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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nicaragua. (search)
having for some time been trying to get a foothold there, and having induced the half-barbarian chief to assume independence of Nicaragua. By a pretended arrangement with the British settlers there, Col. H. L. Kinney led a band of armed emigrants and proceeded to settle on the territory. The governor of Nicaragua protested against this invasion by citizens of the United States. The Nicaraguan minister at Washington called the attention of the United States government to the subject, Jan. 16, 1855, and especially to the fact of the British claim to political jurisdiction there, and urged that the United States, while asserting the Monroe doctrine as a correct political dogma, should not sanction the act complained of, as it was done under guarantees of British protection. The United States government so mildly interfered (as a matter of policy) that the emigration movement was allowed to go on and assume more formidable proportions and aspects. An agent of the conspirators nam
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pierce, Franklin 1804-1869 (search)
o appoint the time and place of the first meeting of the legislative Assembly. In substance, the same duties were devolved on the governor of Nebraska. While by this act the principle of constitution for each of the Territories was one and the same, and the details of organic legislation regarding both were as nearly as could be identical, and while the Territory of Nebraska was tranquilly and successfully organized in the due course of law, and its first legislative Assembly met on Jan. 16, 1855, the organization of Kansas was long delayed, and has been attended with serious difficulties and embarrassments, partly the consequence of local maladministration, and partly of the unjustifiable interference of the inhabitants of some of the States, foreign by residence, interests, and rights to the Territory. The governor of the Territory of Kansas, commissioned as before stated, on June 29, 1854, did not reach the designated seat of his government until the 7th of the ensuing Octo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nebraska, (search)
Hidalgo, proclaimed......July 4, 1848 Omaha founded......1854 Congress organizes the Territory of Nebraska between lat. 40° and 49°, and between the Missouri River and Minnesota on the east and Utah Territory on the west......May 30, 1854 Francis Burt, appointed governor, dies soon after reaching the Territory; Thomas B. Cuming acting governor......Oct. 13, 1854 Legislature and delegates to Congress first elected......Dec. 12, 1854 First legislature convenes at Omaha......Jan. 16, 1855 Capitol at Omaha completed......January, 1858 Governor Black issues a proclamation calling out volunteers for the Federal army......M ay 1, 1861 Act to enable the people to form a State government......April 19, 1864 Constitution framed by convention, Feb. 9, 1866; ratified by the people, 3,938 for and 3,838 against......June 21, 1866 Act to admit Nebraska as a State is passed over a veto, upon the fundamental condition that within the State of Nebraska there should be no