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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 192 192 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 34 34 Browse Search
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) 30 30 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 27 27 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 10 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. 9 9 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 9 9 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 8 8 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 7 7 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 6 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
turbances and of bloodshed. From the time of its discovery by Columbus in 1492, the portion of it now seized remained for three hundred years a Spanish colony, till 1796, when it was ceded to the French.--The other portion of the island now called Hayti had at a previous period been transferred from Spain to France by the bold seizure of it by the Buccaneers. The Spanish colony embraces the largest part of the island and has not been the seene of so many horrors as the French. From 1814 to 1821 it held some slack allegiance to the Spanish Crown, but then a lawyer, named Minez, arrested the Spanish Governor, and a declaration of Independence was at once issued, recognized a few years later by France on condition that its ports should be open to the ships of all nations. From that time to 1843 the Spanish and French portions (that is, the whole island,) became united under the presidency of Boyer. Then, after three years of strife followed Souluque over the French part in 1846. But