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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
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. 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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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., chapter 19 (search)
any covetous designs on Cuba, was presented, on the 23d of April, to Mr. Webster, then our Secretary of State, and by him courteously acknowledged, six days later, in a note which, though not without demur, expressed the acquiescence of our Government in the general views expressed by France and England with reference to Cuba, and gave assurances that, The President will take M. de Sartiges' communication into consideration, and give it his best reflections. Mr. Webster being dead Oct. 24th, 1852. and Mr. Everett duly installed as his successor, the latter answered December 1, 1852. a note of M. de Sartiges, recalling Mr. Webster's attention to this subject, under date of July 8th. In this answer, our Government peremptorily declines, for various and elaborately stated reasons, any such convention or compact as that proposed to it by France and England. While still disclaiming, pro forma, any desire or intention on our part of acquiring Cuba, this document affords the stron
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
for Vice-President.] Henry Clay dies at Washington, D. C., aged seventy-five......June 29, 1852 Branch of the United States mint established at San Francisco, Cal.......July 3, 1852 Free-soil convention at Pittsburg, Pa.......Aug. 11, 1852 [Named John P. Hale, New Hampshire, for President, and George W. Julian, Indiana, for Vice-President.] First session adjourns (after a session of 275 days)......Aug. 31, 1852 Daniel Webster dies at Marshfield, Mass., aged seventy......Oct. 24, 1852 Seventeenth Presidential election takes place......Nov. 2, 1852 Second session assembles......Dec. 6, 1852 Caloric ship Ericsson makes a trial-trip from New York to the Potomac......Jan. 11, 1853 Congress transfers all that portion of the Cumberland road which lies between Springfield, O., and the western boundary of that State to Ohio, by act approved......Jan. 20, 1853 Electoral vote counted......Feb. 9, 1853 Coinage of $3 gold pieces authorized, and the weight of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
Canada.] Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave, arrested in Boston and sent back into slavery......April 12, 1851 [He is sold in New Orleans to a brickmason of Vicksburg, from whence he escapes in 1863 to the besieging army of General Grant, who sent him North.] Senatorial contest in the State legislature between Charles Sumner (Freesoil) and Robert C. Winthrop. Charles Sumner elected on the twenty-sixth ballot......April 24, 1851 Daniel Webster dies at Marshfield, aged seventy......Oct. 24, 1852 Law fixing the hours of labor for a day, from Oct. 1, 1853, to April 1, 1854, at twelve hours; from April 1, 1854, until Oct. 1, 1854, at eleven hours; and after Oct. 1, 1854, at ten hours......May 17, 1853 New constitution framed by a convention met at Boston, May 7, 1853; completes its work......Aug. 1, 1853 [Submitted to the people, but not ratified.] Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society organized by Eli Thayer, and incorporated......April 20, 1854 Anthony Burns seized as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 (search)
led, with great distinction, until his death. Mr. Webster delivered many remarkable orations on occasions, notably on laying the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill monument (June 17, 1825), and on the completion of the monument (June 17, 1843). He paid much attention to agriculture at Marshfield, and was fond of hunting and fishing. His last great effort in the courts was in January, 1852, when he argued an important India-rubber patent case at Trenton, N. J. He died in Marshfield, Mass., Oct. 24, 1852. Webster's reply to Hayne. The following is the text of Senator Webster's reply to the speech of Senator Robert Y. Hayne (q. v.): Mr. President,—When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float farther re
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
a lawyer and orator. He became U. S. representative from New Hampshire and later from Massachusetts, and in 1827 was made U. S. Senator from the latter state. Some of the best known of his public orations are those on the Bunker Hill monument, on the Pilgrim anniversary, and the eulogium on Jefferson and Adams. His most celebrated political speech is his Reply to Hayne. A collection of his Works appeared in 1851, and of his Private correspondence in 1856. Died in Marshfield, Mass., Oct. 24, 1852. Whipple, Edwin Percy Born in Gloucester, Mass., March 8, 1819. At the age of fourteen, he published articles in the Salem newspapers, and soon became superintendent of the news-room of the Merchants' Exchange, Boston. Eventually he gave up journalism to devote himself entirely to literature. He became known as a critic from his article on Macaulay, which appeared in the Boston Miscellany (1843); and the same year he began to lecture. He was literary editor of the Boston Globe,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 16: Webster (search)
ring which he concluded with Great Britain the important Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Once more in the Senate after 1845, Webster opposed the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War. As the struggle over slavery grew more violent he turned to the side of Clay and in the famous Seventh of March Speech defended Clay's Compromise Bill, with the result that he was bitterly denounced in the North as a renegade. The same year he became secretary of state again. He died under a kind of cloud, 24 October, 1852, but there can be little doubt that he, more than any other one man, contributed to the growth of that sentiment of union which sustained the national idea during the Civil War.—the editors, He loved literature undoubtedly. He had been educated, both at school and at college, upon the old classical system, and it is obvious that he always retained his knowledge of Latin: in fact, he was a good Latin scholar. There is no evidence that he was a good Greek scholar or even kept up the