United Labor Party

organized in New York City in 1886. They ran Henry George as candidate for mayor that year. They proposed the formation of a national organization, and declared that values arising from the growth of society belonged to the community as a whole. ' United States. Up to the Declzration of Independence the title employed had been United Colonies, after that it was United States of America. Their independence was first acknowledged by France, ip the treaty of 1778. Great Britain acknowledged it by the treaty of 1783. The government at first consisted simply of the Continental Congre , From March 1, 1781, the constitution in force was the Articles of Confederation; from June 21, 1788, the present Constitution. The area was at first about 850,000 square miles; the population in 1790 le than four millions. “‘United States,’’ a frigate of forty-four guns built in 1798, met on October 25, 1812, near the Island of Madeira, the British frigate‘ Maced on i an,”’ likewise of forty-four guns. The fight at first was at long range, in which the ‘ Maced on i an’? was badly damaged; this ve e!, in attempting to draw nearer, lost nearly all its masts and spars, Seeing further resistance to be usele it surrendered. Of its 300 men it lost thirty-six killed, sixty-eight wounded. The ‘‘ United States” lost five killed and six wounded. The ‘‘ United States’’ with its prize then returned home and anchored January 1, 1813, in New York harbor. “ United States Telegraph.’’ The publication of this newspaper was begun in Washington in 1826 by Duff Green. Jackson was then President and the U. S. Telegraph was established as the organ of his administration. This journal was afterward suspended, having achieved but little succe , and was superseded as official organ in 1830 by the Globe, edited by Francis P. Blair. 320