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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 1 1 Browse Search
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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 33. (search)
nson, made official proclamation that the legislatures of twenty-seven States, constituting three fourths of the thirty-six States of the Union, had ratified the amendment, and that it had become valid as a part of the Constitution. Four of the States constituting this number-Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas were those whose reconstruction had been effected under the direction of President Lincoln. Six more States subsequently ratified the amendment, Texas ending the list in February, 1870. The profound political transformation which the American Republic had undergone can perhaps best be measured by contrasting the two constitutional amendments which Congress made it the duty of the Lincoln administration to submit officially to the States. The first, signed by President Buchanan as one of his last official acts, and accepted and indorsed by Lincoln in his inaugural address, was in these words: No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authori
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
fice settled by the Supreme Court......June 22, 1869 Act of Congress completes reconstruction of Georgia......Dec. 22, 1869 Georgia Senate refuses to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment......1869 Gen. A. H. Terry assigned to military command of District of Georgia......Dec. 24, 1869 Legislature elected 1868 assemble in Atlanta by Governor Bullock's proclamation, to perfect organization of State......Jan. 10, 1870 Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments ratified in legislature......February, 1870 Georgia readmitted to the Union......July 15, 1870 System of public instruction established by law......Oct. 13, 1870 Governor Bullock, accused of fraudulent negotiation of bonds endorsed by the State, resigns and leaves the State; Benjamin Conley, president of the Senate, succeeds......Oct. 30, 1871 James M. Smith elected governor by special election......Dec. 19, 1871 Macon and Brunswick Railroad seized by the State for non-payment of interest......July 2, 1873 Amendm
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Frank W. Bird, and the Bird Club. (search)
sed. If any one paid him a compliment or expressed gratitude for some act of kindness, he would hesitate and become silent for a moment, as if he were reflecting whether he deserved it or not; and then would go on to some other subject. His acts of kindness were almost numberless. He assisted those whom others would not assist; and if he suspected that a small officeholder was being tyrannized over, he would take no rest until he had satisfied himself of the truth of the case. In February, 1870, he learned that a high official in the Boston Post-office, who was supported in his position by the Governor of the State, was taking advantage of this to levy a blackmail on his subordinates, compelling them to pay him a commission in order to retain their places. Frank Bird was furious with honest indignation. He said: I will go to Washington and have that man turned out if I have to see Grant himself for it ; and so he did. One evening at Walpole a poor woman came to him in dis
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 10: the religious side (search)
er just such provocations as these that Whittier wrote, these were the charges against which Whittier protested; and, as will be seen, in the same just and moderate tone which usually marked his writings. The following letters were addressed to the editor of the Friends' Review in Philadelphia, in reference to certain changes of principle and practice in the Society then beginning to be observable, but which have since more than justified the writer's fears and solicitude. Amesbury, 2nd mo., 1870. To the Editor of the Review. Esteemed Friend,--I have been hitherto a silent, I have not been an indifferent, spectator of the movements now going on in our religious Society. Perhaps from lack of faith, I have been quite too solicitous concerning them, and too much afraid that in grasping after new things we may let go of old things too precious to be lost. Hence I have been pleased to see from time to time in thy paper very timely and fitting articles upon a Hired Ministry and S
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
tablishment at Boston Jan., 1870. of the Woman's Journal. To both of these movements Mr. Garrison gave his active cooperation, and was especially helpful in launching the Journal, of which, for a time, he was an associate editor with Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Lucy Stone, and T. W. Higginson. He was one of the Vice-Presidents also of the American and of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations, and President of the former for two years. In the wintry months of February and March, 1870, he made two journeys to Vermont, and addressed suffrage conventions at Rutland and Burlington in company with Mrs. Howe and Mrs. Livermore, the question of a constitutional amendment being then before the State Board of Censors. From the exposure thus incurred he narrowly escaped a severe illness, and the gradual impairment of his health may be said to date from that time. When well enough, he never failed to attend the semi-annual suffrage conventions in Boston, in Janua
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
ansport himself and his staff and troops from one port to another in the island, and to carry his despatches. For the time being the navy of the United States was the navy of Baez. So precarious was his power at the time that it appeared in the official correspondence that without the support of our ships of war he could not have maintained himself against his own people, and would have been obliged to leave the island. Commodore Green's despatch, July 21, 1870. Admiral poor in February, 1870, in pursuance of his orders, made a formal demonstration at the Haytian capital. Arriving at Port-au-Prince with his flag-ship, both by written communication and in a personal interview, he announced to the President of the republic the determination of the government at Washington to prevent any interference with the Baez government during the negotiations, and to treat any attack upon it as an act of hostility to the United States which would provoke hostility in return. As significa
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
b in Moslem fable, bear the accursed fruit of oppression, rebellion, and all imaginable crime, shall be torn up and destroyed forever. Amesbury, 1st 6th mo., 1862. The Society of Friends The following letters were addressed to the Editor of the Friends' Review in Philadelphia, in reference to certain changes of principle and practice in the Society then beginning to be observable, but which have since more than justified the writer's fears and solicitude. I. Amesbury, 2d mo., 1870. To the editor of the Review. Esteemed friend,—If I have been hitherto a silent, I have not been an indifferent, spectator of the movements now going on in our religious Society. Perhaps from lack of faith, I have been quite too solicitous concerning them, and too much afraid that in grasping after new things we may let go of old things too precious to be lost. Hence I have been pleased to see from time to time in thy paper very timely and fitting articles upon a Hired Ministry and S