The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial, Judicial and Industrial History : Embracing Sketches of the Lives of Its Chief Magistrates, Its Eminent Statesmen, Financiers, Soldiers and Jurists, with Monographs on Subjects of Peculiar Historical Interest, Volume 2James Harrison Kennedy Williams Publishing Company, 1888 - Presidents |
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... reached a climax , all the banks in New York then suspending specie payments . The banks of Boston , Provi- dence , Hartford , Albany , Philadelphia , Baltimore , and many other large towns followed the same course . On the sixteenth of ...
... reached a climax , all the banks in New York then suspending specie payments . The banks of Boston , Provi- dence , Hartford , Albany , Philadelphia , Baltimore , and many other large towns followed the same course . On the sixteenth of ...
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... reached a point a mile and a half distant from the town , and a parley was demanded . A pro- fessedly friendly message was received from the Prophet , who hoped the soldiers would not enter the town and needlessly frighten the women and ...
... reached a point a mile and a half distant from the town , and a parley was demanded . A pro- fessedly friendly message was received from the Prophet , who hoped the soldiers would not enter the town and needlessly frighten the women and ...
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... siege raised and the enemy gone . Here he was joined on the eighteenth by General Win- chester , who was chief in command . Returning , General Harrison reached Piqua on the twenty - fourth , where he found WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON . 667.
... siege raised and the enemy gone . Here he was joined on the eighteenth by General Win- chester , who was chief in command . Returning , General Harrison reached Piqua on the twenty - fourth , where he found WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON . 667.
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... reached him of the ap- pointment of Harrison as major - general and commander - in - chief of the army in the ... reaching the point of starvation , when Colonel Jennings , in command of an escort conveying provisions , arrived at the ...
... reached him of the ap- pointment of Harrison as major - general and commander - in - chief of the army in the ... reaching the point of starvation , when Colonel Jennings , in command of an escort conveying provisions , arrived at the ...
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... reached the fort just in time to receive the attack . For five days a terri- ble fire was kept up against the garrison , who were well protected by the defenses . The arrival of reinforcements decided him upon making a sortie from the ...
... reached the fort just in time to receive the attack . For five days a terri- ble fire was kept up against the garrison , who were well protected by the defenses . The arrival of reinforcements decided him upon making a sortie from the ...
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Page 920 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 872 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 920 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 912 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 853 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Page 885 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 971 - The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant and self-reliant ; and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you.
Page 981 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy...
Page 864 - I sincerely hope Father may yet recover his health; but at all events tell him to remember to call upon and confide in our great, and good, and merciful Maker, who will not turn away from him in any extremity. He notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads; and He will not forget the dying man who puts his trust in Him.
Page 1000 - Whereas, it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political...