A

A COMPILATION

OF THE

MESSAGES AND PAPERS

OF THE

PRESIDENTS

Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee
on Printing, of the House and Senate,
Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress
of the United States

(With Additions and Encyclopedic Index
by Private Enterprise)

VOLUME IX

PUBLISHED BY

BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE

Copyright, 1897,

BY

JAMES D. RICHARDSON

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME NINE

The War College at Washington

Building the Transcontinental Railroads

Junction of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads
Laying the Telegraph Cable in Mid-Atlantic

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Congressional Committee to Impeach President Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant, (portrait)

(with sketch of his home on tissue)

President Grant's Extra Session Proclamation
Early Attempts at an Isthmian Canal

The Perpetual Cuban Revolution

A Session of the Alabama Claims Arbitrators