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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 185 185 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 37 37 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 33 33 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 19 19 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 12 12 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 11 11 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 10 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 8 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.) 8 8 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 8 8 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for 1798 AD or search for 1798 AD in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Shall Cromwell have a statue? (search)
nied by practical difficulty. And, after all is said and done, the legality of secession is somewhat of a metaphysical abstraction so long as the right of revolution is inalienable. As matter of fact it was to might and revolution the South appealed in 1861; and it was to coercion the government of Union had recourse. So with his supreme good sense and that political insight at once instinctive and unerring, in respect to which he stands almost alone, Washington foresaw this alternative in 1798. Washington seems, indeed, to have foreseen it from the commencement. Hardly was the independence of the country achieved before he began to direct his efforts toward the creation of a nation, with a central power adequate to a coercive policy if called for by the occasion. Thus, in March, 1783, he wrote to Nathaniel Greene (Ford, Writings of Washington, Vol. X, p. 203, note): It remains only for the States to be wise, and to establish their independence on the basis of an inviolable
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
., ruthlessness of, 283, 297. Iron-clad—The first, the Manassas, exploits of, 196. Jackson, General T. J Wounding of 110; mentioned, 111; at Winchester, in May, 1862, 226. Jones Lieutenant Iredell, 138. Jones. D. D., Rev. J. W., 79. Johnson, General B. T., 215, 267, 305; General Edward, 287. Johnson's Island, graves at 268. Johnston's Last Volley at Durham, N. C., 174. Keith, Judge, James, 144. Kemper, General J. L., sketch of, portrait of, 260. Kentucky Resolutions, 1798-9,9. LaBorde. History of S. C. College, 141. Lamar, C. A. C., 856; L. Q. C., 366. Lane, General J. H., 112. Lee, and Virginia, 15: Captain R. E., 217; General R. E., statue of 3, 123; cited, 21, 26; Confederate orders of, 81, 122; Wormsley's lines on, 101; tributes to, 121. 332. Leopard, The, and the Chesaneake, 25. Letcher, Gov., John, house of burned, 219, 297. Lewis, M. D., Samuel E., 226. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, 85; tribute to, 121; did not advise payme