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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
407, II. 181; Countess of, I. 407, II. 181, 384. Morley, Second Earl of, 11. 366, 372; Countess of, 372. Morley, Third Earl of, II. 482. Mornington, Countess of, 1. 295, 296. Morpeth, Viscount, II. 197. See Carlisle, Earl of. Morris, Gouverneur, I. 256. Morris, Rev. Mr., II. 396. Morrow, Governor, I. 372. Mortemart, Viscomnte and Viscomtesse de, II 61, 66. Mos, Marquesa de, I. 207. Motley, J. Lothrop, letter from, II. 256. Muhlenburg, Dr , I. 111. Mulgrave, CountessMorris, Rev. Mr., II. 396. Morrow, Governor, I. 372. Mortemart, Viscomnte and Viscomtesse de, II 61, 66. Mos, Marquesa de, I. 207. Motley, J. Lothrop, letter from, II. 256. Muhlenburg, Dr , I. 111. Mulgrave, Countess, II. 179. Mulgrave, Earl of, I. 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 435, 437, 438. Muller, Johann, I. 115. Muller, Johann, II. 412. Munchhausen, Baron, I. 501. Munich, visits, II. 34, 99. Munster, Count, I. 77, 78. Murchison, (Sir) Roderick, I. 419, 421, II. 155, 176, 179, 371 Mure, Colonel, William, II. 70, 77, 80. Murray, J. A., I. 277, 408. Murray, John, II 147, 255. Murray, John, senior, I. 58, 60, 62, 68, 294. Murray, Mr., II. 149. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambrid
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some great constitutional questions. (search)
, and uses of a fort. The States are beautiful structures on the broad beach—the Union a surrounding dyke to fence out the flood. [Fisher Ames.] The Constitution and all its parts, as well as its history, are facts. Construction indeed! Gouverneur Morris deals with some of the constructors or interpreters as follows: The Legislature will always make the power it wishes to exercise * * swearing the true intent and meaning [of the Constitution] to be that which suits their purpose. [Iii, Lift, 46.] And in numbers 39 and 40, and in the Virginia Convention, he said it was the people as thirteen distinct sovereignties, and that the government formed was federal and not national. Washington, Hamilton, Sherman, Ellsworth, Ames, Bowdoin, Morris, and, in short, all the fathers, took the same view; all recognizing the union of sovereign States. Now, how is it possible for any informed person to doubt that sovereignty is, as James Wilson says, in the people before they make a Constituti
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, at Lee circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. (search)
ist. It appears in the writings and utterances of all the fathers of the Constitution, of Hamilton as well as of Madison, of Washington, Franklin, Gerry, Wilson, Morris, of those who favored as well as those who feared a strong government. It is emphatically announced, not only in the extreme Kentucky resolutions, but in the famveral States, not named only because unknown, which should thereafter become parties, and by consenting to the proposed Union, become thereby United States. Gouverneur Morris, of Pennsylvania, was chairman of the committee on style which reported this alteration in the preamble, and he informs us in one of his letters, that the Cohe same, but that his motion had not even received a second. What becomes, then, of the argument based on this expression of the preamble, when we find that Gouverneur Morris, its author, with his well known desire to establish a National government, himself declares in his writings that the Constitution was a compact, not betwee
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
reports. Ibid, p. 841. The force that I have been able to assemble thus far at Manassas Junction, consists of a detachment of artillery under Captain D. Kemper, with two six-pounders; Captain W. H. Payne's company, numbering 76 men; Captain J. S. Green's company, numbering 57 men; Captain Hamilton's company, numbering about 60, and two Irish companies, numbering respectively, 54 and 58, and Colonel Garland's force arrived Sunday, consisting of 490 men. Altogether about 830 men. Also Captain Morris's company, 88, Warrenton Riflemen. Total 918. The Powhatan troop under Captain Lay has been ordered back here and will arrive to-day. These Virginia troops with the South Carolina brigade, which Joined them a week after, constituted the nucleus of the Army of Northern Virginia. There was considerable confusion at this time as to the rank of officers. The Convention of Virginia, just before the termination of its session, reduced the number of the higher grades in the service of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
n high in authority sometimes talking of the constitutional difficulties about enforcing measures against this belligerent power (the Confederate States), and the next moment disregarding every vestige and semblance of the Constitution. * * If he (the President) must look there (to the Constitution) alone for authority, then all these acts are flagrant usurpations. With such cool contempt does he brush aside the flimsy pretexts by which it had been sought, in striking fulfilment of Gouverneur Morris' famous prediction to avoid the shame if not the guilt of perjury, by affecting to reconcile acts like this with the provisions of the fundamental law. Better, in his view, not to attempt it; better that the legislative lion should burst at once and boldly through the meshes of the constitutional net. The attempt, indeed, by whatever abilities sustained, could not but end in failure; for it was a task beyond the power of human accomplishment. The Constitution, in letter and in spirit,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The causes of the war [from the Sunday News, Charleston, S. C., November 28, 1897.] (search)
, the State), not in the delegate (i. e., the general government), in the master, not in the servant; ultimately in the people of the several States. The very idea of limitation excludes the possibility that the delegate (i. e., the general government), should be the judge. The above, from the pen of a New Englander, expresses the sentiments of New England in 1812, and is a strict declaration of the doctrine of States' Rights, according to the teachings of Jefferson and Madison. Gouverneur Morris was the very man who revised the language of the Constitution before its final adoption, and must, therefore, have understood its meaning. These are his words: That the Constitution was a compact, not between solitary individuals, but between political societies-each State enjoying sovereign power. In a subsequent letter he says: The Union is already broken by this administration. Should we now rely upon it we would forfeit all claim to common sense. Such was then the opinion at
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.48 (search)
s many of such arguments, pro and con, in a new and forceful way, and no student of the subject should lose the benefit of the reasoning and of the historic research displayed in this work. Preamble to the Constitution. The history of the authorship of the initial clause of our Federal Constitution, We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of Ameica; and of the writing of it by Gouverneur Morris, the draftsman of the committee on style; and of its adoption by the whole convention in absolute silence, is peculiarly instructive and interesting reading. In this connection will be remembered Mr. Calhoun's suggestion, in his debate with Mr. Webster in 1833, that this phraseology—We, the people, etc.—was used as expressing only the condition of the people under the old Confederacy and before the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as it speaks of a time before such adoption, an
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Warren Blues—Extra Billy's men: Roll of officers and men of a famous band of Veterans. (search)
atcher's Run, 1864. Catterton, George Newton, orderly sergeant, wounded and captured at Fort Steadman. Catterton, Elijah N., captured at Fort Steadman (dead). Chapman, N. T. (Bose). Carr, James, captured on retreat. Coles, Thomas S., sick and died in a Petersburg hospital. Earley, Jerry A. Elliott, M. D., captured at Fort Steadman (living). Fry, J. N. Harris, James O., sergeant, surrendered at Appomattox (dead). Harris, Henry, captured at Fort Steadman. Hurt, Morris, captured on retreat to Appomattox (dead). Hill, Joseph, captured (dead). Jarman, J. L. (living). Kirby, J. S., wounded at Hatcher's Run. Kirby, Edward, captured. Maupin, Gabriel, captured. Mayo, William P., captured. Moore, Shepherd, captured. Maddox, James, captured. Michie, Lucien A., captured at Fort Steadman. Mayo, J. R., wounded at Hatcher's Run. Munday, Castello, captured. Owens, Crede, captured. Powell, William, captured at Fort Steadman. She
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
terity, and our neighbors, that to which nature and the honor of our country have given us a right—the liberty of opposing arbitrary power by speaking and writing truth. The jury gave their verdict, Not guilty; the people of the colonies exulted in the victory of freedom; Hamilton received of the common council of New York the franchises of the city for his learned and generous defence of the rights of mankind. A patriot of the revolution esteemed this trial to have been the morning Gouverneur Morris star of the American revolution. But it was not one light alone that ushered in the dawn of our independence: the stars of a whole constellation sang together for joy. In Pennsylvania, there existed the fewest checks on the power of the people. Popular zeal raged as high Logan <*> Penn. there as in any country; and Logan wrote despondingly to the proprietary,—Faction prevails among the people; liberty and privileges are ever the cry. The world was inexperienced in the harmlessne
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
independence, without comprehending other English possessions. We are very far from desiring that the nascent republic should remain the exclusive mistress of all Chap. VIII.} 1778. that immense continent. Vergennes to Montmorin, 30 Oct., 1778. In the same spirit the French minister at Philadelphia zealously urged members of congress to renounce every ambition for an increase of territory. A spirit of moderation manifested itself, especially in the delegation from New York. Gouverneur Morris was inclined to relinquish to Spain the navigation of the Mississippi, Gerard to Vergennes, 20 Oct., 1778. and while he desired the acquisition of Canada and Nova Scotia asserted the necessity of a law for setting a limit to the American dominion. Our empire, said Jay, the president of congress, is already too great to be well governed, and its constitution is inconsistent with the passion for conquest. Gerard to Vergennes, 22 Dec., 1778. Not suspecting the persistent hostility
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