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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 2 2 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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 1 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 32: Missouri Compromise. (search)
I did not desire to hear from you often, and be kindly remembered by you. If I know myself, you do me justice in supposing my efforts in the session of 1850 were directed to the maintenance of our constitutional rights as members of the Union, and that I did not sympathize with those who desired the dissolution of the Union. After my return to Mississippi in 185 I, I took ground against the policy of secession, and drew the resolution, adopted by the democratic State Rights convention of June, 1851, which declared that secession was the last alternative, the final remedy, and should not be resorted to under existing circumstances. I thought the State should solemnly set the seal of her disapprobation on some of the measures of the Compromise. When a member of the U. S. Senate, I opposed them because I thought them wrong and of dangerous tendency, and also because the people in every form, and the legislature by resolutions of instructions, required me to oppose them. But indisc
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, IV. (search)
e regiment s new headquarters at Detroit should have been his post that winter; but a brother officer, ordered to Sackett's Harbor, preferred the gayety of Detroit, and managed--one sees the thing to-day often enough — to have Grant sent to Sackett's Harbor, and himself made acting quartermaster at Detroit. This meanness was righted by General Scott in the spring; and in later days Grant, having the chance to even things with the brother officer, did not take it, but stood his friend. In June, 1851, Sackett's Harbor became regimental Headquarters; and Grant was there for twelve months, when he was ordered to the Pacific by way of the Isthmus. On account of her health, Mrs. Grant did not go with him. He passed the next year on the Columbia River, at what is now Fort Vancouver, where he was both post and regimental quartermaster. One last year he spent as captain of F Company, Fourth Infantry, at Humboldt Bay. Then he left the army, resigning July 31, 1854. Such were his moves an
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 2: (search)
resent in the battle. He was afterwards brevetted captain for conduct in the capture of Mexico, and his commission was dated back to that period. Upon his return, his company was stationed at West Point, and he remained there with them till June, 1851, much of the time in command. His leisure hours were spent in studies connected with his profession. Among other things, he prepared an elaborate lecture upon the campaign of Napoleon in 1812, which was read before a literary society. Of thiegulation, a part of the system of instruction. The recommendation was adopted by the War Department, and the manual was officially printed. It forms a small duodecimo volume of about a hundred pages, with a number of plates in outline. In June, 1851, Captain McClellan was ordered to Fort Delaware, as assistant to Major John Sanders in the construction of the works there. Here he remained till near the close of the ensuing winter. Early in March, 1852, Captain Randolph B. Marcy, of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), San Francisco, (search)
, the name was changed to San Francisco. The first steamer of the Pacific Mail Company reached San Francisco Feb. 28, 1849, and the discovery of gold in the same year brought hundreds of steamships and sailing vessels filled with gold-seekers. The excitement was so great that at one time 400 ships were in the harbor, which had been deserted by their crews. The usual conditions of a frontier mining town soon developed, and crime became so rampant that a vigilance committee was formed in June, 1851, which hung several murderers and banished many others. Order was soon restored, but in 1856 another vigilance committee was organized, which did its work thoroughly. San Francisco contains a larger number of Chinese than any other American city. They occupy a quarter of the city which is much visited by tourists. The Mid-winter Exposition of 1894 brought many thousands of visitors from the East, and since then San Francisco has been a favorite place for holding national and intern
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
es the whole body of the log to chip. The rotating drum has adjustable serrated cutters. The wood is fed on an inclined slide, and propelled by a toothed follower, actuated by a spur-wheel and rack. See also Barkplaning machine ; Rossing-machine. Dye-wood cutter. Dyke. 1. (Mining.) A bank of basalt or whin by which the strata or lodes are frequently divided. 2. A sea-wall. See dike. Dy-nacti-nom′e-ter. An instrument described by M. Claudet ( Philosophical magazine, June, 1851), for measuring the intensity of the photogenic rays of light, and computing the power of objectglasses. See actinometer. Dy-nam′e-ter. An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a telescope. The magnifying power is the ratio of the solar focal distance of the object-glass to the focal distance of the eye-piece considered as a single lens; and this ratio being the same as the ratio of the diameter of the aperture of the telescope to the diameter of its image or disk for
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 7: the shadow of slavery (search)
ce as trade concentrates it becomes cleaner, fairer, more upright. The great operator may be no honester intrinsically than his petty rival, but his public is far wider and its opinions more important. But the fear of dissolution and secession had become deeply fixed even at that early day in the minds of the Southern people, and especially in those of the South-Carolinians. Greeley was abroad, and Dana had not yet come to regard our political situation as one of pressing danger. In June, 1851, he wrote with incredulity: What can South Carolina expect to do in the way of forcible secession on her own account? Far-sighted and vigilant as he was, it is clear that the dissolution of the Union had not yet come to be the all-absorbing topic of public discussion. Evidently the widespread spirit of revolution which in 1848-49 had threatened every government in Europe, and had so impressed him during his travels abroad with the necessity for social and economic reform, still
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
ort time she lived at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she learned much about the condition of slaves in the South. Her experience is brought out in Uncle Tom's cabin, which was written for the purpose of convincing the North of the horrors which attended the institution of slavery. Among her publications are The Mayflower, or short sketches of the descendants of the Pilgrims (1849); Uncle Tom's cabin, or life among the Lowly, which first appeared in the National era of Washington, D. C., between June, 1851, and April, 1852, and was published in book form in 1852 ; A key to uncle Tom's cabin, Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with Corroborative statements Verifying the truth of the work (1853) ; a peep into uncle Tom's cabin, for children (1853); Sunny memories of foreign lands (1854); Dred: a tale of the great Dismal Swamp (1856); The Minister's Wooing (1859); Old town Folks (1869); Lady Byron Vindicated, a history of the Byron controversy
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ories of her old home set down with an exile's affection, she grew rapidly in knowledge and experience. Married in 1836 to Professor Calvin E. Stowe of the Seminary, mother by 1850 of seven children, she returned in that year to Brunswick, Maine, where Professor Stowe had accepted a position in Bowdoin College. There, deeply stirred by the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law, she began Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the Lowly, which ran as a serial in The national era of Washington from June, 1851, to April, 1852, and then, on its appearance in two volumes in March, 1852, met with a popular reception never before or since accorded to a novel. Its sales went to the millions. Over five hundred thousand Englishwomen signed an address of thanks to the author; Scotland raised a thousand pounds by a penny offering among its poorest people to help free the slaves; in France and Germany the book was everywhere read and discussed; while there were Russians who emancipated their serfs out o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
Massachusetts, her native State. In 1846, upon the second marriage of his mother, to Mr. Charles C. Bowman, Edward assumed the name of his step-father. He remained for a time in Massachusetts, receiving instruction at home. In his autobiography in the Class-Book he gives the following sketch of his early life:— I was educated at home until about ten years old, when my father, having considerable interests in San Francisco, sent for us to join him there. I sailed from New York in June, 1851, in the clipper ship Flying Cloud, and made the trip to San Francisco in eighty-nine days (by way of Cape Horn), being the shortest time on record to the present day. The voyage was to me a period of unmixed pleasure and enjoyment; and the same is to be said of my stay among the beautiful scenes and under the genial skies of California. I then went to the school of Rev. Mr. Prevaux, who, though I believe a well-educated man, was much impeded by the instability which at that time education
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)
arrested, a nine days sensation, Apr. 3, 1851 Anthony Burns arrested, a nine days sensation, May 26, 1854 Emancipation throughout the United States proclaimed, Jan. 1, 1863 Sleighs carrying sixty-two persons, come in use, Feb., 1846 Smokers in the streets on Sundays, arrested and fined, April, 1822 In the streets on week-days, arrested and fined, Oct., 1829 In the streets, vigorously prosecuted, June, 1848 Smokers' Retreat with seats prepared on the Common, June, 1851 Snodgrass, Emma A girl about the streets in men's clothes, Nov., 1852 Small-pox prevalent in town, Nov., 1633 Forty persons died during the year , 1666 Very fatal in town and country, Nov., 1698 Carried off many inhabitants, 1702 Inoculation with kine-pox, by Dr. Boylston, May, 1721 Red flags denote its presence, May, 1751 Inoculation forbidden by the Governor, Jan., 1764 Rages in town, the Court removed to Concord, Nov., 1792 10,000 school children vacc
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