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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 2 2 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Manley, John Mars 1733-1793 (search)
Manley, John Mars 1733-1793 Naval officer; born in Torquay, England, in 1733; became a seaman in early life; settled in Marblehead; commanded a vessel in the merchant service before the Revolutionary War, and was commissioned captain in the naval service by Washington in the fall of 1775. He soon captured in Boston Harbor, with the schooner Lee, three valuable prizes laden with heavy guns, mortars, and intrenching tools, much wanted by the patriots besieging Boston. In August, 1776, Congress commissioned him captain, and placed him in command of the frigate Hancock, thirty-two guns, in which he captured the British man-of-war Fox. the Hancock was captured in July, 1777, and Manley was a prisoner during nearly the whole of the war. In September, 1782, he commanded the frigate Hague, and cruised in the West Indies. He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1793.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
re the independence of the Confederacy, or of absolute subjugation. There was wide-spread discontent; and when news of the re-election of President Lincoln, by an unprecedented majority, reached the people, they yearned for peace rather than for independence. The following is the full text of the fugitive-slave law of 1850: An act to amend and supplementary to the act entitled An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters, approved Feb. 12, 1793. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the persons who have been or may hereafter be appointed commissioners in virtue of any act of Congress, by the circuit courts of the United States, and who, in consequence of such appointment, are authorized to exercise the powers that any justice of the peace, or other magistrate of any of the United States, may exercise in respect to offenders for any crime or offe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ution excluding slavery......Sept. 9, 1850 Northern and western boundaries of Texas established. Texas cedes all claim to territory beyond this boundary, and relinquishes all claim for debt, compensation, or indemnity for the surrender of all United States property; $10,000,000 to be paid by the United States government in stocks bearing 5 per cent. interest, and redeemable at the end of fourteen years......Sept. 9, 1850 Amendments of great stringency to the fugitive slave laws of Feb. 12, 1793, pass the House by 109 to 75, Sept. 12, 1850; approved......Sept. 18, 1850 Slave-trade suppressed from Jan. 1, 1851, in the District of Columbia, by act approved......Sept. 20, 1850 Flogging abolished in the navy and on vessels of commerce by act approved......Sept. 28, 1850 Act granting swamp lands to Arkansas and other States, approved (see March 3, 1857)......Sept. 28, 1850 First session (302 days) adjourns......Sept. 30, 1850 [This session the longest up to this time