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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 7: Secretary of War. (search)
s were subject to the United States, which, contrary to natural right and treaty stipulations, permitted them to invade a weaker neighbor, and did not, on proper remonstrance, compel them to return. Report of the Secretary of State of Texas, 18839, Documents A and B. Texas communicated to the United States her intention to protect herself from the active hostilities and dangerous neighborhood of these savages by their expulsion, Report of the Secretary of State of Texas, letter of March 10, 1839. and drove them back to the territory of the United States, without protest from that Government,--which thus tacitly admitted the propriety of these transactions. General Douglass's report of the battle of the Neches presents the odd feature of a return of thanks to the Vice-President and Secretary of War for active exertions on the field in both engagements, and for having behaved in such manner as reflected great credit upon themselves. Honorable mention by this gallant soldier w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18: Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January, 1839, to March, 1839.—Age, 28. (search)
ducated, and in the opportunities open to them of rising in the scale. Charles Buller was best pleased with all below the silk-stocking classes. Seeing what I have in England, I am not surprised at this. I fear that I have been repeating what I have already written you. But you must pardon any such inadvertencies; for I write at snatches of time, and hardly remember what I have sent you before. For continuation of letter on March 13, see below. To Lord Morpeth. Sunday evening, March 10, 1839. my dear Morpeth,—I have just received an invitation from Lord Holland Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 1773-1840, third Lord Holland, the nephew of Charles James Fox, was a Liberal statesman, a friend of scholars, and a kindly host. See sketch in Brougham's Autobiography, Vol. III. p. 298. There is a reference to Lady Holland's career in Life of Lord Denman, Vol. II. p. 119. Macaulay, a welcome and frequent guest at Holland House, commemorated its hospitality in the Edinburgh Review,