'Nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present came
to be what it is."-STUBBS: Const. Hist. of England.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by

D. H. MONTGOMERY,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

J. S. CUSHING & Co., PRINTERS, BOSTON.

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I dedicate this book

to my friend J. J. M., who generously

gave time, labor, and valuable

suggestions towards its

preparation for

the press.