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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
g a prize for the best sermon on free-trade in negroes. This proposition was approved, and pulpits exhibited zeal in the cause. James H. Thornwell, D. D., president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbus, S. C., asserted his conviction that the African slave-trade formed the most worthy of all missionary societies. Southern legislatures and conventions openly discussed the subject of reopening the slave-trade. The Southern Commercial Convention, held in Vicksburg, Miss., May 11, 1859, resolved, by a vote of 47 to Scene in a Southern slave town. 16, that all laws, State or federal, prohibiting the African slave-trade ought to be abolished. It was warmly advocated by several men who became Confederate leaders in the Civil War. The late John Slidell (q. v.), of Louisiana, urged in the United States Senate the propriety of withdrawing American cruisers from the coasts of Africa, that the slave-trade might not be interfered with by them. When, in the summer of 1858,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
jamin Rice, a free-State prisoner......Dec. 16, 1858 Samuel Medary, governor, arrives at Lecompton......Dec. 18, 1858 John Brown and his men go into Missouri, liberate fourteen slaves, and bring them into Kansas......Dec. 20, 1858 Kansas in 1858, by W. P. Tomlinson, contains a history of the troubles in Linn and Bourbon counties......Dec. 31, 1858 Democratic territorial convention, Tecumseh, states that the slavery question is practically settled in favor of a free State ......May 11, 1859 Republican party organized in Kansas; convention at Osawatomie addressed by Horace Greeley......May 18, 1859 Beginning of a drought which lasted until November, 1860, and caused the Kansas famine ......June, 1859 Convention at Wyandotte adopts a constitution......July 29, 1859 Vote for Wyandotte constitution: For, 10,421; against, 5,530......Oct. 4, 1859 Abraham Lincoln speaks at Elwood......Dec. 1, 1859 Abraham Lincoln speaks in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Atchiso
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
es......1851 Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, appointed United States Secretary of War by President Pierce......March 5, 1853 Amendment to the constitution ratified, appointing the first Monday in October as day for general election, and making the term of office of the governor two years......Feb. 2, 1856 Jacob Thompson Secretary of the Interior......March 6, 1857 Southern convention delegates from eight States assemble at Vicksburg and consider reopening the slave-trade......May 11, 1859 Whitworth female college at Brookhaven opened and chartered......1859 By joint resolution the legislature directs the governor to appoint commissioners to the several slave-holding States, asking their co-operation in secession. Legislature adjourned......Nov. 30, 1860 State convention meets at Jackson, Jan. 7, 1861, passes an ordinance of secession, Jan. 9, 84 to 15......Jan. 15, 1861 Confederates occupy the unfinished fort on Ship Island, under construction since 1855.....