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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 51 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), I. First months (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 8 (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emancipation proclamations. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Higher law doctrine. (search)
Higher law doctrine.
In the debate on the admission of California into the Union as a free State, William H. Seward, on March 11, 1850, said in the course of his speech: The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
The territory is a part— no inconsiderable part—of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe.
We are His stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hinton , Richard Josiah 1830 - (search)
Hinton, Richard Josiah 1830-
Author; born in London, England, Nov. 25, 1830; came to the United States in 1851; settled in Kansas in 1856; served in the National army throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel.
He engaged in journalism in Washington, New York, and San Francisco.
He is the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of William H. Seward; Handbook of Arizona; Life of Gen. P. H. Sheridan; John Brown; The making of the New West, etc.