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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 11: (search)
lay in the submitting of the report, it was to prevent the committee from making a favorable report on the case and casting out Ransom's votes. When he had made his argument before the committee he changed the whole feature of the case, and an adverse report was made upon the side of Abbott and in favor of Ransom. Naturally we were pretty well worn out for a week afterward, but we were young in those days and soon recovered from the overtaxing of our mental and physical strength. January 1, 1872, President and Mrs. Grant gave the usual New Year's reception. There were most elaborate preparations made for the reception, as there was at that time a greater number of officers of high rank of the army, navy, and marine corps in Washington than have ever been there at one time before or since. The Diplomatic Corps was represented by distinguished men, as Washington had been considered an important post during the long years of the Civil War. New Year's Day was bright and clear
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
suffrage convention at Topeka......Feb. 4, 1869 Eight million acres of the Osage diminished reserve lands opened by Congress to settlement......April 10, 1869 Indian raids on the Republican River......May 21, 1869 Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified by Kansas......Jan. 19, 1870 Legislature adjourns after ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States......March 3, 1870 First number of Kansas Magazine: issued......Jan. 1, 1872 Liberal Republican Convention at Topeka, organized to rebuke the corruptions and usurpations which have characterized our State and national politics ......April 10, 1872 Act of Congress for the removal of Kansas Indians......May 8, 1872 Congress provides for the removal of Osage Indians and the sale of their lands......July 15, 1872 Session of farmers' State convention at Topeka; constitution of the Farmers' Cooperative Association formed......March 26, 1873 Rich discove
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
and faithful teacher in engravings, who has undertaken to order from Europe a few choice old productions for me. He gratified this taste a few months later in Paris, both in looking over collections and also in purchases. He appreciated the general effect of an engraving, but he had not the eye of a connoisseur who can discover its place in the order of impressions. He had always, as a paper written by him later in life shows, The Best Portraits in Engraving, published in The city, Jan. 1, 1872. Works, vol. XIV. pp. 327-354. a lively interest in the history of the art and in the biographies of eminent engravers. Hitherto during the session Sumner was hoping that he was near the end of his disability, and at times assured inquirers that he was almost well; but a difficulty in walking and in rising from his seat reminded him that he was still an invalid. In April, while at Washington, he suffered a relapse. With no immediate cause that was apparent except a slight over-exer
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
orations. A bid providing for the emancipation of slaves, with compensation to the owners, is now before the Legislature of Delaware. By this bill it is provided that all slaves over thirty-five years of age shall be freed within ninety days after it becomes a law; all under thirty-five shall become free on reaching that age; all males born after the bill becomes a law are to be slaves until they are twenty-one, and females till they are eighteen; and all slavery is to cease after January 1, 1872. These provisions are made conditional upon this, that "Congress will, at its present session, engage to pay to the State of Delaware, in bonds of the United States, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, the sum of $900,000, in ten annual instalments, $90,000 to be payable on some day before the first day of September, 1862, to establish a fund for securing full and fair compensation to the owners of slaves who shall have been divested of their property by force of th