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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 16 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States (search)
782 he succeeded in having the subject brought before the legislature of New York, then in session at Poughkeepsie, and that body, by a resolution drawn by Hamilton and presented by his father-in-law, General Schuyler, recommended (July 21, 1782) the assembling of a national convention to revise the Articles, reserving the right of the respective legislatures to ratify their determinations. In the spring of 1783 Hamilton, in Congress, expressed an earnest desire for such a convention. Pelatiah Webster and Thomas Paine wrote in favor of it the same year, and in 1784 Noah Webster wrote a pamphlet on the subject which he carried in person to General Washington. In that pamphlet Webster proposed a new system of government which should act, not on the States, but directly on individuals, and vest in Congress full power to carry its laws into effect. The plan deeply impressed the mind of Washington. Events in North Carolina and Massachusetts made many leading men anxious about the fu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster, Pelatiah 1725-1795 (search)
Webster, Pelatiah 1725-1795 Political economist; born in Lebanon, Conn., in 1725; graduated at Yale College in 1746; took a course in theology, and was pastor in Greenwich, Mass., in 1748-49; removed to Philadelphia, where he engaged in business. During the Revolutionary War he was a stanch patriot; was made a prisoner by the British in 1788; confined in the city jail for 132 days; and had a part of his property confiscated. He was the author of Essays on free-trade and finance; Dissertation on the political Union and Constitution of the thirteen United States of North America; Reasons for repealing the act of the legislature which took away the charter of the Bank of North America; and Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects, published during the American War. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in September, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodbury, Daniel Phineas 1812- (search)
Woodbury, Daniel Phineas 1812- Military officer; born in New London, N. H., Dec. 16, 1812; graduated at the United States Military Academy and commissioned second lieutenant of artillery in 1836; later transferred to the engineer corps; promoted captain in 1853 and major in 1861. He served in the Civil War in the defence of the national capital and in the engineering work of the Army of the Potomac; and later was superintendent of the engineering operations against Yorktown and Richmond. He received the brevet of brigadier-general for gallantry in the battle of Fredericksburg, for throwing Frontispiece to Webster's spelling-book. bridges across the Rappahannock in face of the enemy. He was made commandant at Key West, Fla., in 1863, where he died of yellow fever in 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wood-engraving. (search)
ngravings to be used typographically were cut on typemetal, and were very rude. As a specimen of the state of the art in the United States when Anderson introduced wood, a facsimile is here given of the frontispiece to the fourteenth edition of Webster's Spelling-book, issued in 1791. It is a portrait of Washington, then President of the United States. This was executed on type-metal. When Anderson's more beautiful works on wood appeared, he was employed by Webster's publishers to make nehe state of the art in the United States when Anderson introduced wood, a facsimile is here given of the frontispiece to the fourteenth edition of Webster's Spelling-book, issued in 1791. It is a portrait of Washington, then President of the United States. This was executed on type-metal. When Anderson's more beautiful works on wood appeared, he was employed by Webster's publishers to make new designs and engravings for the Spelling-book, and the designs then made were used for many years.