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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newton, John 1823-1895 (search)
a brigadier-general of volunteers, Sept. 23, 1861, and was promoted major-general, March 30, 1863. For distinguished services in the battle of Gettysburg he was brevetted colonel U. S. A., and later brigadier-general. During the war he also took part in the engagements at West Point, Gaines's Mill, and Glendale; in the forcing of Crampton's Gap, in the battles of Antietam, and the storming of Marye's Heights at the battle of Fredericksburg. He is most popularly known as the engineer who removed the dangerous rocks at Hell Gate, New York Harbor. This achievement required the invention of new machinery and the solution of new engineering problems. On Sept. 24, 1876, he blew up Hallett's Reef, and on Oct. 10, 1885, Flood Rock. On March 6, 1884, he was promoted chief of engineers, with the rank of brigadiergeneral, and held the post till his retirement, Aug. 27, 1886. General Newton was commissioner of public works in New York City in 1887-88. He died in New York City, May 1, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker, Theodore 1810- (search)
and Wilkesbarre. These are natural results of causes well known. You cannot escape a principle. Enslave a negro, will you?—you doom to bondage your own sons and daughters by your own act . . . . All this looks as if the third hypothesis would be fulfilled, and slavery triumph over freedom; as if the nation would expunge the Declaration of Independence from the scroll of time, and, instead of honoring Hancock and the Adamses and Washington, do homage to Kane and Grier and Curtis and Hallett and Loring. Then the preamble to our Constitution might read to establish justice, insure domestic strife, hinder the common defence, disturb the general welfare, and inflict the curse of bondage on ourselves and our posterity. Then we shall honor the Puritans no more, but their prelatical tormentors, nor reverence the great reformers, only the inquisitors of Rome. Yea, we may tear the name of Jesus out of the American Bible; yes, God's name. . . . See the steady triumph of despotism!