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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cresson, Elliott 1796-1854 (search)
Cresson, Elliott 1796-1854 Philanthropist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 2, 1796; was a member of the Society of Friends, a successful merchant, and a man devoted to the promotion of the interests of the Indians and the negroes. He planned a colonization of American negroes in Africa, and was actively engaged in establishing the first colony of liberated slaves at Bassa Cove. Subsequently he was president of the American Colonization Society (q. v.), and in 1838-53 labored in its behalf in New England, the Southern States, and Great Britain. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20, 1854, and bequeathed property valued at over $150,000 to charitable purposes.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jay, John 1817-1894 (search)
France. She has a government congenial to our own. Citizens, your security depends on France. Let us unite with her and stand or fall together! shouted opposition orators throughout the country. The Democrats adorned their hats with the French cockade. Jay was burned in effigy in many places, and longings for the guillotine were freely expressed in public assemblies. When the President had proclaimed the treaty as the law of the land, he, according to promise, sent a copy of it, March 2, 1796, to the House. Its appearance was the beginning of a violent debate in that body, which turned upon the question whether the House possessed discretionary power to carry the treaty into execution or not at its pleasure. The debate arose on a motion of Edward Livingston, of New York, calling upon the President for his instructions to Jay and other papers relating to the treaty. After about thirty speeches, in a debate of three weeks, which grew warmer and warmer the longer it lasted, t