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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...ist 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 recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ... by water he would not reach you in two weeks, judging by past experience. Franklin’s single division did not reach you in ten days after I ordered it... ...J. C. FREMONT. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 4 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL FREMONT, Franklin: Y ou are authorized to purchase the 400 horses, or take them wher... ...mitted by private messengers, who pursued a circuitous way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the norther... ...way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the northern lakes. I believe by these and other similar measures ... ...ay, in your judgment, be neces- sary to garrison and hold all the numerous cities and military 69 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six positions... ... Gamble tele- graphed me, asking that the assessments outside of St. Louis County might be suspended, as they already have been within it, and this mo... ...ev. John M. Robinson, of Colum- bia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Mis- souri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Mis- souri...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, the Pennsylvania St... .......................................................................... 47 Franklin Jones ............................................................... ... Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the county jail Than to lie under this marble figure with wings, And this grani... ...your vision watched for men and women Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities, Looking for the souls of them to come out, So that you could see Ho... ...u: If all of the children, born here in Spoon River Had been reared by the County, somewhere on a farm; And the fathers and mothers had been given the... ...ary’s side— Kissing her with my soul upon my lips It suddenly took flight. Franklin Jones IF I could have lived another year I could have finished my ... ... the free love, Fourierist gardens that flourished Before the war all over Ohio. Her dilettante lover had tired of her, And she turned to me for stren... ... something washed and ironed. Harmon Whitney OUT of the lights and roar of cities, Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River, Burnt out with the fire ...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...INGTON, November 14, 1863. 12.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Cincinnati, Ohio: I have received and considered your dispatch of yesterday. Of the rep... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ...Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular c... ...irs, first begun at Chicago and next held in Boston, Cincinnati, and other cities. The motive and object that lie at the bottom of them are worthy of... ...ln: V ol Seven ORDER ANNULLING THE SENTENCE AGAINST BENJAMIN G . SMITH AND FRANKLIN W. SMITH, MARCH 18, 1865. I am unwilling for the sentence to stand... ...Leon), St. Johns (Jack- sonville), and Apalachicola, in Florida; of Teche (Franklin), in Louisiana; of Galveston, La Salle, Brazos de Santiago (Point ...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln are associated with those of Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, and of the other “Founders of the Republic,” not that Lincoln sho... ...and some of his pieces were even deemed good enough for publication in the county weekly. Thus he won a neighborhood reputation as a clever young man,... ...m a friend to buy a new suit of clothes—”store clothes” fit for a Sangamon County statesman; and thus adorned he set out for the state capital, Vandal... ...o of so dramatic a con- test, he had been induced to visit several Eastern cities, and had astonished and delighted large and distinguished audiences ... ...e 65 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One cannot sleep forever,”—and Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry were all utterly opposed to it... ...with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At w... ... to be immortalized; their names were to be transferred to coun- ties, and cities, and rivers, and mountains; and to be re- vered and sung, toasted th...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ss. And yet Washington has been a failure. It is commerce that makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and... ...and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are beaten by none except by London and Paris. Bu... ...o treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentleman from Indiana a question.” “The gentleman f... ...stion.” “The gentleman from Indiana gives permission.” “The gentleman from Ohio!”—these last words being a summons to him of Ohio to get up and ask hi... ...nois, 81 Trollope or Virginia. We are apt to connect the name of Benjamin Franklin with Pennsylvania, but Franklin was a Boston man. Nevertheless, Pe... ... his name has not been spread abroad widely in men’s mouths. Of Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison we have all heard; our children speak of them, and th... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...t calculation of beating you and your friends for the lower house, in that county. They offer to bet upon it. Billings and Job, respec- tively, have b... ...scarcely be sustained on a per- sonal acquaintance. Two things done by the Ohio Republican convention—the repudiation of Judge Swan, and the “plank” f... ...singly urged to go to Minnesota; and I now have two invi- tations to go to Ohio. These last are prompted by Douglas going there; and I am really tempt... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished... ...teen were several of the most noted anti-slavery men of those times—as Dr. Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris while there was not one... ...ent means to counteract, even, if neces- sary, to the bombardment of their cities and, in the extremist necessity, the suspension of the writ of habea... ... communicate with nobody but General Fitz John Porter, and perhaps General Franklin. I do not say these complaints are true or just; but at all events...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at thi... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...ates which at first attempted to establish a single House of Assembly, and Franklin himself was so far carried away by the necessary consequences of t... ...become an axiom in the political science of the present age. [See Benjamin Franklin] The Executive Power of the State Office of Governor in an America...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ses and all conditions. In the kind of pro vincial life which prevails in cities such as this, the Pulpit has great influence. The peculiar province ... ...e roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are... ...in the great benefits it confers; a quiet, quaint old Library, named after Franklin; a handsome Exchange and Post Office; and so forth. In connection ... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...t of its way to ripple near this mound: and there are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek. All this I see as ... ...y availed ourselves of its excellent hotel. Next day we went on in the Ben Franklin, a beautiful mail steamboat, and reached Cincinnati shortly after ... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...an of him. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might haply g... ... have something better than royal blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the ... ...n of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the... ...ugh the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving vil lages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swam... .... Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled — the delicious death of an Ohio honey hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found ... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the ... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...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 t... ...0 The hijackers attacked at 9:28.While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the descent,... ...set up as one of the first outposts of Azzam and Bin Ladin’s MAK. 40 Other cities with branches of al Khifa included Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Pittsbu... ...ence gathering dates from the 1930s.With W orld W ar II looming, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to investigate f... ...ment authority. Terrorist watchlists were not available to them. Mayors in cities with large immigrant populations sometimes imposed limits on city em... ...the event—a plane crash, fire, and partial building collapse—the Arlington County Fire Department served as incident com- mander. Different agencies h... ...ncident required a major rescue, fire, and medical response from Arlington County at the U.S. military’s headquarters—a facility under the control of ... ...(additional views of Richard Betts). 11.Waldo Heinrichs, Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II (Oxford Univ. Pr...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvan... ... I am in the cars between Pittsburgh and Chicago, just now bowling through Ohio. I am taking charge of a kid, whose mother is asleep, with one eye, wh... ... an active step. The gentleman is R. L. S.; the volume relates to Benjamin Franklin, on whom he meditates one of his charming es- says. He descends Po... ...h will want a really Balzacian effort over the proofs. But I want Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Virtue to follow; and perhaps also William Penn, bu... ...ul in peace, and continue to possess my body on any terms. CALISTOGA, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA All which is a fortnight old and not much to the point n... ...ters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Forth-faring tow’rd far mountain summits, Cities of men on the sounding Ocean. Youth sang the song in years immemoria... ...onceive the kingdom of the Muses mildlier mannered; and in particular that county which you administer and which I seem to see as a half-suburban land...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...

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