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Boycotting,
A practice which derives its name from Capt. C. C. Boycott, of Lough Mask House, in Mayo, Ireland, who in 1880, as land agent of Lord Erne, an Irish nobleman, evicted a large number of tenants.
These with their friends refused to either work for him or trade with him, and would not permit others to do so. Finally sixty Orangemen from the north of Ireland, armed with revolvers and supported by a strong escort of cavalry, organized themselves into a Boycott relief expedition, and after gathering his crops carried him to a place of safety.
In the United States and England the boycott is sometimes used by trade unions in times of strikes.
More or less stringent laws against boycotting have been enacted in Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, Connecticut. Maine. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Alabama. Florida, Georgia. Michigan, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Vermont.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burgoyne , Sir John , 1723 -1792 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chittenden , Thomas 1730 -1797 (search)
Chittenden, Thomas 1730-1797
First governor of Vermont; born in East Guilford, Conn., Jan. 6, 1730.
He held local offices in his native State before 1774, when he emigrated to the New Hampshire Grants, and settled at Williston.
During the Rev was an active participant in the councils of his State, and was a leader in the convention which (Jan. 16, 1777) dedared Vermont an independent State.
He was also a leader in the convention (July, 1777) which formed a constitution for that State, and president of the council of safety vested with governmental powers.
He was elected governor of Vermont in 1778, and, with the exception of one year, filled that office until his death, during which time the controversy between New York and Vermo in 1778, and, with the exception of one year, filled that office until his death, during which time the controversy between New York and Vermont was settled and the latter admitted as a State of the Union.
He died in Williston, Vt., Aug. 24, 1797.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Collamer, Jacob
Born in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1791; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1810; admitted to the bar in 1813; elected a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1833; served until his election to Congress in 1843; appointed Postmaster-General under President Taylor in March, 1849; elected United States Senator in 1854, and served until his death, in Woodstock, Vt., Nov. 9, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Disunion, early threats of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Divorce laws. (search)