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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 32 32 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 5: West Point, 1818-25. (search)
telling the story in Mr. Davis's presence asked him if he did not take a great risk. He said, No, I was very quick, and felt sure I had time to try him. General Thomas Drayton wrote of this circumstance: Jeff, by his presence of mind, saved many lives and also the building from being demolished. His horror of oppressing the weak was exhibited throughout his life, and though the professor grew old, honored by the generality of the cadets, Mr. Davis never changed his opinion of him. In 1826, at Christmas, there was a great riot in the corps of cadets. Cadet--, his room-mate, was discovered and dismissed with several others. Davis was implicated unjustly. Because his room-mate had been mistaken for him he would not explain, and consequently was under arrest for a long period, and his already numerous demerits received a considerable addition. He did not pass very high in his class, but attached no significance to class standing, and considered the favorable verdict of his
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 27: in the Thirtieth Congress, 1847-48. (search)
ittees, which showed the confidence in him inspired by his military service. These were the Committees on Military Affairs and on Pensions. He was also one of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, and took a conspicuous and influential part in the organization of it. He was a member of the Library Committee, and advocated with great earnestness Mons. Vattemare's international exchange of the literature of the world. Mons. Alexander Vattemare was the original Herr Alexandre who, from 1826 to 1830 astonished the Old World by his feats of magic or juggling. He conceived the idea in early youth of establishing an universal literary exchange between the authors of the world through their respective governments. The medals, the engravings, and paintings of every country were to be part of the scheme-everything made by man was to be exchanged, so as to disseminate science and the arts by practical knowledge of their achievements. He was a numismatist, a connoisseur of engravings,
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 34: first year in the Cabinet. (search)
ing had been unsuccessful during the preceding year, owing to the great demand for labor. Four thousand six hundred recruits were required for the next year, and at the current rates of pay it was not expected to obtain them. He showed that from 1826 to the opening of the war with Mexico, the average excess of the legal over the actual strength of the army was eighteen per cent. of the latter; that the average actual loss by desertions had been twelve and three-fourths per cent.; by dischargessertions was due to the excitement on account of the discovery of gold in California--the excess from that cause, in one year alone, being fifty-three per cent. over the average of the three succeeding years. An analysis of the desertions from 1826 to 1846 shows that there was a gradual diminution in the proportion of desertions as the condition of the soldier was ameliorated by increase of pay, etc.; and that when the difference between the pay of the soldier and the value of the correspond
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 43: thirty-sixth Congress — Squatter sovereignty, 1859-61. (search)
tion to that of a State was, in the first place, by an act of Congress authorizing the inhabitants to elect representatives to a convention to form a State Constitution, which was then submitted to Congress for approval and ratification. On such ratification the supervisory control of Congress was withdrawn, and the new State authorized to assume its sovereignty, and the inhabitants of the Territory became citizens of a State. In the cases of Tennessee in 1796, and Arkansas and Michigan in 1826, the failure of the inhabitants to obtain an enabling act of Congress, before organizing themselves, very nearly caused the rejection of their applications for admission as States, though they were eventually granted on the ground that the subsequent approval and consent of Congress could heal the prior irregularity. The entire control of Congress over the whole subject of territorial government had never been questioned in earlier times. Necessarily conjoined with the power of this protect