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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electoral commission. (search)
ere necessary to the success of a candidate. It was decided after the election that Mr. Tilden had 184. Then ensued a long and bitter contest in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana over the official returns, each party charging the other with fraud. There was intense excitement in the Gulf region. In order to secure fair plaoards of canvassers of the votes cast at the election were unmolested. He also appointed distinguished gentlemen of both political parties to go to Louisiana and Florida to be present at the reception of the returns and the counting of the votes. The result was that it was decided, on the count by returning boards, that Hayes hadjority in the House of Representatives. On Dec. 4 a resolution was adopted, providing for the investigation of the action of returning boards in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. There was much excitement in Congress and anxiety among the people. Thoughtful men saw much trouble at the final counting of the votes of the el
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emancipation proclamations. (search)
ral Hunter, the following year. That officer, being in command at Hilton Head, N. C., proclaimed the States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, in his department, under martial law, and May 9, 1862, issued an order in which occurred these words: Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these States—Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore held as slaves are therefore declared forever free. Though President Lincoln had been bitterly , Terre Bonne, Lafourche, Ste. Marie, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, andate. By the Emancipation Proclamation 3,063,392 slaves were set free, as follows: Arkansas111,104 Alabama435,132 Florida61,753 Georgia462,232 Mississippi436,696 North Carolina275,081 South Carolina402,541 Texas180,682 Virginia (part)45
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
d then declaring war; that, though they expressly prohibited to the States and delegated to the United States the entire treaty-making power, they reserved by implication (for an express reservation is not pretended) to the individual States— to Florida, for instance—the right to secede, and then to make a treaty with Spain retroceding that Spanish colony, and thus surrendering to a foreign power the key to the Gulf of Mexico—to maintain propositions like these, with whatever affected seriousneoccupied by the rebel forces, but the abandonment to them of the vast regions we have rescued from their grasp—of Maryland, of a part of eastern Virginia, and the whole of western Virginia; the sea-coast of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri; Arkansas and the larger portion of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas—in most of which, with the exception of lawless guerillas, there is not a rebel in arms; in all of which the great majority of the people
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Exemptions from taxation. (search)
, tools of trade up to $200, school and church property, parsonages up to $500, public libraries, private libraries up to $200, certain farm products. Delaware. Household furniture, books, maps, charts, etc., belonging to churches or charitable institutions, and all professional books, tools of mechanics or manufacturers in actual use, stock of manufactories on hand and imported merchandise, products of farms, vessels trading from ports of the State, all school and church property. Florida. Household property of widows with dependent families and cripples unable to perform manual labor up to $400, all public libraries, church and school property. Georgia. Public libraries, church and school property. Idaho. Household property up to $200, tools of trade, growing crops, books, school property, church property in actual use and not rented. Illinois. Church property in actual use, property of agricultural societies, United States public buildings, cemeteries,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fairbanks, George R. 1820- (search)
Fairbanks, George R. 1820- Historian; born in Watertown, N. Y., July 5, 1820; graduated at Union College in 1839; admitted to the bar in 1842; removed to Florida in 1842; commissioned major in the Confederate army in 1862. He is the author of History and antiquities of St. Augustine; History of Florida, etc. Fairbanks, George R. 1820- Historian; born in Watertown, N. Y., July 5, 1820; graduated at Union College in 1839; admitted to the bar in 1842; removed to Florida in 1842; commissioned major in the Confederate army in 1862. He is the author of History and antiquities of St. Augustine; History of Florida, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Farmers' Alliance, (search)
on after the close of the Civil War. The main purpose of this movement was the mutual protection of farmers against the encroachment of capital. The first body was organized in Texas to prevent the wholesale purchase of public land by private individuals. In 1887 the Farmers' Union of Louisiana united with the Texas organization under the name of the Farmers' Alliance and Co-operative Union of America. The movement soon spread into Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. In 1889 a similar organization, which had been formed in 1877 in Illinois, and which had spread into neighboring States, was amalgamated with the Southern Alliance, and the name of Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union was adopted. The founders of the alliance held that the party was formed along political lines because the parties already existing failed to undertake to solve the problems covered by the demands of the alliance. In 1890 the alliance elected s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Farmers' Institutes. (search)
with which the successful farmer must constantly familiarize himself. The largest amount given by any one State for Farmers' Institutes is appropriated by Wisconsin, the sum being $15,000. Other States give liberally, notably Minnesota, New York, and Ohio, while various sums are given by Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, New Jersey, and a few others. More or less organized work has also been done in Missouri, Arizona, California, South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado, Florida, and, indeed, could the facts all be got together, in almost every State in the Union. The provinces of Ontario and Manitoba have done some of the best work on the continent, both in volume and in quality. In a number of States the funds are not appropriated in a lump sum, but each county may, by vote, levy a tax for the purpose of raising a sufficient sum to carry on one or more institutes, a portion of the amount going towards the payment of the local expenses, and the rest going to t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Flores, (search)
Flores, The westernmost island of the Azores; discovered in 1439. Florida
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
Melendez with 2,500 men reached the coast of Florida on St. Augustine's day, and marched against they seized Pensacola. By the treaty of 1783, Florida was retroceded to Spain, and the western boun who inhabited some of the better portions of Florida, and the government of the United States, andards completed the conquest of the whole of west Florida. The success of Napoleon's arms in Spain east of Mobile Bay. The Georgians coveted east Florida, and in the spring of 1812 Brig.-Gen. Georgorizing the President to take possession of east Florida. The Senate rejected it, for it would haveainst Great Britain. Jackson's invasion of Florida and his capture of Pensacola caused much poliwn interference of the Spanish authorities in Florida in American affairs, and the giving of sheltethe Florida ordinance of secession was passed Florida troops seized, Jan. 6, 1861, the Chattahooche, navy-yard, and other government property in Florida. In the early part of the Civil War the na[34 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Forsyth, John 1780- (search)
tist; born in Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 22, 1780; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1799. His parents removed to Georgia when he was quite young, and there he studied law, and was admitted to its practice about 1801. He was attorney-general of the State in 1808; member of Congress from 1813 to 1818, and from 1823 to 1827; United States Senator, and governor of Georgia from 1827 to 1829. Mr. Forsyth was United States minister to Spain in 1819-22, and negotiated the treaty that gave Florida to the United States. He opposed nullification (q. v.) in South Carolina, favored Clay's compromise act of 1833, and was United States Secretary of State front 1835 till his death, which occurred Oct. 21, 1841. Clergyman; born in Newburg, N. Y.; graduated at Rutgers in 1829; studied theology in Edinburgh University; ordained in 1834; Professor of Biblical Literature in Newburg, 1836; of Latin in Princeton in 1847-53; later again in Newburg, and occupied the Chair of English Literature
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