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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
executive offices to carry on a provisional government, and appointed the first Monday in November as the time for the people to elect all the State officers and a new Assembly. The convention issued an address to the people, in which they set forth the dangers with which the commonwealth was menaced by the acts of the Confederates, and exposed the treasonable acts of the governor and his associates. H. R. Gamble was appointed provisional governor; W. P. Hall, lieutenant-governor; and M. Oliver, secretary of state. On July 31, 1861, Thomas C. Reynolds, lieutenant-governor of Missouri, issued a proclamation at New Madrid, as acting chief-magistrate in the temporary absence, he said, of Governor Jackson, in which he declared the absolute severance of Missouri from the Union. Disregarding forms, he said, and looking to realities, I view any ordinance for the separation from the North and union with the Confederate States as a mere outward ceremony to give notice to others of an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ice-President.] John W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, appointed governor of Kansas, in place of Shannon......July 1, 1856 Committee appointed by the House, March 19, 1856, consisting of John Sherman, of Ohio; William A. Howard, of Michigan, and M. Oliver, of Missouri, to inquire into the Kansas troubles, reports: First, that the election held by the free-State party was not illegal; second, that the elections under the alleged territorial laws were carried by invaders from Missouri; third, thata new census, a stringent election law, impartial judges of election, and United States troops at every polling place; seventh, that the constitution framed by the convention embodies the will of the majority of the people......July 1, 1856 [Mr. Oliver, of Missouri, made a minority report.] Grand jury at Washington indicts Preston S. Brooks for assault and battery upon Charles Sumner, June 22; on trial Brooks admits the facts, and is fined $300......July 8, 1856 Preston S. Brooks challe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
e shores and islands of Narraganset Bay west of Plymouth and south of Massachusetts as far as the Pequod River and country, to be known as the Providence Plantation, the inhabitants to rule themselves as they shall find most suitable......September, 1644 Anabaptists banished from Massachusetts......1644 Free schools established at Roxbury and other towns, to be supported by voluntary allowance or by tax upon such as refuse......1645 Law passed against slave-stealing......1645 Mrs. Oliver, for reproaching the magistrates, is adjudged to be whipped; and a cleft stick placed upon her tongue for speaking ill of the elders......1646 Plymouth and Boston visited by Captain Cromwell, who from a common sailor had come to command three ships, and amassed wealth as a buccaneer, or fighter of the Spaniard ; he spends money freely in both places......1646 John Eliot preaches his first sermon to the Indians near Newtown Corners, afterwards called Nonantum, or place of rejoicing .