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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, chapter 14 (search)
fact, that General Harrison, a man who had done something, was pitted against Martin Van Buren, a man who had pulled wires. The hero of Tippecanoe and the farmer of North Bend, against the wily diplomatist who partook of sustenance by the aid of gold spoons. The Log-Cabin against the White House. Great have been the triumphs of wire-pulling in this and other countries; and yet it is an unsafe thing to engage in. As bluff King Hal melted away, with one fiery glance, all the greatness of Wolsey; as the elephant, with a tap of his trunk, knocks the breath out of the little tyrant whom he had been long accustomed implicitly to obey,—so do the People, in some quite unexpected moment, blow away, with one breath, the elaborate and deep-laid schemes of the republican wire-puller; and him They have done it, O wire-puller! and will do it again. Who can have forgotten that campaign of 1840? The mass meetings, the log-cabin raisings, the hard cider drinking, the song singing, the Tippec
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
the young king promoted a voyage of discovery, but it tooke no full effect. To avoid interference with Spain, Robert Thorne, of Bristol, who had long resided in Seville, proposed voyages to the east by way of the north; believing that there would be found an open sea near the pole, over which, during the arctic continuous day, Englishmen might reach the land of spices without travelling half so far as by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1527 an expedition, favored by Henry VIII. and Wolsey, sailed from Plymouth for the discovery of the northwest passage. But the larger ship was lost in July among icebergs in a great storm; in August, accounts of the disaster were forwarded to the king and to the cardinal from the haven of St. John, in Newfoundland. The fisheries of that region were already frequented not by the English only, but also by Normans, Biscayans, and Bretons. The repudiation of Catharine of Aragon by Henry VIII. sundered his political connection with Spain, whi
The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n Navy-Yard, and all public property at that place and Pensacola that could not be moved, was successfully carried into execution, and the roughly executed at the Yard and Pensacola. About 11½ o'clock the signal being given be Brig. Gen. Thomas Jones, in an instant the touch was applied at every point, and in a few minutes the wood work, gun — carriages, etc, in Forts Barrancas and Mekae and the Hospitals, together with all the other buildings in the Navy-Yard proper, in the vorlages of Wolsey and Warrington, were in flames. At the same instant the torch was applied to the oil factory and all the Government buildings in the city of Pensacola, also to the steamers at the wharf. The scene was grand, thrilling, and sublime. The whole boy was as light as mid-day, while the murky clouds overhead reflected back an apparently liquid sea of fire. Fort Pickens could be plainly seen, and its garrison seemed to have suddenly aroused, astounded and surprised.-- in a short while, however,