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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
records......Jan. 16, 1837 Coinage of the United States again changed......Jan. 18, 1837 Michigan admitted into the Union, the twenty-sixth State in order......Jan. 26, 1837 Electoral vote counted......Feb. 8, 1837 Twenty-fourth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1837 Thirteenth administration—Democratic, March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841. Martin Van Buren, New York, President. Richard M. Johnson, Kentucky, Vice-President. Great commercial panic begins by the failure of Herman Briggs & Co., New Orleans, La.......March, 1837 [This panic reached its height in May.] All the banks in New York City suspend specie payment......May 10, 1837 [Banks in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore followed.] An extra session of Congress called to meet first Monday in September......May 15, 1837 Twenty-fifth Congress, first session (extra), assembles......Sept. 4, 1837 President's message advocates the subtreasury. First sub-treasury bill reported in the Senate......S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
al rule forbidding the buying and selling of men, women, and children, with an intent to enslave them ......Oct. 18, 1858 Death at Shippingport of James D. Porter, the Kentucky giant; height, 7 feet 9 inches......April 24, 1859 Joseph Holt, of Louisville, appointed Postmaster-General......1859 Destruction by a mob of the True South, an abolition paper published at Newport......Oct. 28-29, 1859 Legislature adopts the boundary-line between Kentucky and Tennessee surveyed by Cox and Briggs, commissioners appointed in 1859......Feb. 28, 1860 Governor Magoffin, by circular, submits to the governors of slave States six propositions, among them: To amend the United States Constitution to forbid nullifying the fugitive slave-law. That all Territories north of 37° shall come in as free States, all south as slave States. To guarantee free navigation of the Mississippi forever to all States. To give the South protection in the United States Senate from unconstitutional or oppres