Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper, 1901 |
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... Virginia and the South . Dabney , WALTER DAVID , lawyer ; born in Albemarle county , Va . , in 1853 ; grad- uated at the law department of the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1875 ; appointed legal secretary of the United States In ...
... Virginia and the South . Dabney , WALTER DAVID , lawyer ; born in Albemarle county , Va . , in 1853 ; grad- uated at the law department of the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1875 ; appointed legal secretary of the United States In ...
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... Virginia ; entered the army as third lieutenant in 1813. During the war with the Seminole Indians , while on the march to Fort King , he , with almost the entire detachment , was destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Indians , Dec ...
... Virginia ; entered the army as third lieutenant in 1813. During the war with the Seminole Indians , while on the march to Fort King , he , with almost the entire detachment , was destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Indians , Dec ...
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... Virginia ; entered the army as third lieutenant in 1813. During the war with the Seminole Indians , while on the march to Fort King , he , with almost the entire detachment , was destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Indians , Dec ...
... Virginia ; entered the army as third lieutenant in 1813. During the war with the Seminole Indians , while on the march to Fort King , he , with almost the entire detachment , was destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Indians , Dec ...
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... Virginia navy , and entered the Con- tinental navy , as midshipman , in 1776 . He was captured in 1777 , and confined in Mill Prison , England , from which he escaped , but was recaptured in Lon- don and taken back . The next year he ...
... Virginia navy , and entered the Con- tinental navy , as midshipman , in 1776 . He was captured in 1777 , and confined in Mill Prison , England , from which he escaped , but was recaptured in Lon- don and taken back . The next year he ...
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... Virginia , he administered the gov- ernment on the basis of martial law ; planted new settlements on the James , towards the Falls ( now Richmond ) ; and introduced salutary changes in the land laws of the colony . He conquered the Ap ...
... Virginia , he administered the gov- ernment on the basis of martial law ; planted new settlements on the James , towards the Falls ( now Richmond ) ; and introduced salutary changes in the land laws of the colony . He conquered the Ap ...
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Página 142 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 221 - ... aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 221 - States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Página 226 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free, and that the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Página 65 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name...
Página 35 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 221 - I further make known that whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States, free, and whether at any time, in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the government, to exercise such supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I cannot feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field.
Página 36 - ... for abolishing the free system of English law in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies ; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the forms of our government ; for suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all...
Página 55 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Página 56 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.