Cover title Various pagings The t.-p. reads: The Old South leaflets. Fifth series, 1887 1. Puritan politics in England and New England. By E.E. Hale. Sir Harry Vane on a constitution [by J. Forster] The compact signed on board the Mayflower.--2. The English colonies in America. By de Tocqueville [from his "Democracy in America"]--3. The time of our political probation. Circular letter addressed by Washington to the governors of all the states, on disbanding the army. 1783.--4. The Constitution of the United States.--5. The last day of the Constitutional Convention. From Madison's Journal.--6. Patrick Henry against the Constitution. Extracts from his first speech in the Virginia convention, June, 1788.--7. The Federalist. no. ix. By Alexander Hamilton.--8. Washington's first inaugural address, April 30, 1789. The inauguration of Washington. From Irving's Life of Washington