American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including Also Life Delineations of Our Most Noted Men. A Book for the Times

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H. Heron, 1883 - Industries - 739 pages

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Enemy of British Tyranny Fills this High Office What His Mission Involved All Europe
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ment to be Framed Statesmen and Sages in Council Dignity Learning and Eloquence of
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Shipof War Serapis in British Waters Crowds of Spectators Line the Coast The Most Sangui
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FIRST ELECTION AND INAUGURATION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1789
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Clairs Army in 1791 Before the Trained Warriors of Little Turtle This Mortifying Disaster
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to the United States Excise Laws Monster Meetings and Inflammatory Appeals Officials
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of Washington Bitter Sectional Contest in Deciding the Location First Compromise in Con
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Words Fortitude and Serenity Through all His Sufferings He Calmly Announces His Approach 3
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and Planets in Full Radiance Magnificent Spectacle of the Glittering Corona around the Moon
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ion at the Southwest A New Empire Contemplated with Burr as SovereignSeizure of His Flo
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Force Felt all Over the Valley of the Mississippi and to the Atlantic Coast The Earth Suddenly
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TIME IN A SQUADRON FIGHT Lake Erie the Scene of the Encounter Sixteen Vessels
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GENERAL JACKSONS TERRIBLE ROUT AND SLAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH 1815
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Tempest Suffocating Current of Hot Air All New England Desolated
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VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO AMERICA AS THE GUEST OF THE REPUBLIC AT 1824
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DUEL BETWEEN HENRY CLAY SECRETARY OF STATE AND JOHN RANDOLPH 1826
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THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN WEBSTER AND HAYNE IN CONGRESS Vi1830
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Dwight L Moody Portrait
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RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE MORMONS OR LATTERDAY SAINTS UNDER 1830
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Stephen A Douglas Portrait and Autograph 474
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RECEPTION OF THE EMBASSY FROM JAPAN 487
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CAREER CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF GIBBS THE MOST NOTED PIRATE 1831
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and Brilliant Celestial Phenomenon Ever Beheld and Recorded by Man The Whole Firmament
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Remarkable Meteoric Display on the Missis
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BATTLE OF BULL RUN
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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JACKSON AT THE UNITED 1835
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General McClellan Portrait and Autograph 537
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Secretary Stanton Portrait and Autograph
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Old Man Eloquent Carries on a Contest of Eleven Days Single Handed in its Defense in
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Flames Encircles the Earth Arches of Resplendent Auroral Glories Span the Hemisphere Innu
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in the United States Origin Rapid Spread Influence and Wonderful History of the Movement
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the South Pass Plants the American Flag on the Highest Peak of that Lofty Range He Enriches
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MUTINY ON BOARD THE UNITED STATES BRIGOFWAR SOMERS CAPTAIN A 1842
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SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A GREAT AND FIERY COMET IN THE SKIES AT 1843
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demics at Different Periods Frightful Mortality and Panic Business Abandoned Churches Closed
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PROF JOHN W WEBSTER OF HARVARD COLLEGE High Social Position of the Par
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Thousand Persons Welcome Her Arrival Transcendent Beauty and Power of Her Voice
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America Distances by Nearly Eight Miles the Whole Fleet of Swift and Splendid Competitors
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THE INVITED GUEST OF THE NATION Splendid Military Pageant in New York on
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OR KOSSUTH IN NEW YORK
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EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS IN NEW YORK Construction 1853
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LOSS OF THE SPLENDID COLLINS STEAMSHIP ARCTIC OF NEW YORK BY 1854
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Great Panic A Sudden Universal Crash in the Height of Prosperity Caused by Wild Speculations
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POLITICAL DEBATE BETWEEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND STEPHEN A DOUG 1858
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ties of Illuminating Oil in the Depths of the Earth Boring of Innumerable Wells Fabulous Prices
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TOUR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES 1860
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the United States First Military Act in the Long and Bloody Struggle to Dismember the Union
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Major Anderson with Autograph
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Ideal of a Mechanical Miracle Principle Structure and Operation of the Machine NetWork
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THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY Three Months Since Sumter Fell On to Richmond
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EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT BETWEEN THE IRONCLADS MERRIMAC AND MON 1862
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One Hundred Thousand Men on Each Side General McClellan Declares on the Field that it
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICKSBURG THE GIBRALTAR OF THE MISSISSIPPI 1863
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THREE DAYS BATTLE BETWEEN THE CONCENTRATED ARMIES OF GENER 1863
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ORATORICAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICAS CAUSE IN ENGLAND BY REV H 1863
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COMBAT BETWEEN THE ALABAMA CAPTAIN SEMMES AND THE KEAR 1864
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THIRTY THOUSAND MILES OF RAILWAY IN THIRTY YEARS AND EIGHTY 1859
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THE NORTHWEST Most Destructive Conflagration in the History of Civilized Nations A
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Changes Sought in the Relations between Producers and Consumers General Declaration
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of the Highest Civilization Condition of the Country Previous to such Efforts Early Scenes
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Jubilee Festival and Pageant throughout the Land Prosperity Power and Renown of the
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SIEGE AT VICKSBURG BY GENERAL GRANT 557
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Mr Beechers Church Brooklyn N Y
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MAC RAILWAY STATION IN WASHINGTON JULY 2 His Departure from the White
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Portrait of Mrs Garfield
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Admiral Dupont
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a Dense Black Atmosphere for Fifteen Hours The Herds Retire to their Stalls the Fowls to their
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Page 472 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 67 - 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 472 - I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
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