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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wood, John 1775-1822 (search)
d States in 1800; became editor of the Western world in Kentucky in 1816; and had charge of The Atlantic world, Washington, D. C.; removed to Richmond, Va., where he was employed in making county maps. He wrote History of the administration of John Adams; Full statement of the trial and acquittal of Aaron Burr; Full Exposition of the Clintonian faction, and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati; Narrative of the suppression, by Colonel Burr, of the history of the administration of John Adams,John Adams, with a biography of Jefferson and Hamilton. etc. He died in Richmond, Va., in May. 1822. Pioneer; born in Moravia, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1798; moved to Illinois in 1819, and three years later erected the first cabin in the present city of Quincy; was prominent for sixty years in the affairs of that place; member of the State Senate in 1850-54; elected governor of Illinois in 1859. He was made colonel of the 137th Illinois Volunteers in 1864, and prior to that date was quartermastergeneral of h
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worden, John Lorimer 1818-1897 (search)
Washington on the morning of April 7, 1861, by the Secretary of the Navy, to carry orders to Captain Adams, of the Sabine, near Fort Pickens. Warden arrived at Montgomery, Ala., late at night on theom Washington, under orders from the Navy Department, to communicate with the squadron under Captain Adams. Bragg immediately wrote a pass, and, as he handed it to Worden, remarked, I suppose you have despatches for Captain Adams? Worden replied, I have no written ones, but I have a verbal communication to make to him from the Navy Department. In the Wyandotte, a flag-oftruce vessel lying iveyed to the Sabine, arriving there about noon, April 12. His verbal despatch was to direct Captain Adams to reinforce Fort Pickens immediately. It was done that night, just in time to save it fromy accusing Worden of having practised falsehood and deception in gaining permission to visit Captain Adams. This accusation he telegraphed to Montgomery, and recommended Worden's arrest. It was don
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Writs of assistance. (search)
such a system of petty oppression, and there was much excitement. Their legality was questioned before a court held in the old Town Hall in Boston. The advocate for the crown (Mr. Gridley) argued that, as Parliament was the supreme legislature for the whole British realm, and had authorized these writs, no subject had a right to complain. The fiery James Otis answered him with great power and effect. The fire of patriotism glowed in every sentence; and when he uttered the words, To my dying day I will oppose, with all the power and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on one hand and of villany on the other, he gave the keynote to the concerted action of the English-American colonies in opposing the obnoxious acts of the British Parliament. Then, said John Adams, who heard Otis's speech, the independence of the colonies was proclaimed. Very few writs of assistance were issued, and these were rendered ineffectual by the popular opposition. See Otis, James.
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ance, and a republic established in charge of the Directory and Council. The French envoys to America, Genet, Adet, and Fouchet, annoyed Presidents Washington and Adams exceedingly by their arrogance. Then the French Directory authorized French war-vessels to seize American merchantmen and detain them for examination. Fully 1,000 vessels, carrying the United States flag, had been thus stopped in their course when Adams appointed Pinckney, Marshall, and Gerry as a commission to visit France and negotiate a treaty that would save American vessels from further annoyance. The commission was met in France by three unofficial agents, who told the Americans thapoleon, who had assumed the charge of French affairs, pledged his government to receive any minister the United States might send. Without consulting his cabinet, Adams took the responsibility of again sending ambassadors. These men were well received, and orders were at once issued to French cruisers to refrain from molesting ve
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