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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 109 3 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. 52 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 42 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 26 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 16 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 8 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 7 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), American party, (search)
eference to the party. It was at first a secret political organization, the chief object of which was the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws of the United States, and the exclusive choice of Americans for office. The more radical members of the party advocated a purely American school system, and uncomlpromising opposition to the Roman Catholics. Such narrow views were incompatible with the generosity and catholic spirit of enlightened American citizens. In 1856 they nominated ex-President Fillmore for the Presidency, who received 874,534 popular and eight electoral votes; made no nominations in 1860, but united with the Constitutional Union party, whose candidates. Bell and Everett, received 590,631 popular and thirty-nine electoral votes; reappeared with a ticket in 1880, which received 707 popular votes; and again in 1888, when 1,591 votes were cast for the party candidates in California; and have made no nominations since. See know-Nothings.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Buchanan, James, (search)
osing the Wilmot proviso (q. v.), and the anti-slavery movements generally. In 1853 President Pierce sent him as United States minister to England, where he remained until 1856), during which time he became a party in the conference of United States ministers at Ostend, and was a signer of the famous manifesto, or consular letter (see Ostend manifesto). In the fall of 1856 he was elected President of the United States, receiving 174 electoral votes to 129 given for Fremont (Republican) and Fillmore (American). A chief topic of President Buchanan's inaugural address was the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (not. promulgated until two days afterwards) in the Dred Scott case (q. v.), and its effects. He spoke of that decision, which virtually declared the institution of slavery to be a national one, and that the black man had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and said it would speedily and finally settle the slavery question. He announced his int
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corwin, Thomas 1794-1865 (search)
Corwin, Thomas 1794-1865 Statesman; born in Bourbon county, Ky., July 29, 1794; reared to manhood on a farm, attending a common school in winter; began the study of law in 1815; admitted to the bar in 1818; became a member of the Ohio legislature in 1822, and was elected to Congress in 1830. He remained in the Thomas Corwin. House until elected governor of Ohio in 1840. In 1845 he was chosen United States Senator, and was called to the cabinet of President Fillmore in 1850, as Secretary of the Treasury. He was again elected to Congress in 1859. In 1861 President Lincoln sent him as minister to Mexico. Mr. Corwin was an eloquent, witty, and effective speaker. He died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 18, 1865. The War with Mexico. The action of Congress upon the subject of the Mexican War, in the winter of 1846-47, gave rise to a question in which an important principle was involved. Is it the duty of the legislature to provide the means of prosecuting a war made unconsti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crittenden, John Jordon 1787- (search)
in Woodford county, Ky., Sept. 10, 1787; was aide-de-camp to Governor Shelby at the battle of the Thames; became a lawyer; entered the Kentucky legislature in 1816, and was speaker several years, and was first a member of the United States Senate in 1817-19. From 1835 to 1841 he was again in the Senate, when President Harrison called him to his cabinet as Attorney-General. He was again in the Senate from 1842 to 1848, when he was elected governor of his State, which post he held when President Fillmore appointed him Attorney-General in 1850. Mr. Crittenden was one of the most useful and trustworthy of the members of the national legislature, and was regarded as the patriarch of the Senate. In the session of 1860-61 he introduced the Crittenden compromise, which substantially proposed: 1. To re-establish the line fixed in the Missouri compromise (q. v.) as the boundary-line between free and slave territory; that Congress should by statute law protect slave property from interferen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 1800-1871 (search)
Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 1800-1871 Statesman; born in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 25, 1800; graduated at West Point in 1820; resigned from the army in 1822; appointed minister to the republic of Texas in 1844; minister to Prussia in 1846; and to the Federal Government of Germany in 1848. He abandoned the Democratic party, joined the American party, and was its candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with Millard Fillmore in 1856. He died in Memphis, Tenn., June 26, 1871.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Filibuster, (search)
n-Spanish War quite a number of filibustering expeditions were fitted out in the United States for the purpose of operating on Cuba. The United States government invariably issued official warning against such hostile actions against Spain, and in a majority of cases intercepted or otherwise prevented the landing of the parties. The most notable of these actions was that of a party which left in the Cuban warship Virginius, Oct. 8, 1873, for Cuba. The vessel, under command of Capt. James Fry, was captured by a Spanish war steamer on the 31st, and the officers and 175 volunteers were taken to Santiago, where in the following month Captain Fry and 109 of his associates were shot for piracy. Through the action of the United States government in organizing a strong naval force Spain agreed to surrender the Virginius and the remainder of her crew. This was done Dec. 16, and while the Virginius was being convoyed to New York it mysteriously sunk off North Carolina. Fillmore, Millard
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fillmore, Millard 1800- (search)
Fillmore, Millard 1800- Thirteenth President of the United States; born in Locke (now Summerhill), Cayuga to that of the Fillmores being 4 miles distant. Mr. Fillmore's early education was limited, and at the age ofuccessive terms, retiring in the spring of 1831. Mr. Fillmore was particularly active in procuring the passage the interstate slavetrade. In September, 1844, Mr. Fillmore was nominated by the Whigs for governor of the Sdate. Elected comptroller of his State in 1847, Mr. Fillmore filled that responsible office with rare ability and on the death of the President (July, 1850), Mr. Fillmore was inducted into that high office. During hiher measures of great public interest occurred. Mr. Fillmore retired from office March 4, 1853, leaving the cxas boundary controversy. On Aug. 6, 1850, President Fillmore transmitted the following special message to will, an increased attachment to the Union, and the general satisfaction of the country. Millard Fillmore.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fugitive slave laws. (search)
ts Northern supporters seem to have been alarmed bv thunders of indignation from their constituents, and when it reached the House it was laid on the table, and was there allowed to die. One of the acts contemplated by Mr. Clay's omnibus bill (q. v.) was for the rendition of fugitive slaves to their owners, under the provision of clause 3, section 2, article 4, of the national Constitution. In September, 1850, a bill to that effect was passed, and became a law by the signature of President Fillmore. The bill was drawn up by Senator James M. Mason, of Virginia, and in some of its features was made very offensive to the sentiments and feelings of the people of the free-labor States. It provided that the master of a fugitive slave, or his agent, might go into any State or Territory of the republic, and, with or without legal warrant there obtained, seize such fugitive, and take him forthwith before any judge or commissioner, whose duty it should be to hear and determine the case.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Goodrich, Samuel Griswold 1793-1860 (search)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold 1793-1860 Author; popularly known as Peter parley ; born in Ridgefield, Conn., Aug. 19, 1793; was a publisher in Hartford in 1824; soon afterwards he settled in Boston, and for many years edited The token. He began the issuing of Peter parley's tales in 1827, and continued them until 1857. He also published geographical and historical school-books. From 1841 to 1854 he edited and published Merry's Museum and Parley's magazine. Of 170 volumes written by him, 116 bear the name of Peter parley ; and more than 7,000,000 copies of his books for the young have been sold. Mr. Goodrich was American consul at Paris during Fillmore's administration. He died in New York City, May 9, 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, Nathan Kelsey 1810-1874 (search)
Hall, Nathan Kelsey 1810-1874 Statesman; born in Marcellus, N. Y., March 10, 1810; admitted to the bar in 1832; appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1841; elected to the Assembly in 1845; to Congress in 1847. President Fillmore appointed him Postmaster-General in 1850 and United States district judge in 1852. He died in Buffalo, N. Y., March 2, 1874.
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