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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams, John Quincy, 1767- (search)
Vice-President. Mr. Adams received the votes of 13 States on the first ballot, General Jackson 7 States, and Mr. Crawford 4 States. Mr. Calhoun received the votes of 182 of the electors, against 78 for all others. The Electoral College had given Jackson the largest vote of any candidate --99--and Adams 84. See cabinet, President's. In 1831 Mr. Adams was elected to Congress. and was continued in it by successive elections until his death, which occurred suddenly in the Capitol, on Feb. 23, 1848. His last words were, This is the last of earth; I an content. Mr. Adams was a ripe scholar, an able diplomatist, a life-long opponent of human slavery, a bold and unflinching advocate for its abolition. When he was eighty years of age he was called The old man eloquent. He wrote prose and poetry with almost equal facility and purity of diction. See Marquis De Lafayette. Pan-American Union. On Dec. 26, 1825. President Adams sent the following message to the Senate, in which he
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
7 Gen. Zachary Taylor returns to the United States......November, 1847 Thirtieth Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 6, 1847 By resolution Congress authorizes the erection on public grounds in Washington of a monument to George Washington......Jan. 31, 1848 Treaty of peace, friendship, limits, claims, etc., between the United States and Mexico signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 John Quincy Adams, sixth President, dies at Washington, aged eighty-one......Feb. 23, 1848 [Was in his seat in the House when stricken with apoplexy, Feb. 21.] John Jacob Astor dies in New York, aged eighty-five......March 29, 1848 Congress authorizes a loan of $16,000,000......March 31, 1848 By resolution Congress tenders the congratulations of the people of the United States to the French people on becoming a republic......April 13, 1848 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore nominates upon the fourth ballot, under the two-thirds rule, Lewis Cass, of Mich
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
ster orator.] Samuel Hoar, sent by the State to Charleston, to test the constitutionality of the act of South Carolina, whereby any negro on any vessel entering her ports was to be lodged in jail. Mr. Hoar reaches Charleston......Nov. 28, 1844 [He is obliged to leave the city by force a few days afterwards.] Capt. Henry Purkitt, the last survivor of the Boston Mohawk tea party, dies (aged ninety-one)......March 3, 1846 John Quincy Adams dies at Washington, aged eighty......Feb. 23, 1848 Water introduced in Boston through new water-works......Oct. 25, 1848 Shadrach, colored waiter, arrested as a slave in Boston......Feb. 15, 1851 [Rescued by colored persons and sent to Canada.] Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave, arrested in Boston and sent back into slavery......April 12, 1851 [He is sold in New Orleans to a brickmason of Vicksburg, from whence he escapes in 1863 to the besieging army of General Grant, who sent him North.] Senatorial contest in the State le