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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Introduction. (search)
mmittees in Virginia and Kentucky. In the Legislature of Virginia, an elaborate report was made by Mr. Madison, explaining and defending the resolutions; in Kentucky another resolve reaffirming those of the preceding year was drafted by Mr. Wilson Cary Nicholas, not by Mr. Jefferson, as stated by General McDuffie. Our respect for the distinguished men who took the lead on this occasion, then ardently engaged in the warfare of politics, must not make us fear to tell the truth, that the simple ofor preventing the progress of the evil. Such, in brief, was the main purport of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. The sort of interposition intended was left in studied obscurity. Not a word was dropped of secession from the Union. Mr. Nicholas's resolution in 1799 hinted at nullification as the appropriate remedy for an unconstitutional law, but what was meant by the ill-sounding word was not explained. The words null, void, and of no effect, contained in the original draft of the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Index. (search)
officers, Doc. 337; Fourth Regiment, officers, Doc. 337; Fifth Regiment, D. 67, 77; Doc. 271; Sixth Regiment, D. 102; Doc. 866; Seventh Regiment, D. 78; Doc. 273; Eighth Regiment, officers of, Doc. 296; Ninth Regiment, D. 93; Doc. 839; Tenth Regiment, D. 92, 95; Fourteenth Regiment of, at New York, D. 108; Doc. 413 officers of the, Doc. 415; Eighteenth Regiment, D. 108; Twentieth Regiment, D. 82, 102; Doc. 366; Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves, D. 50 departure of, from N. Y., Doc. 165 Nicholas, Wilson Cary, Int. 19 Nicholson, —, Judge, speech at Louisville, Ky., D. 32 Nina, guard-boat, D. 6 Norfolk, Va., secession meeting at, D. 4; secessionists at, threaten the frigate Brooklyn, D. 9; movements of secessionists at, D. 10; harbor of, obstructed, D. 29; defences in the harbor of, D. 62 North, the Union feeling of the, January 2, P. 9; the predicted sufferings of the, P. 9; the fighting resources of the, P. 58; subscriptions to the war in the, P. 59; the soliders of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Breckenridge, John, 1760-1806 (search)
Breckenridge, John, 1760-1806 Statesman; born in Augusta county. Va., Dec. 2, 1760; was admitted to the bar in 1785; elected to Congress in 1793 but did not accept, having determined to remove to Kentucky, where he settled near Lexington. He was appointed attorney-general of Kentucky in 1795. In 1798 he met Jefferson and Nicholas at Monticello and prepared the famous Kentucky resolutions of 1798, of which Jefferson claimed the authorship. In 1801 he was elected to the United States Senate, and resigned in 1805 to become Attorney-General under President Jefferson, which office he filled about four months. He died in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 14, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Easton, John, (search)
Easton, John, Colonial governor; son of Nicholas; was governor of Rhode Island in 1690-95. He was the author of a Narrative of the causes which led to Philip's Indian War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nicholas, Wilson Cary 1757-1820 (search)
Nicholas, Wilson Cary 1757-1820 Legislator; born in Hanover, Va., about 1757; son of Robert Carter Nicholas; was educated at the College of William and Mary; served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, and was commander of Washington's Lifeguard at the time of its disbandment in 1783. He was United States Senator in 1799-1804; member of Congress in 1807; collector of the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1804-7; and governor of Virginia in 1814-17. He died in Milton, Va., Oct. 10, 1820.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Resolutions of 1798. (search)
n Taylor, of Caroline, a Virginia statesman, who boldly put forth his advanced views. Mr. Jefferson finally sympathized with him, and at a conference held at Monticello, towards the close of October, 1798, between the latter and George and Wilson C. Nicholas, they determined to engage Kentucky to join Virginia in an energetic protestation against the constitutionality of those laws. Mr. Jefferson was urged to sketch resolutions accordingly, which W. C. Nicholas, then a resident of Kentucky, agW. C. Nicholas, then a resident of Kentucky, agreed to present to the legislature. Having obtained the solemn assurance of the Nicholas brothers that it should not be known from whence the resolutions came, Jefferson drafted them. The first declared that the national Constitution is a compact between the States, as States, by which is created a general government for special purposes, each State reserving to itself the residuary mass of power and right, and that, as in other cases of compact between parties having no common judge, each p
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
John Page1802 to 1805 William H. Cabell1805 to 1808 John Tyler1808 to 1811 James Monroe1811 George W. Smith1811 to 1812 Governors under the Continental Congress and the Constitution—Continued. Name.Term. James Barbour1812 to 1814 Wilson C. Nicholas1814 to 1816 James P. Preston1816 to 1819 Thomas M. Randolph1819 to 1822 James Pleasants1822 to 1825 John Tyler1825 to 1826 William B. Giles1826 to 1829 John Floyd1829 to 1833 Littleton W. Tazewell1833 to 1836 Wyndham Robertson1836 thard Henry Lee1st to 2d1789 to 1792 William Grayson1st1789 to 1790 John Walker1st1790 James Monroe1st to 4th1790 to 1795 John Taylor2d to 3d1792 to 1794 Henry Tazewell3d to 5th1794 to 1799 Stevens Thomson Mason4th to 8th1795 to 1803 Wilson Cary Nicholas6th to 8th1800 to 1804 Andrew Moore8th to 11th1804 to 1809 William B. Giles8th to 14th1814 to 1815 John Taylor8th1808 Abraham B. Venable8th1803 to 1804 Richard Brent11th to 13th1809 to 1814 James Barbour13th to 19th1815 to 1825 Armis
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The secession question to be Tested in Court. (search)
its history are at this time interesting. The correspondence between Col. Ellis and Mr. E. de Bellot des Minieres brings to light much information on the subject.--The "old" James River Company was organized on the 21st of August, 1785. The Presidents, successively, were — George Washington, from the 21st August, 1785, to the 5th October, 1795; William Foushee, from the 5th October, 1795, to the 20th January, 1818; John G. Gamble, from the 21st January, 1818, to the 22d March, 1819; Wilson Cary Nicholas, from the 22d March, 1819, to the 20th February, 1820. On the 17th February, 1820, the Legislature passed an act entitled, "An act to amend the act entitled an act for clearing and improving the navigation of James River, and for uniting the Eastern and Western waters by the James and Kanawha Rivers." The provisions of this act were made subject to the ratification of the James River Company, which having been duly given, the act was thereafter to be considered a compact between