Algonquina

a family of Indian tribes, bearing a strong resemblance to each other in manners and customs and language, which at the time of the beginning of English colonization numbered about a quarter of a million, and occupied, beside part of Canada, most of the area now in the United States east of the Mi i ippi and north of latitude 37°. They were in the hunting-and-fishing stage, tilling little ground, and nomadic, The chief tribes in the family, beside the Canadian members, were the Abenakis, Ma achusetts tribes, Pequods, Narragansetts, Mohegans, Del a wares, Nanticokes, Powhatan tribes, Pampticoes, Shawnees, west of the Alleghanies the Chippewas, Pot taw atomies, Miamis, Sacs, Foxes, Kickapoos and, west of the Mi i ippi, the Black feet and Cheyennes, Alien and Sedition Acts, two acts of Congre , pa ed by the Federalists in 1798, under the excitement of hostile relations with France and bitter feeling against the influence of the French Revolution. The Alien Act authorized the President to order out of the country all such aliens as he might judge to be dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States or to be plotting against them. The Sedition Act provided heavy fines and imprisonment for any who should conspire to oppose the United States Government or laws, or who should print or publish any false, scandalous or malicious writings against the govern- ‘ ment, Congre or the President, intended to bring disrepute or hatred upon them or stir up sedition. These laws were regarded by the Republican party as unconstitutional, and subversive of the liberty of the pre and of speech, and were denounced in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. They expired in 1800 and 1801 respectively..