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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 311 5 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 100 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 94 8 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 74 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 68 0 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. 54 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 44 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 44 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 41 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 38 6 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for John Adams or search for John Adams in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
The star spangled banner continues to wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. In every foreign war and in conflicts with the Indians, our government has been victorious. The first domestic or internal trouble encountered was under Washington's administration in 1792, and is known in history as The Whiskey Insurrection, in Pennsylvania, which was quelled without bloodshed upon the proper display of authority and determination by the Chief executive. In 1797, when John Adams was President, the famous retaliatory measures known as the Alien and Sedition Acts, were passed, resulting in great distress and discontent, and the country was brought to the verge of civil war, but this crucial test was passed in safety. The next trouble, during Mr. Jefferson's term, was a threat by the New England States to withdraw from the Union on account of the Embargo Act. This measure was repealed by Congress and the malcontents became reconciled. Again, in 1832, the Nullif
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), New England forced slavery. (search)
f-government. This treason against human hope will signalize their epoch in future history. To LaFayette he wrote: It is not a moral question, but one merely of power * * * to raise a geographical principle for the choice of a president. To Mr. Holmes (then of Massachusetts), he wrote these prophetic words: A geographical line conciding with a marked principle, moral or political, will never be obliterated, and every new irratation will mark it deeper and deeper. Thank God, he wrote to John Adams, I shall not live to witness its issue. His race was run. Not for himself, but for his country, was his warning. It may be that in his far famed Declaration there is glittering generality. It may be all that gltters is not gold. But no false philosophy lurks in this brief chronicle. It is the aged wisdom of one who from youth to hoary age was freedom's friend. It is his last word and testament. Every new irritation reveals new depths to it. It is that dying declaration, when the eye
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
The fabalist Aesop——whose sententious wisdom outweighs whole volumes vast called history just because the so-called fable condenses into single instances the experience of all. so as to be co-operant with all—tells of two men, let us call them and B, to whom Jupiter agreed to grant whatever wish they might prefer, on the following terms: A was to have first wish, and whatever A received was to be doubled to B. A promptly wished for the loss of one eye. Are our slaves, wrote Jefferson to John Adams, to be presented with freedom and a dagger? The so-called freedom had been bestowed and the dagger had not been drawn. The real reason. D. H. Chamberlin, once reconstruction governor of South Carolina, could speak with authority. Under all the avowed motives for this policy, he wrote (in the Atlantic Monthly of April, 1900), lay a deeper cause than all others, the will and determination to secure party ascendancy and control at the South and in the nation by the negro vote. * * * N<