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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Motley, John Lothrop 1814- (search)
Motley, John Lothrop 1814- Historian and diplomatist; born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814; graduated at Harvard University in 1831, and afterwards spent a year at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin; travelled in Italy, and, returning, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He wrote two historical novels— John Lothrop Motley. Master's hope (1839) and Merry Mount (1849). In 1840 he was secretary to the American legation in Russia; in 1861-67 minister to Austria; and in 1869-70 minister to Great Britain. He became interested in the history of Holland, and embarked for Europe in 1851 to gather materials for his great work, The history of the rise of the Dutch republic, which was published in London and New York in 1856. In 1861 he published The United Netherlands (2 volumes, enlarged to 4 volumes in 1867). This work was followed, in 1874, by The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland, with a view of the Primary causes of the thirty year
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus 1782-1844 (search)
Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus 1782-1844 Clergyman; born in Lancaster, Pa., May 13, 1782; was pastor of a Lutheran church at Reading in 1802-28, when, on account of failing health, he left the ministry. He was member of Congress from 1829 to 1838; an unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for governor in 1835, and minister to Austria from 1838 to 1840. He died in Reading, Pa., Aug. 11, 1844.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Naturalization. (search)
risoner was placed in the custody of the French consul to await the action of the respective governments. Ingraham's conduct was applauded by his countrymen, and Congress voted him a sword. This protection of an humble adopted citizen of the United States in a foreign land increased the respect for our government and flag abroad. The pride of the Austrian government was severely wounded. It issued a protest against the proceedings of Ingraham and sent it to all the European courts. The Austrian minister at Washington demanded an apology, or other redress, from the United States government, and threatened it with the displeasure of his royal master. No serious difficulty ensued. Koszta soon returned to the United States. Laws of the United States. The conditions and the manner in which an alien may be admitted as a citizen of the United States are prescribed by sections 2,165-74 of the revised statutes. Declaration of intention. An alien seeking naturalization must de
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Neutral powers. (search)
Neutral powers. By the treaty of Paris between Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Turkey, and Sardinia, April 16, 1856, privateering was abolished; neutrals might carry an enemy's goods not contraband of war; neutral goods not contraband were free even under an enemy's flag; and blockades to be binding must be effective. The United States acceded to these provisions in 1861. See international law.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Orth, Godlove Stoner 1817-1882 (search)
Orth, Godlove Stoner 1817-1882 Statesman; born in Lebanon, Pa, April 22, 1817; admitted to the bar in 1839, practising in Indiana. He was elected State Senator in 1842; member of Congress in 1863, serving till 1871; re-elected to Congress in 1873. He favored the annexation of Santo Domingo in 1868; and was the author of the Orth bill which regulated the United States diplomatic and consular system. In 1875 he was appointed minister to Austria. He died in Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 16, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker, Theodore 1810- (search)
is and Hallett and Loring. Then the preamble to our Constitution might read to establish justice, insure domestic strife, hinder the common defence, disturb the general welfare, and inflict the curse of bondage on ourselves and our posterity. Then we shall honor the Puritans no more, but their prelatical tormentors, nor reverence the great reformers, only the inquisitors of Rome. Yea, we may tear the name of Jesus out of the American Bible; yes, God's name. . . . See the steady triumph of despotism! Ten years more like the ten years past, and it will be all over with the liberties of America. Everything must go down, and the heel of the tyrant will be on our neck. It will be all over with the rights of man in America, and you and I must go to Austria, to Italy, or to Siberia for our freedom; or perish with the liberty which our fathers fought for and secured to themselves—not to their faithless sons! Shall America thus miserably perish? Such is the aspect of things to-da
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peace conference, universal (search)
s of war elaborated in 1874 by the conference of Brussels, which has remained unratified to the present day. 8. To accept in principle the employment of good offices, of mediation and facultative arbitration in cases lending themselves thereto, with the object of preventing armed conflicts between nations; to come to an understanding with respect to the mode of applying these good offices, and to establish a uniform practice in using them. The following governments were represented: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States of America. The United States were represented by the lion. Andrew D. White, ambassador to Berlin; the Hon. Seth Low, president of Columbia University; the Hon. Stanford Newel, minister to The Hague; Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, U.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phelps, William Walter 1839-1894 (search)
Phelps, William Walter 1839-1894 Diplomatist; born in New York City, Aug. 24, 1839; graduated at Yale in 1860; elected to Congress in 1872; appointed United States minister to Austria in 1881; re-elected to Congress in 1882. In the same year he was appointed a commissioner of the United States to the international conference on Samoa in Berlin, and also appointed minister to Germany, retiring in 1893 and being appointed a judge of the court of errors and appeals of New Jersey. He died in Teaneck, N. J., June 17, 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 (search)
all and Toombs in every cross-road bar-room at the South. For, you see, never till now did anybody but a few abolitionists believe that this nation could be marshalled, one section against the other, in arms. But the secret is out. The weak point is discovered, Why does the London press lecture us like a school-master his seven-year-old boy? Why does England use a tone such as she has not used for half a century to any power? Because she knows us as she knows Mexico, as all Europe knows Austria—that we have the cancer concealed in our very vitals. Slavery, left where it is, after having created such a war as this, would leave our commerce and all our foreign relations at the mercy of any Keitt, Wigfall, Wise, or Toombs. Any demagogue has only to stir up a pro-slavery crusade, point back to the safe experiments of 1861; and lash the passions of the aristocrat, to cover the sea with privateers, put in jeopardy the trade of twenty States, plunge the country into millions of debt,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pupin, Michael Idvorsky 1858- (search)
Pupin, Michael Idvorsky 1858- Inventor; born in Austria, in 1858; came to New York when fifteen years old; graduated at Columbia University in 1883; studied at Cambridge University, England, and at the University of Berlin; became instructor of Mathematical Physics in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia in 1889. It was announced in 1900 that he had discovered a method by which ocean telephony could be made possible, and that he had received about $400,000 for it besides an annuity of nearly $15,000 while the patent should last.
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