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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xiv. The Wilmot Proviso. (search)
Xiv. The Wilmot Proviso. Gen. Cass letter to Nicholson Gen. Taylor chosen President attempts by Gen. Burt, of S. C., and by Senator Douglas, to extend the Compromise line of 36° 30′ to the Pacific. Mr. Polk succeeded Mr. Tyler as President of the United States, March 4, 1845. No change in the policy of the former with regard to Annexation was made, or, with reason, expected. The agent so hastily dispatched to Texas by Mr. Tyler to speed the consummation of the decreed union, was not, of course, recalled. The new President was doubtless gratified to find his predestined work, in which he had expected to encounter some impediments at the hands of Northern members of his own party, so nearly completed to his hand. On the 18th of June, joint resolutions, giving their final consent to Annexation, passed both Houses of the Congress of Texas by a unanimous vote; and this action was ratified by a Convention of the People of Texas on the ensuing 4th of July. The XXIXth
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Polk, James Knox 1795-1849 (search)
enry Clay and James G. Birney (see cabinet, President's). During his administration, the most important event was a war with Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The other chief events of his administration were the establishment of an independent treasury system, the enactment of a low tariff system, and the creation of the Department of the Interior. Three months after he retired from office, he was seized with illness and died in Nashville, Tenn., June 15, 1849. Inaugural Address>head> On March 4, 1845, President Polk delivered the following inaugural address: Fellow-citizens,—Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. I am deeply impressed with gratitude for the confidence reposed in me. Honored with this distinguished consideration at an earlier period of life than any of my predecessors, I cannot disguise the diffidence with which I am about to enter on the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
he same name, and his grandson, Thomas F. Bayard—represented Delaware, the first from January, 1805, till March, 1813; the second from April, 1867, till March, 1869, and the third from March, 1869, till March, 1885. Three other men of the same family name also represented Delaware in the Senate—Joshua Clayton, from Jan. 19, 1798, till his death the following July; Thomas Clayton, from Jan. 8, 1824, till March 3, 1827, and again from Jan. 9, 1837, till March 3, 1847; John M. Clayton, from March 4, 1845, till Feb. 23, 1849, and again from March 4, 1853, till his death, Nov. 9, 1856. Three men named Bell, two of them brothers, the third a son of one of them, represented New Hampshire in the Senate—Samuel Bell, from March 4, 1823, till March 4, 1835; his son, James Bell, from July 30, 1855, till May 26, 1859, and Charles Henry Bell from March 13, 1879, till June 17, 1879. At one time during the Cleveland administration both of the Senators from each of three different States resided in t<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tyler, John 1790-1862 (search)
Tyler, John 1790-1862 Tenth President of the United States, from April 4, 1841, to March 4, 1845; Whig; born in Charles City county, Va., March 29, 1790; graduated at the College of William and Mary in 1807; admitted to the bar in 1809. Two years afterwards he was elected to the Virginia legislature, and was re-elected for five successive years. In 1816 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in Congress—and was twice re-elected—in which he opposed all internal improvements by the general government, the United States Bank, a protective tariff, and all restrictions on slavery. He was afterwards in the State legislature, and in December, 1825, was chosen governor of Virginia by the legislature, to fill a vacancy. In 1827 he became a United States Senator, and was re-elected in 1833, when he was a firm supporter of the doctrine of State supremacy, and avowed his sympathy with the South Carolina Nullifiers. He joined the Whig party, and was elected by them Vice-President of the Unit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
[This bill passed both branches of Congress over the veto, the first veto overruled by Congress.] Texas annexed by a joint resolution......Feb. 28, 1845 Which the President approves......March 1, 1845 Florida admitted as the twenty-seventh State......March 3, 1845 Congress reduces postage on letters to 5 cents within 300 miles, and 10 cents for greater distances......March 3, 1845 Twenty-eighth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1845 Fifteenth administration—Democratic, March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1849. James Knox Polk, Tennessee, President. George Mifflin Dallas, Pennsylvania, Vice-President. Mexican minister demands his passport......March 6, 1845 Andrew Jackson, seventh President, dies at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn., aged seventy-eight......June 8, 1845 By an act of amnesty the Rhode Island legislature releases Thomas W. Dorr, who was under a life sentence for treason......June 27, 1845 Naval school established at Annapolis, Md., while Ge
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
Andrew Jackson, inaugurated, Mar. 4, 1829 Visited Boston, June 30, 1833 Died, aged seventy-eight years, June 8, 1845 Martin Van Buren, inaugurated, Mar. 4, 1837 Died, aged eighty years, July 24, 1862 William Henry Harrison, inaugurated, Mar. 4, 1841 Died, aged sixty-eight years, Apr. 4, 1841 President United States, John Tyler, inaugurated, Apr. 5, 1841 Visited Boston, June 17, 1843 Died, aged seventy-two years, Jan. 17, 1862 James K. Polk, inaugurated, Mar. 4, 1845 Visited Boston, July 4, 1847 Died, aged fifty-four years, June 17, 1849 Zachary Taylor, inaugurated, Mar. 5, 1849 Died, aged sixty-six years, July 10, 1850 Millard Fillmore, inaugurated, July 10, 1850 Visited Boston, at Railroad Jubilee, Oct. 25, 1848 Died, aged seventy-four years, Mar. 8, 1874 Franklin Pierce, inaugurated, Mar. 4, 1853 Died, aged sixty-five years, Oct. 8, 1869 James Buchanan, inaugurated, Mar. 4, 1857 Visited Boston, with Polk, July 4, 18
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
them, but like all the other great emigrations and settlements of that race on our continent, it was an act of the people, going forward without government aid or countenance, establishing their possession and compelling the government to follow with its shield and spread it over them. This movement of immigration to Oregon began in 1842, and was greatly increased in 1843. It was the moving cause of the party zeal in the presidential election of 1844. President Polk came into office March 4, 1845, pledged to assert the American claim to the exclusive possession of Oregon, even if its enforcement should involve war with Great Britain. The matter was speedily brought to the attention of Congress and was made the subject of diplomatic negotiation. From 1820, when Dr. Floyd, of Virginia, had introduced a bill in Congress relative to Oregon, to 1843, when the bill of Mr. Linn passed the Senate, the action of Congress had been inefficient, and the diplomatic negotiations had been pu