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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 4 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 3 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 06, 1860., [Electronic resource] 1 1 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
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 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
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) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moore, John Bassett 1860- (search)
Moore, John Bassett 1860- Author; born in Smyrna, Del., Dec. 3, 1860; was educated at the University of Virginia, and John Bassett Moore. admitted to the bar of Delaware in 1883. In 1885 he was appointed law clerk in the State Department in Washington, D. C., and in the following year became third assistant Secretary of State. In 1891 he resigned this office to accept the chair of International Law and Diplomacy in Columbia University. In April, 1898, he was recalled to the United States Department of State, and in September became secretary and counsel to the American Peace Commissioners in Paris. He is author of Extradition and Interstate rendition; American notes on the conflict of laws; History and digest of international arbitrations, etc., and one of the editors of the Political Science quarterly, and of the Journal du droit international Prive;. See Professor Moore's article on the Alaskan boundary, in vol. i., p. 81.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of South Carolina, (search)
bers of the convention was held, and the Charleston Mercury was enabled to say to the officers of the army and navy natives of that State it was calling home, You need have no more doubt of South Carolina's going out of the Union than of the world's turning round. Every man that goes to the convention will be a pledged man—pledged for immediate separate State secession in any event whatever. This promise was uttered before the members of the convention had been chosen. They were chosen Dec. 3, 1860. They met at Columbia on the 17th, and chose David F. Jamison president. The great prevalence of small-pox there caused the delegates to adjourn to Charleston, where they proceeded at once to business. They chose several committees, one of which was to draft an ordinance of secession. J. A. Inglis was chairman of that committee, and on Dec. 20 reported the David F. Jamison. following ordinance: We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
0 [Out of 385 persons on board, 287 were lost.] William Walker, Nicaraguan filibuster, captured and shot at Truxillo, Nicaragua......Sept. 12, 1860 Prince of Wales arrives at Detroit, Mich., from Canada......Sept. 21, 1860 After visiting Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, he embarks for England from Portland, Me.......Oct. 20, 1860 Nineteenth Presidential election held......Nov. 6, 1860 Second session assembles......Dec. 3, 1860 President's message contends that the South has no legal right to secede, and the government no power to prevent secession......Dec. 4, 1860 A special committee of thirty-three, one from each State, appointed by the House upon the condition of the country......Dec. 4, 1860 [This committee submitted five propositions, Jan. 14, 1861; but one, that proposing a Constitutional amendment, ever reached the Senate.] Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of Treasury, resigns......Dec. 10,