A Child's History of the United States, Part 2McMenamy, Hess & Company, 1875 - Adventure and adventurers |
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... began at Lexington , had now lasted several years . England had spent millions upon millions , and had achieved so little that she seemed to look only to the injury she could inflict on her once prosperous colonies , while America ...
... began at Lexington , had now lasted several years . England had spent millions upon millions , and had achieved so little that she seemed to look only to the injury she could inflict on her once prosperous colonies , while America ...
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... began their campaign together . His great object was to take New York , where the English had so long been in undisturbed possession . A plan for the capture of the city was drawn up , and conveyed to General Ro- chambeau , by Lafayette ...
... began their campaign together . His great object was to take New York , where the English had so long been in undisturbed possession . A plan for the capture of the city was drawn up , and conveyed to General Ro- chambeau , by Lafayette ...
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... began to think that they were wrong , when , on drawing off his boots , they found papers between his foot and stocking . They were documents from Arnold , giving the posi- tion of the force at West Point , its strength , artillery ...
... began to think that they were wrong , when , on drawing off his boots , they found papers between his foot and stocking . They were documents from Arnold , giving the posi- tion of the force at West Point , its strength , artillery ...
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... began , it was considered in England as a trifle , a petty insurrection , to be put down at once it had become a great and fearfully expensive war , and now the whole continent of Europe was arrayed against England . France and Spain ...
... began , it was considered in England as a trifle , a petty insurrection , to be put down at once it had become a great and fearfully expensive war , and now the whole continent of Europe was arrayed against England . France and Spain ...
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... began a course of plunder and destruction . He swept through the peninsula between the York and James , destroying all the public stores and tobacco . He then entered Petersburg , where he de- stroyed immense quantities of tobacco and ...
... began a course of plunder and destruction . He swept through the peninsula between the York and James , destroying all the public stores and tobacco . He then entered Petersburg , where he de- stroyed immense quantities of tobacco and ...
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Page 65 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 46 - I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution ; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm.
Page 263 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 13 - We love, we respect you," cried they, "but you are a dead man if you fire. Do not mistake us; we are not going to the enemy: were they now to come out, you would see us fight under your orders with as much resolution and alacrity as ever.
Page 65 - 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 37 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 72 - That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Page 65 - Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Page 68 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 257 - In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy, it must be on the principle that the Federal Government is a mere voluntary association of States, to be dissolved at pleasure by any one of the contracting ^.-, ' SOUTH CAROLINA'S ORDINANCE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION, DECEMBER 20, 1860, DURING BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION. parties. If this be so...