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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The Purtian principle and John Brown (1859 ). (search)
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Horace Bishor, one of the patriots of the revolution, died in Michigan last week, in the 100th year of his age. He served four years in the revolutionary war, and was one of the guard who stood sentry over Major Andre at the time of his execution.
Something New in History.
A Mr. Massey, it seems, an Englishman, is publishing in London a history of England.--He has gotten down as low as 1793, the last volume including all the events between 1780 and that year.
The Westminster Review, speaking of this last volume, says:
"Opening with an account of the military operations in the Carolinas, of the treason of Arnold, and the execution of the compromised though gallant and patriotic Andre, the historian relates the retirement of Lord Cornwallis into Virginia, his occupation of Yorktown and Gloucester, his frequent repulses of the enemy, and finally, after vainly awaiting the arrival of Sir Henry Clinton, his capitulation to General Washington. This capitulation was the turning point of the American war. A year after the surrender at Yorktown the preliminaries of peace were signed.
The treaty concluded, not without some sharp practice on the part of the American Commissioners, between Great Britain and the United States,