The Presidents and Their Administrations: A Handbook of Political Parties, for Every VoterJ.W. Robinson, 1873 - 320 страница |
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... Battle of Lexington . It being known that the Americans were col- lecting military stores at Concord , Major . Pitcairn was sent by Governor Gage with a body of men to take and destroy them . The people in the country were notified by ...
... Battle of Lexington . It being known that the Americans were col- lecting military stores at Concord , Major . Pitcairn was sent by Governor Gage with a body of men to take and destroy them . The people in the country were notified by ...
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... Battle of Bunker Hill . General Warren killed . July 2d , Washington assumed command of the troops around Boston ... Battle of Long Island . Sept. 14th , New York evacuated . Oct. 28th , Battle of White Plains . Nov. 16th , The British ...
... Battle of Bunker Hill . General Warren killed . July 2d , Washington assumed command of the troops around Boston ... Battle of Long Island . Sept. 14th , New York evacuated . Oct. 28th , Battle of White Plains . Nov. 16th , The British ...
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... Battle of Brandy Wine . September 19th , First battle of Saratoga ; " Bemiz's Heights . " September 25th , Philadelphia captured by the British . October 4th , Battle of Germantown . October 6th , Forts Clinton and Montgomery taken ...
... Battle of Brandy Wine . September 19th , First battle of Saratoga ; " Bemiz's Heights . " September 25th , Philadelphia captured by the British . October 4th , Battle of Germantown . October 6th , Forts Clinton and Montgomery taken ...
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... Battle of Monk's Corner . May 12th , Lincoln surrendered Charleston to the British . May 29th , Battle of Waxhaw Creek . June 23d , Battle of Springfield , New York . July 10th , Second French fleet arrived at Newport . August 6th , Battle ...
... Battle of Monk's Corner . May 12th , Lincoln surrendered Charleston to the British . May 29th , Battle of Waxhaw Creek . June 23d , Battle of Springfield , New York . July 10th , Second French fleet arrived at Newport . August 6th , Battle ...
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... battles from Lexington to the Surrender of Cornwallis , the total loss of the British was 25,481 men ; that of the ... battle , returned to bless and cheer the wearied patriots . The war was virtually closed when Lord Cornwallis ...
... battles from Lexington to the Surrender of Cornwallis , the total loss of the British was 25,481 men ; that of the ... battle , returned to bless and cheer the wearied patriots . The war was virtually closed when Lord Cornwallis ...
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Страница 263 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Страница 247 - ... it becomes our duty by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Страница 233 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Страница 285 - 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 of a 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 welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Страница 115 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Страница 265 - 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.
Страница 265 - These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Страница 223 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Страница 266 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Страница 260 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then...