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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
occidentalisOregon(See also Tamarac.) Laurel (mountain)Kalmia latifoliaPenn. & southwardHard, red. Turnery. Leopard-wood or Letter-woodPiratinera guianensisCentral AmericaHard; takes a fine polish. Canes, etc. Lignum vitaeGuiacum officinaleW. IndiesHard, Pestles, mortars, turnery, sheaves, bowls, rulers. Name of Tree.BotaniaEast of Miss. RiverTough and durable. Posts, tree-nails, turnery, hubs. LogwoodHacmatoxylon campechianumJamaica, HondurasDyeing. MahoganySuretema mahagoniCentral America, CubaHard. Furniture, cabinet-work, turnery, etc. Mahogany (mountain)Cereocarpus ledifoliusRocky MountainsHard, dark-red. Ornamental. MangroveVariousTropipolish. Tulip-woodHarpulia pendulaAustralia, etcHard. Veneers, cabinet-work, turnery, etc. Turtle-woodSurinamTurnery. Vegetable ivoryPhytelephas macrocarpaCentral America, etcA nut used in turnery. Walnut (black)Juglans nigraEastern U. S.Medium. dark Furniture, ornaments, gun-stocks. Walnut (English）Juglans regiaEurope, etcH
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
. Jones and Carpenter. October 3d proves a lucky date to the writer, who records the receipt then of seventy-two dollars from friend Sanborn. The succeeding day (Sunday) our journalist improves his leisure by perusing speech of Judge Curtis, delivered before the students of Union College, New Jersey, and of Dartmouth College, and at the Normal School Convention, Westfield, Mass., and at Brown University, R. I. ; the entry of the same date continues, Read of the awful disaster to the Central America, formerly the George Law; read answer of the Connecticut men to Buchanan, and had to shed a few tears over it. On Nov. 4, the journalist rose at ten minutes before four o'clock, elate with the remembrance that he is thirty-three years old this day. John Brown reached Tabor on the 7th of August, and Colonel Forbes, two days after him. They were obliged to remain there, inactive, till the 2d of November, in consequence of being out of funds. During this interval of suspense, w
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 17: Colonization (search)
telling them that Congress had given him money with which to found a colony of colored people, and that he had found what seemed to be a suitable location in Central America. He appealed to them to supply the colonists. The negroes, not anxious for exile, diplomatically said they would think the matter over. In the end it was discovered that Central America did not want the negroes, and that the negroes did not want Central America. A story that is curiously illustrative of Mr. Lincoln's attachment to the policy of removing the colored people is told by L. E. Chittenden in his Recollections of President Lincoln. Mr. Chittenden was a citizen of VermontCentral America. A story that is curiously illustrative of Mr. Lincoln's attachment to the policy of removing the colored people is told by L. E. Chittenden in his Recollections of President Lincoln. Mr. Chittenden was a citizen of Vermont and Register of the Treasury under Lincoln, with whom he was in intimate and confidential relations: During one of his welcome visits to my office, says Mr. Chittenden, the President seemed to be buried in thought over some subject of great interest. After long reflection he abruptly exclaimed that he wanted to ask me
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
d of Miss Bradley her experiences as a teacher residence in Charleston, South Carolina two years of illness goes to Costa Rica three years of teaching in Central America return to the United States Becomes corresponding clerk and translator in a large glass manufactory beginning of the war she determines to go as a nurse l manner. In the family of her cousin, Mr. Baxter, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, there had been living, for two years, three Spanish boys from Costa Rica, Central America. Mr. Baxter was an instructor of youth and they were his pupils. About this period their father arrived to fetch home a daughter who was at school in New Younta Arenas, where she opened a school receiving as pupils, English, Spanish, German, and American children. This was the first English school established in Central America. For three months she taught from a blackboard, and at the end of that time received from New York, books, maps, and all the needful apparatus for a permanen
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 8: declaration of principles (search)
t I can prepare for it. Pike, First Blows of the Civil War. In September he wrote for the Tribune: Kansas will soon be either a free or a slave State, and her fate decides that of many which are to come after her. Mexico, Cuba, and Central America proper, the raw material for at least a dozen Skates, are all probably destined to come to us in time. Shall they come to us as free or slave States? This question seems to us by far the most momentous and vital of any now affecting our nad naturally come into the Union as a free State, and would to that extent strengthen the antislavery sentiment. It was correspondingly popular in the North, and unpopular in the South. On the other hand, the annexation of Cuba, Mexico, and Central America, all of which were more or less *gen over to civil distractions, was favored in the South and opposed in the North. It was widely believed that their internal commotions would make their acquisition all the easier, and it came in due time t
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
9, 20, 22-24, 30, 56. Cameron, Simon, 170, 178. Campbell, Lew, 144. Canada, annexation of, 133. Canby, General, 348, 356, 366. Carlisle, 463, 464, 465, 510, 511. Carlyle, 21, 56. Carnot, 66. Caroline, the, 8. Carter, Robert, 172, 173. Cass, Lewis, 125. Cavaignac, General, 64, 66, 67, 72, 74, 75, 86, 87, 89. Cavalry, Bureau, 303, 304, 306, 307; Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, 267; remounts, 258, 307; contracts for, 307-309, 353. Cedar Creek, 346. Central America, 133. Centralization of government, 459. Central Park, 139, 150. Chadwick, George, 195. Champion's Hill, 221, 223, 225. Chandler, William E., 444. Channing, 28, 33, 35. Charleston, 251; on the Hiwassee, 295. Characteristics of Dana, 502, 503, 508-511. Chase, Salmon P., 153, 162, 178, 179, 182, 183, 398. Chattahoochee, 343. Chattanooga, 36, 234, 254, 256, 257, 260, 262, 268, 269, 271, 273, 274, 277, 279, 286, 291, 294, 296, 297, 300, 309, 311, 339, 344; and Atlanta
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 1: (search)
oun's doctrines. nullification a Union-saving measure. its ingenuity and conservatism. Calhoun's profound statesmanship. injustice to his memory. how the South has been injured by false party names There is nothing of political philosophy more plainly taught in history than the limited value of the Federal principle. It had been experimented upon in various ages of the world — in the Amphictyonic Council, in the Achaean league, in the United Provinces of Holland, in Mexico, in Central America, in Columbia, and in the Argentine republic; in all these instances the form of government established upon it had become extinct, or had passed into the alternative of consolidation or anarchy and disintegration. Indeed, it is plain enough that such a form of government is the resource only of small and weak communities; that it is essentially temporary in its nature; and that it has never been adopted by States which had approached a mature condition, and had passed the period of pup
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
men nor nations are exempt. These laws never change; and, thank God, we strike solid bottom when we are dealing with Him! Whatever may have been the pretexts of this Rebellion, every man who is not wilfully blind saw its immediate object in the beginning. But, separation once effected, was not the ultimate design equally clear?— the establishment and consolidation of a colossal meridional empire, stretching from the free States of this Union towards the south, absorbing Mexico and Central America, Cuba, and all the islands of the surrounding archipelago, and appropriating all the South American States east of the Andes? This empire was to rest on African Slavery as its basis, and its wealth and power were to spring from a complete monopoly of cotton, and the principal tropical products of the world. Nor would the ultimate achievement have been beyond the regions of probability, had the leaders been allowed to break away from their allegiance and go in peace. They contem
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvi. (search)
men nor nations are exempt. These laws never change; and, thank God, we strike solid bottom when we are dealing with Him! Whatever may have been the pretexts of this Rebellion, every man who is not wilfully blind saw its immediate object in the beginning. But, separation once effected, was not the ultimate design equally clear?— the establishment and consolidation of a colossal meridional empire, stretching from the free States of this Union towards the south, absorbing Mexico and Central America, Cuba, and all the islands of the surrounding archipelago, and appropriating all the South American States east of the Andes? This empire was to rest on African Slavery as its basis, and its wealth and power were to spring from a complete monopoly of cotton, and the principal tropical products of the world. Nor would the ultimate achievement have been beyond the regions of probability, had the leaders been allowed to break away from their allegiance and go in peace. They contem
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 19 (search)
marble? Where Macgregor sits is the head of the table. Active brains, free lips, and cunning hands make empires. Paper capitals are vain. Of course, we must assume a right to buy out Maryland and Delaware. Then, by running our line at the Potomac, we close the irrepressible conflict, and have homogeneous institutions. Then we part friends. The Union thus ended, the South no longer hates the North. Cuba she cannot have. France, England, and ourselves forbid. If she spread over Central America, that will bring no cause of war to a Northern confederacy. We are no filibusters. Her nearness to us there cannot harm us. Let Kansas witness that while Union fettered her, and our national banner clung to the flagstaff heavy with blood, we still made good George Canning's boast, Where that banner is planted, foreign dominion shall not come. With a government heartily on his side, and that flag floating in the blessings of twenty million of freemen, the loneliest settler in the sha
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