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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2,462 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 692 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 516 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 418 0 Browse Search
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 358 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 298 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 230 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 190 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 186 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 182 0 Browse Search
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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 2: (search)
Acts, in addition to the old Missouri Compromise, embraced all our remaining Territories, whether derived from Mexico or France. They terminated the agitation on the Wilmot Proviso, by depriving it of any territory on which it could operate. The perpetual freedom throughout the vast remaining territory north of the parallel of 36° 30′, which had been acquired from France under the Louisiana Treaty. For its history, vide Appendix to Con. Globe, 1st session 83d Congress, p. 226. These wereState into the Union. 3 U. S. Laws, 455. It is embraced in the following language: That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36° 30′ north latitude, not included within the li separate portions of our territorial domain. Whilst the Missouri Compromise was confined to the territory acquired from France under the Louisiana purchase, that of 1850 provided only for the new territory long afterwards acquired from Mexico under<
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 12: (search)
g a drag-net, without the shadow of authority from the House, over the whole Union, to catch any disappointed man willing to malign my character, and all this in secret conclave. The lion's mouth at Venice, into which secret denunciations were dropped, is an apt illustration of the Covode Committee. The Star Chamber, tyrannical and odious as it was, never proceeded in such a manner. For centuries there has been nothing like it in any civilized country, except the revolutionary tribunal of France, in the days of Robespierre. Now, I undertake to state and to prove that should the proceedings of the committee be sanctioned by the House, and become a precedent for future times, the balance of the Constitution will be entirely upset, and there will no longer remain the three coordinate and independent branches of the Government—legislative, executive, and judicial. The worst fears of the patriots and statesmen who framed the Constitution in regard to the usurpations of the legislative
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 13: (search)
oved to be one of great delicacy. England and France were engaged in war against China, and urged tte cordially with the Ministers of England and France in all peaceful measures to secure by treaty te same commercial advantages which England and France might acquire by war. This task our Minister psatisfactory footing with those of England and France, and have resulted in the actual payment of th was his known policy to seek new colonies for France; and his minister exercised great influence ovsarily involve the United States in a war with France in vindication of the Monroe doctrine. The n the person of Louis XVIII., to the throne of France. Emboldened by this success, Russia, Austria,a, in 1815, formed the Holy Alliance. To this France, and nearly all the other continental powers, ted before the French Revolution. Accordingly France was deputed to destroy, by force of arms, the nceforth is employed because Great Britain and France, at the date of the message, not to speak of t