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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bayard, James Ashton, 1767- (search)
ederal party. In 1804 he was elected to the United States Senate, in which he distinguished himself in conducting the impeachment of Senator Blount. He was chiefly instrumental in securing the election of Jefferson over Burr in 1800; and made, in the House of Representatives, in 1802, a powerful defence of the existing judiciary system, which was soon overthrown. He was in the Senate when war was declared against Great Britain in 1812. In May, 1813, he left the United States on a mission to St. Petersburg, to treat for peace with Great James Ashton Bayard. Britain under Russian mediation. The mission was fruitless. In January, 1814, he went to Holland, and thence to England. At Ghent, during that year, he, with J. Q. Adams, Clay, Gallatin, and Russell, negotiated a treaty of peace with England. He was preparing to go to England as a commissioner under the treaty, when an alarming illness seized him, and He returned home early in 1815. He died soon after his arrival, Aug. 6.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Single tax, (search)
Single tax, The doctrine taught by-the late Henry George (q. v. ) in Progress and poverty. For lack of a better name, Mr. George's doctrines have been called single-tax doctrines, and his adherents single-taxers. It is claimed, however, that these terms only measurably and briefly describe the reforms proposed. The following exposition of the doctrine was prepared by Hamlin Russell, of Newark, N. J., who for many years was associated with Mr. George: Progress and poverty, the work upon which Mr. George's fame as a writer and thinker must ever rest, was written between August, 1877, and March, 1879. The book is an elaboration of a previous pamphlet entitled Our land and land policy, published in San Francisco in 1871. It consists of a careful examination in which the author endeavors to seek the law which associates poverty with progress and increases want with advancing wealth. As a preliminary to this search he first endeavors to establish the proposition that povert
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, John 1579-1632 (search)
e with Newport in 1608, but they were chiefly idle and dissolute men, sent thither to escape ill destinies at home. Some shining yellow deposits from a stream issuing from a bank of sand were discovered, and, with the belief that the stream flowed from a mine of gold, they sought the precious metal with avidity instead of tilling the ground for food. Smith implored them in vain to plant and sow; and in the early summer, disgusted with their fatal folly, he left them, and with his friend Dr. Russell and a few of the more sensible men he explored the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, Chesapeake Bay and its estuaries and tributaries, and the Patapsco to the site of Baltimore. He went up the Susquehanna, probably a few miles above its mouth, where he heard of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy in the present State of New York. These explorations were made in two different voyages in the space of three months. He travelled in his boat about 3,000 miles, made friends of powerful chiefs