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... Rebecca Russell . Chloe Smith . Rutherford Hayes , Sophia Birchard . The earlier family traditions connect the name and descent of George Hayes with the fighting plowman ( 9 ) mentioned in Scottish history , who at Loncarty , in.
... Rebecca Russell . Chloe Smith . Rutherford Hayes , Sophia Birchard . The earlier family traditions connect the name and descent of George Hayes with the fighting plowman ( 9 ) mentioned in Scottish history , who at Loncarty , in.
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... Birchard , daughter of Roger Birchard and Drusilla Austin Birchard , of that place . The Birchards had emigrated from England to Saybrook and Norwich , Vermont , as early as 1635. They soon became men of note in Norwich and Lebanon ...
... Birchard , daughter of Roger Birchard and Drusilla Austin Birchard , of that place . The Birchards had emigrated from England to Saybrook and Norwich , Vermont , as early as 1635. They soon became men of note in Norwich and Lebanon ...
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... Birchard , Israel Smith , and Daniel Austin - gave proofs of valor and patriotism in the War of Independence . Another characteristic of the Hayes stock is the almost uniform tendency toward longevity . It is a robust race , presenting ...
... Birchard , Israel Smith , and Daniel Austin - gave proofs of valor and patriotism in the War of Independence . Another characteristic of the Hayes stock is the almost uniform tendency toward longevity . It is a robust race , presenting ...
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... - iam street , Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born . This has long been Delaware's pride , and will be its fame . The income of his widowed mother , who was bereft of her husband four months before her son's birth BOYHOOD AND EDUCATION . 15.
... - iam street , Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born . This has long been Delaware's pride , and will be its fame . The income of his widowed mother , who was bereft of her husband four months before her son's birth BOYHOOD AND EDUCATION . 15.
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... Birchard , his guardian , who at this time took charge of his education , Rutherford was sent to an academy at Norwalk , Ohio . Here he remained one year under the instruction of the Rev. Mr. Chapman , a Methodist clergyman of scholarly ...
... Birchard , his guardian , who at this time took charge of his education , Rutherford was sent to an academy at Norwalk , Ohio . Here he remained one year under the instruction of the Rev. Mr. Chapman , a Methodist clergyman of scholarly ...
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Page 166 - Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 252 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Page 180 - ... justice. humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities with a view to an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Page 175 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 180 - ... immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate Convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Page 180 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war during which, under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public...
Page 165 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 200 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.
Page 166 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 187 - That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...