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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...hey made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, though now a part of Massachusetts, was for a long time a colony by itself. And thus was formed ... ... “But I assure you, Char ley, that neither Captain Church, nor any of the officers and soldiers who fought in King Philip’s War, did anything a thous... ...England. But soon afterwards, Sir Edmund Andros, an officer of the English army, arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and ... ...and the same was the case with the lieutenant governor and some other high officers. The people, however, were still allowed to choose representatives... ...hair, was the arrival at Boston of an English fleet in 1698. It brought an army which was intended for the conquest of Canada. But a malignant disease... ...re close at hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and pr... ...Grandfather found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed o...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...n V olume Six of Seven Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AN... ...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...ired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...ac: Owing to the press in behalf of Daniel Sullivan, Company E, Thirteenth Massachusetts, and the doubt; though small, which you express of his guilty... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 16, 1863. THOMAS W . SWEENEY, Continental, Philadelphia: Tad is teasing me to have you forward his pistol...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ... just witnessed the spread of republican govern- ment through all the vast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colo... ...he Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. 49 Tocqueville m... ...e and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient f... ...iged to bear arms; they formed a national militia, which appointed its own officers, and was to hold itself at all times in readiness to march for the... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ... heaviest tax upon the population of that coun- try; yet how could a great continental war be carried on with- out it? The Americans have not adopted ...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...stitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans ... ...50 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government... ... that Ordinance by put- ting power to carry it out in the hands of the new officers under the Constitution, in the place of the old ones, who had been... ...83 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five or who shall be any of their officers. These are vast national matters in his estimation; but the little... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...d send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European inter...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...assed from hand to hand, and hauled on board with breathless rapidity. The officers, smartly dressed, are at the gangway hand ing the passengers up t... ...pose. The captain appears on the paddle box with his speaking trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hope... ...ly believe that the public institu tions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, be ne... ... an immense amount of evil passion and misery. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, at Boston, is superintended by a body o... ... American Notes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, pl... ...who seem destined from their birth to serve as pioneers in the great human army: who gladly go on from year to year extending its outposts, and leavin...

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...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ... famous ‘Boston Tea Party’ of 1773 and afterwards became an officer in the Continental Army. He is reported to have been a Conservative in all mat- te... ...ton Tea Party’ of 1773 and afterwards became an officer in the Continental Army. He is reported to have been a Conservative in all mat- ters except hi... ...ck up ‘The King of the Cannibal Islands’. So far all went well. The French officers grimaced and smiled in exceedingly high spirits, wonderfully pleas... ...hagus. Notwith- standing all the sly hints and remonstrances of the French officers, she immediately approached the man, and pulling further open the ... ...l the year 1791, when they were discovered by Captain Ingraham, of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly two centuries after the discovery of the adjacent isl... ...le living in its vicinity ‘Taiohae’, and by Captain Porter was denominated Massachusetts Bay. Among the adverse tribes dwelling about the shores of th... ...es, and the natives came run- ning towards us from every direction. Had an army of invaders made an irruption into their terri- tory they could not ha...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ... Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed... ...st not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?—Dost not think of mur- dering the officers when thou gettest to sea?” I protested my innocence of these thing... ...p. And here Bildad, who, with Peleg, be it known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed pilots of the port—he being suspected to ... ...Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed ... ...surface, must have been long enough and broad enough to shade half Xerxes’ army. Who can tell how appalling to the wounded whale must have been such h... ...s into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was thrown overboard from the Jop... ...ockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the 440 Moby Dick moot point is, whether Leviathan can...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...arked. He dared to claim the countenance of the Commander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters migh... ...protect the girl. “Your name is Weyburn; your father was an officer in the army, killed on the battle-field, Arthur Abner tells me,” was her somewhat ... ... the Peninsula; I was at Talavera with him. Bad day for our cavalry.” “Our officers were young at their work then.” “They taught the Emperor’s troops ... ...men of my age or older for the 57 George Meredith cavalry—heavy losses of officers.” She spoke, as if urged by a sting to revert to the distasteful: ... ... abomi- nable woman, if aboard she was, had coolly provided herself with a continental passport—or had it done for two by her accomplice, that Weyburn... ..., a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all emulous to excel, none boasting. But, to myse...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...iddle West—was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls. In Massachusetts, thirty years before this time, he had been a farmer, and the... ...nd forth, furious quarrels broke out between hansom drivers and the police officers, steaming horses with jingling bits, their backs covered with dark... ...ies, he set his feet toward conquest, and mingled with the marchings of an army that surged forever forward and back; now in mer- ciless assault, beat... ...liance of a multitude of lights. From each street doorway was pour- ing an army of “shoppers,” women for the most part; and these—since the store cate... ...n eddy spinning outward from the middle of its turmoil, a dozen bourses of continental Europe clamoured with panic, a dozen Old-World banks, firm as t... ...e traders began slowly to leave 83 Frank Norris the Pit. One of the floor officers, an old fellow in uniform and vizored cap, appeared, gently should... ...y, and I saw Mr. Corthell’s name on the list of Ameri- can arrivals at the Continental. I guess,” she added, “he’s going to be gone a long time. I won...

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...any languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass—here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence ... ...ospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hour... ...to be summoned thence, like him, for apos tolic errands—were Custom House officers. Furthermore, on the left hand as you enter the front door, is a c... ...2 The Scarlet Letter opens on the road to Paradise. The greater part of my officers were Whigs. It was well for their venerable brotherhood that the n... ...ried off to Halifax, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Bos ton. It has often been a matter of regret with... ... veyor of His Majesty’s Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. I remembered to have read (probably in Felt’s “Annals”) ... ... ancestors. She had flourished during the period between the early days of Massachusetts and the close of the seventeenth century. Aged persons, alive... ... and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with t...

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...t his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned. The author... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ... I think, although I am an ignorant man about the great move- ments of the army, that his excellency would have been able to march against Cornwallis ... ... as it pay I got? Sure did I, and in good solid crowns; the divil a bit of continental could they muster among them all, for love nor money. Och! the ... ...ere tempted by their representations to leave the farms of Connecticut and Massachusetts, to make a trial of fortune in the woods. During all this tim... ...that the eye cannot see the end of. There is food enough in it to keep the army of Xerxes for a month, and feathers enough to make beds for the whole ... ...p gentlemen as agents among the different tribes of Indians, and sometimes officers in the army , who frequently passed half their lives on the edge o...

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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ...hich would have done honour to Napoleon Bonaparte in addressing the French army.’ 49 Charles Dickens ‘And pray,’ asked Mr Pecksniff, obviously not qu... ... could I expect in such an atmosphere as this!’ ‘Don’t direct your halfpay-officers’ gaze at me, ma’am, if you please,’ interposed Miss Charity; ‘for ... ...iley intimated that he thought of going either into top-boots, or into the army. ‘Into the army!’ cried the young ladies, with a laugh. ‘Ah!’ said Bai... ...icered the Ameri- can militia must be; and wondering very much whether the officers commanded each other; or if they did not, where on earth the priva... ...ng the bearer of a letter of introduc- tion to you, sir. From Mr Bevan, of Massachusetts,’ he added, giv- ing it to him. The General took it and read ... ...s I tell my friend, the beehive, the beehive. You projected a short little continental trip, my dear friend, of course?’ Jonas maintained a dogged sil...

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... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...e Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, the date fixed by the Continental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen... ...ental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, j udges of the federal and district courts, foreign officials, ... ... enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These, covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun tha... ...circumstances. Of the virtue of the people and of the heroic exploits of the Army, the Navy, and the militia I need not speak. Such, then, is the happ... ...inst these dangers our coast and in land frontiers should be fortified, our Army and Navy, regulated upon just principles as to the force of each, be... ...uled. The election of 1960 had been close, and the Democratic Sena tor from Massachusetts was eager to gather support for his agenda. He attended Hol... ...the greatest among the Founding Fathers, Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Massachusetts Congress, said to his fellow Americans, INAUGURAL ADDRESSES...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame......... ...justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. ... ... Delaware! Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean sh... ...can be done flickering aloft and below, The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty, Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themse... ...nese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place! Al... ...reak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind, Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers! TO Y OU Wh... ...ercising, There is the camp, one regiment departs to morrow, Do you hear the officers giving their orders? Do you hear the clank of the muskets? Why w...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...ar as I could see, there was no analogy between the two cases. In India an army had mutinied, and that an army com- posed of a subdued, if not a servi... ... any sympathy shown by us to insurgent negroes. But, nevertheless, had the army which mutinied in India been in possession of ports and sea-board; had... ... of this page would have been as unreasonable had that reader been born in Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the dearly-beloved friends of my fami... ...er francs and shil- lings which disgrace, in Europe, many English and many continental inns. All this is, as must be admitted, great praise; and yet I... ...States, in this respect, are not all alike, the modes of election of their officers, and periods of service, being different. Even the franchise is di... ...perty is mov- able, and that an insolvent debtor will not always await the officers of justice. But with the poor Maid there was no need of such secre... ...eet I extend my custom on a different system; and when I make my start for continental life I have with him a matter of unsettled business to a consid...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...ey Air Force Base Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) NORAD Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis ... ...with one pair of ready fighters: Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other fa... ...ld need time to arm the fighters and organize crews. NEADS reported to the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR) headquarters, in Panama City, Florida,... ...the operational personnel at NEADS or FAA facilities. NEADS commanders and officers actively sought out information, and made the best judgments they ... ...nted document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebra... ...d States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated... ...m Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qaeda finance officers and top oper- atives used their positions in Bin Ladin’s businesse...

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...y, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force....

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...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...phlets and weekly papers against those very measures. Not only many of the officers of government, who obeyed the dictates of personal interest, but o... ... can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, a... ...ith one another. Notwithstand- ing their true interest with respect to the continental nations was really the same, yet by the arts and policy and pra... ...If Shays had not been a desperate debtor, it is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding... ...t the strength and delay the progress of an invader. Formerly, an invading army would penetrate into the heart of a neighboring country al- most as so... ...th the principles or propensities of the other state. The smallness of the army renders the natural strength of the community an over-match for it; an... ...racies, we should be, in a short course of time, in the predicament of the continental powers of Eu- rope —our liberties would be a prey to the means ...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... be extremely hard to hit with any sort of missile. I do not think a large army of under-educated, under-trained, extremely unwilling con- scripts is ... ...er war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Army that it was possible to 9 H. G . Wells make a military use of barbed ... ... him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull schools of their class wh... ...their fiscal ar- rangements, and it was Napoleon’s attempt to strangle the Continental trade with Great Britain that began his downfall. I do not find... ... shock of seeing men killed round about him, confidence in himself, in his officers, and the methods and weapons of his side. Body, mind, and imaginat... ...n army. I believe that the vast masses of men in uniform maintained by the Continental Powers at the present time are enormously overrated as fighting... ...eir lungs become black and choked with small particles of anthracite….” In Massachusetts, at Fall River, the Hon. J.F. Carey tells how little naked bo...

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...ess matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have...

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...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... ... Last night we held a Whig caucus for the House, and nominated Winthrop of Massachusetts for speaker, Sargent of Pennsylvania for sergeant-at-arms, Ho... ...n, and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army. Fourth. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and al... ...that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army, leav- ing unprotected their homes and their growing crops, be- fore t... ...as shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of t... ...ost splen- did successes, every department and every part, land and water, officers and privates, regulars and volunteers, do- ing all that men could ... ...tes, saying that the people of Illinois agreed entirely with the people of Massachusetts on this subject, except perhaps that they did not keep so con... ...posed law of 1817 was far less offensive than the present one. In 1774 the Continental Congress pledged itself, without a dissenting vote, to wholly d...

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...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...in 1775 he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival ... ...son and Oliver. On his arrival in Philadelphia he was chosen a member of the Continental Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissio... ...d with arms, formed themselves into companies and regiments, chose their own officers, and met every week to be instructed in the manual exercise, and... ...ompanies, painted with dif ferent devices and mottos, which I supplied. The officers of the companies composing the Philadelphia regiment, being met,... ...and the remainder to be paid by General Braddock, or by the paymaster of the army, at the time of their discharge, or from time to time, as it shall b... ...s sary for the subsistence of the horses, is to be taken for the use of the army, and a reasonable price paid for the same. “Note.—My son, William Fr... ...hosen a delegate to the Sec The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 160 ond Continental Congress; placed on the committee of se cret correspondence;...

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...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ..., for a mother who has born twenty children not to have two alive. Several officers of great experience have assured me, that, so far from recruiting ... ...d in some particular sorts of work, and liberally paid by the piece, their officers have frequently been obliged to stipu- late with the undertaker, t... ...The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. The son of a creditable labourer or artificer may frequently go to se... ...the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the com- mon estimation. As the grea... ... alone. The persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importa... ...fferent people, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under tho... ...rica, there is a provincial tax of this kind upon their importa- tion into Massachusetts Bay, in ships belonging to any other colony, of eight-pence t...

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...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...e, then, could the Red Man set his foot? The honey bee hummed through the Massachusetts woods, and sipped the wild flowers round the Indian’s wigwam,... ...ism, and Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted, and other tracts, done into the Massachusetts tongue, and taught them Christianity meanwhile. “This place,”... ...the phalanxes, Shouting to their companions from rank to rank.” When the army of the T rojans passed the night under arms, keeping watch lest the en... ...not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are slower than a Roman army in its march, the rear camping to night where the van camped last nigh... ...avid M’Clary, also citizens of Londonderry, were “distinguished and brave” officers.—”Major Andrew M’Clary, a native of this town [Epsom], fell at the... ... of pure melody, we easily come to reverence him. Passing over the earlier continental poets, since we are bound to the pleasant archipelago of Englis...