760. Contrat Social published.

1764-76.  Great inventions in
spinning industries.

1765.  Stamp Act passed. 1765.  Watt’s steam engine.

1776.   Declaration of               1776.   Publication of “Wealth of
Independence                        Nations.”

1778.  Death of Chatham.

1782.  Rodney’s victory.

1783.  American Independence
recognised.

1787.  Constitution framed. 
North West Territory ceded
by States to Congress and
slavery excluded from it.

1789.  Constitution comes into 1789.  Meeting of States General.
force.

1793.   Eli Whitney invents cotton   1793.   England at war with French
gin.                                 Republic.

1794.  Slave Trade abolished by
French Convention.

1799.  Death of Washington.

1802.  Peace of Amiens.

1803.  Louisiana purchase. 1803.  England at war with
Napoleon.

1804.  Death of Hamilton.

1805.  Trafalgar.

1806.  The American Fulton’s
steam-boat on Seine.

1807.   Fulton’s steam-boat on       1807.   Slave Trade abolished by
Hudson.                              Great Britain.

1808.   Slave Trade abolished by     1808.   Battle of Vimiera. 
U. S. A.                            Convention of Cintra.

Wordsworth’s literary
activity about at its
culmination.

1809.  Abraham Lincoln born. 1809.  Darwin, Tennyson, and
Gladstone born.

1812-1814.  War with Great
Britain.

1815.  Waterloo.

1820.  Missouri Compromise.

1823.  Monroe doctrine declared.

1825.  First railway opened in
England.

1826.  Death of Jefferson. 1826.  Independence of Mexico and
Spanish Colonies in South
America recognised by
Canning.

1827.  Navarino.

1828.  Commencement of
“nullification” movement. 
Election of Jackson.

1829.  Catholic emancipation.

1830.  Hayne-Webster debate.

1831.  Garrison publishes first 1831.  Mazzini founds Young
number of Liberator.  Italy. 
Lincoln starts life in New
Salem. 
First railway opened in
America.

1832.  First Reform Bill.