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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1 1 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 7: (search)
one of the most pronounced advocates of a strong central government in the convention, said: He came here to form a compact for the good of Americans. He was ready to do so with all the States. He hoped and believed they all would enter into such a compact. If they would not, he would be ready to join with any States that would. But, as the compact was to be voluntary, it is in vain for the Eastern States to insist on what the Southern States will never agree to. Madison Papers, pp. 1081, 1082. Madison, while inclining to a strong government, said: In the case of a union of people under one Constitution, the nature of the pact has always been understood, etc. Ibid., p. 1184. Hamilton, in the Federalist, repeatedly speaks of the new government as a confederate republic and a confederacy, and calls the Constitution a compact. See especially Nos. IX and LXXXV. General Washington—who was not only the first President under the new Constitution, but who had presided over
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
arrel. 1255 is a five-chambered French flint-lock gun of the eighteenth century. 1256 is a gun of the same date, with six chambers. Revolvers (from the fifteenth century to 1818). 2. (Husbandry.) A hay or stubble rake whose head has two sets of teeth projecting from opposite sides in the same plane. The set in advance having collected a load, the rake is tipped, making half a revolution, discharging the load and bringing the other set of teeth into action. See Fig. 2454, page 1082. Re-volv′ing. Having a motion in an orbit, as that of a planet around the sun; the cylinder of a revolving-cylinder steam-engine around the shaft; the planet-wheel of the sun-and-planet motion around the sun-wheel. The terms rotary and revolving should not be confounded, as they are needed in their specific senses. Rotation on an axis, as a carriage-wheel, a sunwheel. Revolution, as cited above. Revolving-brush. Re-volv′ing-boil′er. （Paper-making.) A boiler for pa