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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... vessels up to that city . Admiral Dahlgren , besides being the in- ventor of a cannon , introduced into the a Daggett , NAPHTALI , clergyman ; born in Attleboro , Mass . , Sept. 8 , 1727 ; grad- uated at Yale College in 1748 ; ordain ...
... vessels up to that city . Admiral Dahlgren , besides being the in- ventor of a cannon , introduced into the a Daggett , NAPHTALI , clergyman ; born in Attleboro , Mass . , Sept. 8 , 1727 ; grad- uated at Yale College in 1748 ; ordain ...
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... vessels up to that city . Admiral Dahlgren , besides being the in- ventor of a cannon , introduced into the navy the highly esteemed light boat- chosen presi- howitzer . He was author of several tempore and works on ordnance , which ...
... vessels up to that city . Admiral Dahlgren , besides being the in- ventor of a cannon , introduced into the navy the highly esteemed light boat- chosen presi- howitzer . He was author of several tempore and works on ordnance , which ...
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... steamer Jeanette as second in command in 1878. The vessel sailed from San Francisco on July 8 , 1879 , through Ber- ing Straits into the Arctic Ocean , where bill of Senator Lodge , advising the pur- chase of 8 DANBURY - DANENHOWER.
... steamer Jeanette as second in command in 1878. The vessel sailed from San Francisco on July 8 , 1879 , through Ber- ing Straits into the Arctic Ocean , where bill of Senator Lodge , advising the pur- chase of 8 DANBURY - DANENHOWER.
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... vessels were so battered that he was obliged to return to England , and Spanish war - vessels in British waters prevented his sailing for America again until 1590. He found Roanoke a desola- tion , and no trace of the colony was ever ...
... vessels were so battered that he was obliged to return to England , and Spanish war - vessels in British waters prevented his sailing for America again until 1590. He found Roanoke a desola- tion , and no trace of the colony was ever ...
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... vessel filled with French men , women , and children , he sailed for Virginia . The ship was capt- ured by a parliamentary cruiser , and the passengers were landed in England , where the life of Sir William was spared , it is be- lieved ...
... vessel filled with French men , women , and children , he sailed for Virginia . The ship was capt- ured by a parliamentary cruiser , and the passengers were landed in England , where the life of Sir William was spared , it is be- lieved ...
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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.