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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Canada (search)
ere called by the British government, and patriots by their friends; and so general became the active sympathy on the northern frontier, that peaceful relations between the United States and Great Britain were endangered. President Van Buren issued a proclamation, calling upon all persons engaged in the schemes of invasion of the Canadian territory to abandon the design, and warning them to beware of the penalties that must assuredly follow such infringement of international laws. In December, 1837, a party of sympathizing Americans took possession of Navy Island, belonging to Canada, in the Niagara River, about 2 miles above the falls. They mustered about 700 men, well provisioned, and provided with twenty pieces of cannon. They had a small steamboat named the Caroline to ply between the island and Schlosser, on the American side. On a dark night a party of Canadian royalists crossed the river, cut the Caroline loose from her moorings, and set her on fire. She went down the cu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 (search)
ined the abolitionists. He conceived it such a wrong in the Constitution of the United States in sanctioning slavery that he could not conscientiously act under his attorney's oath to that Constitution, and he abandoned the profession. From that time until the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 he did not cease to lift up his voice against the system of slavery and in condemnation of the Constitution of the United States. His first great speech against the evil was in Faneuil Hall, in December, 1837, at a meeting to notice in a suitable manner the murder, in the city of Alton, Ill., of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, who fell in defence of the freedom of the press. Mr. Phillips was an eloquent, logical, and effective speaker. He conscientiously abstained from voting under the Constitution, and was ever the most earnest of Garrisonian abolitionists. He was an earnest advocate of other reforms—temperance, labor, and other social relations. He was president of the American Anti-slavery Soc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
Riot in New York against the abolitionists......1834 A geological survey of the State ordered......1836 Union Theological Seminary in New York City founded......1836 Schenectady and Utica Railroad opened......1836 Aaron Burr dies at New York, aged eighty......Sept. 14, 1836 Legislature appropriates $200,000 a year for three years to form township and district libraries......1837 Patriot war—Canada......1837 Navy Island in Niagara River occupied by the Patriots......December, 1837 Steamer Caroline, at Schlosser's Landing, on the American side of Niagara River, is fired and sent over the Falls by Canadian soldiers under Colonel McNab, night of......Dec. 29, 1837 Auburn and Syracuse Railroad opened......1837 William H. Seward elected governor......1838 Free banking law passed......1838 Steamboat Lexington burned in Long Island Sound......Jan. 13, 1840 First State-prison library in the United States started at Sing Sing......1840 Population of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
anova, destroyed by fire......June 21, 1831 Railroad from Cape Fear to Weldon, 162 miles in length, to connect with a short road begun in 1832, is commenced......1833 Convention meets at Raleigh, June 4, 1835, frames amendments to the constitution of 1776 (ratified by the people by 26,771 to 21,606) and adjourns......July 11, 1835 Edward B. Dudley, first governor elected by the people, inaugurated......Jan. 1, 1837 United States branch mint at Charlotte begins operations......December, 1837 Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, incorporated in 1835, is completed......July 4, 1839 Raleigh and Wilmington Railroad, incorporated in 1833, completed and opened......March, 1840 George E. Badger, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy......March 5, 1841 Gold discovered on the lands of Andrew Troutman in Rowan county, afterwards known as Gold Hill......1842 William A. Graham, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy......July 22, 1850 Trinity College chartered and opened