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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 1: the political Conventions in 1860. (search)
native State, which was spreading in the Slave-labor States, that Washington gave to his countrymen that magnificent plea for Union--his Farewell Address. According to John Randolph of Roanoke, the Grand Arsenal of Richmond, Virginia, was built with an eye to putting down the Administration of Mr. Adams (the immediate successor of Washington in the office of President) with the bayonet, if it could not be accomplished by other means. --Speech of Randolph in the Iouse of Representatives, January, 1817. and, under the culture of disloyal and ambitious men, after gradual development and long ripening, assumed the form and substance of a rebellion of a few arrogant land and slave holders against popular government. It was the rebellion of an Oligarchy against the people, with whom the sovereign power is rightfully lodged. We will not here discuss the subject of the remote and half-hidden springs of the rebellion, which so suddenly took on the hideous dignity of a great civil war. We
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
regulating duties on imports......April 27, 1816 Congress appropriates $1,000,000 a year for eight years to increase the navy......April 29, 1816 First session adjourns......April 30, 1816 Presidential election held......Nov. 12, 1816 Second session convenes......Dec. 2, 1816 Indiana admitted into the Union (the nineteenth State)......Dec. 11, 1816 American Colonization Society formed in Washington, D. C.......December, 1816 United States Bank begins operations......January, 1817 Congress authorizes the President to employ John Trumbull, of Connecticut, to paint four scenes of the Revolution for the Capitol......Feb. 6, 1817 [These paintings are The Declaration of Independence; Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga; Surrender of Cornwallis; and the Resignation of Washington at Annapolis.] Electoral vote counted......Feb. 12, 1817 Act dividing the Mississippi territory......March 1, 1817 Fourteenth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1817 eighth admini
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
ure her by putting her into any jail within the United States! To complete the effectiveness of his assault, Mr. Garrison gathered in a second part of his volume the protestations of the people of color against colonization, proving them to be as unanimously opposed to a removal Ibid., p. 5. to Africa as the Cherokees from the council-fires and graves of their fathers. Some of these, like the Ibid., p. 9. Richmond (Va.) resolutions of January, and the Philadelphia resolutions of January and August, 1817 (with James Forten in the chair), were the earliest possible remonstrances against the professed objects of the Society; the rest, from all parts of the country, had been printed in the Liberator, which was naturally charged with creating the adverse sentiments for which in fact it merely served as a mouthpiece. It is my solemn conviction, Ibid., p. 8. wrote Mr. Garrison, that I have not proselyted a dozen individuals; for the very conclusive reason that no conversions
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 2 (search)
iptions of society. But what these want in personality they possess in number, in recurrency, in invulnerability. The spirit of man, an agent indeed of curious power and boundless resource, but trembling with sensibilities, tender and irritable, goes out against the inexorable conditions of destiny, the lifeless forces of nature, or the ferocious cruelty of the multitude, and long before the hands are weary or the invention exhausted, the heart may be broken in the warfare. N. A. Review, Jan., 1817, article Dichtung und Wahrheit the difficulty which we all feel in describing our past intercourse and friendship with Margaret Fuller, is, that the intercourse was so intimate, and the friendship so personal, that it is like making a confession to the public of our most interior selves. For this noble person, by her keen insight and her generous interest, entered into the depth of every soul with which she stood in any real relation. To print one of her letters, is like giving an ex