is

THE

HALF CENTURY;

•OR.

A HISTORY OF CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE, AND
EVENTS THAT HAVE TRANSPIRED, CHIEFLY IN THE
UNITED STATES, BETWEEN 1800 AND 1850.

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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

TAPPAN AND WHITTEMORE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

7. Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Ed-

ucation at the West....

126

8. Societies for furnishing the West with accomplished and

well-qualified Common School Teachers.....

128

4. Prison Discipline, Imprisonment for Debt, and Houses of

Reformation....

169

5. Peace Societies..

178

6.

The Sabbath, and the Means used to promote its Obser-