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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 (search)
eventieth year. in 1864, his birthday was celebrated by a festival at the Century Club by prominent literary men. His translations of Homer into English blank verse were commended as the best rendering of the Epics in his native tongue ever made. His occasional speeches and more formal orations are models of stately style, sometimes enlivened by quiet humor. In prose composition Mr. Bryant was equally happy as in poetry in the choice of pure and elegant English words, with great delicacy of fancy pervading the whole. His last poem was published in the Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1878, on the subject of Washington, and written at the request of the editor of that paper. At the time of his death he was engaged with Sydney Howard Gay in the preparation of a History of the United States. He had also just completed, with the assistance of the late Evart A. Duykinck, a new and carefully annotated edition of Shakespeare's works. He died in New York City, June 12. 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greenback party, (search)
principal for which coin had been specifically promised. For a time the progress of the Greenback party was hindered by the adoption of these three propositions in the Democratic State conventions, but in 1876 the party was again revived. A national convention was held in Indianapolis, May 17, 1876, and Peter Cooper, of New York, was nominated for President, with Samuel F. Cory, of Ohio, for Vice-President. The election returns showed a popular vote of 81,737 for these candidates. On Feb. 22, 1878, the Labor-reform and Greenback parties were united in a national convention held in Toledo, O., and a few new resolutions in favor of legislative reduction of working-men's hours of labor and against the contract system of using inmates of prisons were added to the Greenback platform. This fusion of the two parties met with much approbation, as was evidenced in the State and congressional elections of 1878, when more than 1,000,000 votes were polled and fourteen congressmen were elec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
1877 President's message recommends resumption of specie payment, Jan. 1, 1879......Dec. 3, 1877 President and Mrs. Hayes celebrate their silver wedding at the White House......Dec. 31, 1877 About 100 lives, chiefly railroad engineers and artisans bound for Brazil, lost by wreck of the steamship Metropolis near Kitty Hawk, N. C.......Jan. 31, 1878 Greenback National Convention in Toledo, O., organizes a National Greenback party, with Judge Francis W. Hughes as president......Feb. 22, 1878 Bland silver bill, as amended, passed over the President's veto......Feb. 28, 1878 Benjamin F. Wade, born 1800, dies at Jefferson, O.......March 2, 1878 American register to be issued to, and naval officers detailed for, the Jeannette (fitted for a Polar expedition by James Gordon Bennett), by act......March 18, 1878 William M. Tweed, born 1823, dies in Ludlow Street jail, New York......April 12, 1878 Thomas W. Ferry chosen president pro tem. of the Senate......April 17, 1
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
May. 1872, pp. 531, 532, 666) disagrees with the general's memory of what took place in the Cabinet. April 14, 1865. General Grant also stated to George William Curtis that Sumner had neglected to report several treaties; but when Harper's weekly of Dec. 8, 1877, was shown to him, which gave the record of the Senate proving that he had reported them with due promptness, the general continued to assume in an extended conversation that the senator had not reported them. (New York Herald, Feb. 22, 1878. containing letter from Cairo, January 17.) His anachronism in his comments on the Alabama claims has already been pointed out. (Ante, p. 398, note.) General Grant's accuracy as a narrator of military affairs has been contested by several authors. Misunderstandings: Halleck and Grant; J. B. Fry, Magazine of American History, vol. XVI. p. 561. The Mistakes of Grant; by W. S. Rosecrans, North American Review, December, 1885, pp. 580-599. Grant versus The Record; by Carswell McClellan.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
eaving the committee, had not told Mr. Curtis the facts, and had made these statements knowing them to be falsehoods. The general offered, as he said at the time to Mr. Curtis, to prove his assertion by the records of the state department, and afterwards gave Mr. Curtis a list which he had procured from it (G. W. Curtis in the New York Herald, Nov. 13, 1877; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 8. 1877, March 16, 1878). General Grant, however, in an interview at Cairo, reported in the New York Herald, Feb. 22, 1878, disclaimed so much of the interview in Scotland as made him impute intentional falsehood to Sumner. It is, however, curious to note that the main subject of this interview was the leader in Harper's Weekly, Dec. 8, 1877, which explicitly stated that, as now shown by the divulged records of the Senate Sumner had done his full duty as to the treaties; and the list, therefore, of unreported treaties sent by the general to Mr. Curtis was not a true one. Nevertheless, the general kept on i
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
would have had if appointed when first recommended. We leave here on the 7th to take up our travels again. I have given you our proposed route in a previous letter I believe. When you write to Babcock give him and his family my kindest regards. All my family join me in desiring to be kindly remembered to you. Yours Truly, U. S. Grant. Gen. A. Badeau. Letter no. Thirty-one. This letter refers to my account of Sherman's movements around Atlanta. Smyrna, Asia Minor, Feb. 22d 1878. My dear General:—On our arrival here this A. M. I found a mail, and with it your letter and the enclosed chapter. I have read it carefully and see no word to change. I am glad you have submitted it to Sherman. He must feel pleased with the way you have treated his Atlanta Campaign, and if there is any error, in fact, he will correct it. He is at Washington where he has access to all the records and if there is any mistake in minor details he will be able to inform you. You no dou