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...hus 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 the active list, and not otherwise.?...

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...en Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENT... ...he Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be re... ...ially recom- mend that Captain D. G . Farragut receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his services and gallantry displayed in the cap- ture since 21... ...rdially rec- ommend that they should, by name, receive a vote of thanks of Congress: List: Captain Theodorus Bailey. Captain Henry W . Morris. Captain... ...ps. On the sixth day of March last, by special message, I rec- ommended to Congress the adoption of a joint resolution, to be substantially as follows... ...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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...re is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get th... ...re is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau, to run Douglas Republican for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get th... ...ze the whole country—there would be no more slavery agitation in or out of Congress, and the vexed question would be left entirely to the people of th... ...ong time before she may be so. We all know how fierce the agitation was in Congress last winter, and what a narrow escape Kansas had from being admitt... ...e angry de- bates which took place at Washington during the last season of Congress lead you to suppose that the slavery agitation was settled? An ele... ...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... ...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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...ed, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honour. The least fracture now will be like ... ...treet, town, and county do on the smaller ones; distinctions too limited for continental minds. Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this provinc... ... most powerful of all arguments, is, that noth ing but independence, i.e. a continental form of gov ernment, can keep the peace of the continent and... ...y. The colonies have manifested such a spirit of good order and obedience to continental government, as is sufficient to make every reasonable person ... ...ir business wholly domestic, and subject to the authority of a Continen tal Congress. Let each colony be divided into six, eight, or ten, convenient ... ...onvenient districts, each district to send a proper num ber of delegates to Congress, so that each colony send at least thirty. The whole number in C... ...end at least thirty. The whole number in Congress will be at least 390. Each Congress to sit and to choose a presi dent by the following method. When... ... taken from the whole thirteen colo nies by lot, after which, let the whole Congress choose (by ballot) a president from out of the delegates of that... ...erned and the governors, that is, between the Congress and the people. let a CONTINENTAL CONFER ENCE be held, in the following manner, and for the fo...

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...ity. 3 Woodrow Wilson WHY WE ARE AT WAR By Woodrow Wilson Messages to the Congress January to April, 1917 by W oodrow Wilson, President of the United... ...OTE* This book presents in convenient form the memorable mes- sages to the Congress read by President Wilson in January, February, and April, 1917. Th... ...War II THE SEVERANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELA- TIONS WITH GERMANY Message to the Congress February 3, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS: The Imperial German Go... ...s to which it is clearly my duty to call your attention. Let me remind the Congress that on the 18th of April last, in view of the sinking on the 24th... ... dictates of humanity, I shall take the liberty of coming again before the Congress to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be nec... ...regulations herein contained shall extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the jurisdiction of the United St...

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...afraid, States to be curb’d and thoughts to be confined, Conspiracy or Congress to be made— Cobbling at manacles for all mankind— A tinker... ...he tongue more free. And yet the British ‘Damme’ ‘s rather Attic: Your continental oaths are but incontinent, And turn on things which no aris... ... Queen— I have seen crowns worn instead of a fool’s cap— I have seen a Congress doing all that ‘s mean— I have seen some nations like o’erload... ...ke a bank of vapour. Who hold the balance of the world? Who reign O’er congress, whether royalist or liberal? Who rouse the shirtless patriots... ... a pretty poet. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Fifteen” 313 The conference or congress (for it ended As congresses of late do) of the Lady Adelin...

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...ved, the editor is furthermore indebted to the Librarian of the Library of Congress; to Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co., D. Appleton & Co., Macmillan ... ..., in 1846, he was elected 16 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One to Congress. In a clever speech in the House of Represen- tatives he denounced... ...is country in solving the great problem. Nor had his career as a member of Congress in any sense been such as to gratify his ambition. Indeed, if he e... ...lavery battle in the popular assembly, or in the press, or in the halls of Congress, far surpassed him in prestige, and compared with whom he was stil... ... a judge on the supreme bench of Illinois, three times a Representative in Congress, and a Senator of the United States when only thirty-nine years ol... ...ions should also be sought from Russia and Great Brit- ain, and a vigorous continental spirit of independence against European intervention be aroused...

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...f Massachusetts proposed that del egates from every colony should meet in Congress. Accord ingly nine colonies, both Northern and Southern, sent del... ...ing was yet to be done before England and America could come to blows. The Congress stated the rights and griev ances of the colonists. They sent a h... ...re close at hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and pr... ...hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and proposed such ... ...h measures as they thought most conducive to the public good. A Provincial Congress was likewise chosen in Massachusetts. They exhorted the people to ... ...Grandfather found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed o... ...found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed of delegates ... ...reverend appendage to a cleri cal skull. There, too, were officers of the Continental army, who required their hair to be pomatumed and plastered, so...

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... 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... ...n may be made. Amendments must be proposed by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several ... ...l Constitution. Chapter Summary Origin of the first Union – Its weakness – Congress appeals to the constituent authority – Interval of two years betwe... ...the efferves- cence of the revolution, and of those great men who had led *Congress made this declaration on February 21, 1787. 132 Democracy in Amer... ...never the exclusive right of regulating certain matters is not reserved to Congress by the Constitution, the States may take up the affair until it is... ...belongs, by its very nature, to the na- tional sovereignty. In America the Congress alone has the right of regulating the commercial relations of the ... ... 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 ... ...is always greater facility and less danger in supporting a maritime than a continental war. Maritime warfare only requires one species of effort. A co... ...mises the existence or independence of the people which endures it. As for continental wars, it is evident that the nations of Eu- rope cannot be form...

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... at first; it may be of a merely diplomatic pretension; it may be called a Congress, or any old name of that sort, but essentially its business will b... ... the world to go through. Every American knows the district that sends its congress- man to Washington for the good of his district, and the dis- tric... ... reading. English history from the be- ginning, with occasional glances at Continental affairs, Eu- ropean history for about a century, bits of econom... ...f lan- guages, mere schoolmasters’ gossip, but the consequences are on the continental scale. The want of these national text- books and readers is a ... ...he Italians, the British have to reckon with Islam and the Arab; where the continental deserts are, there the Arabs are and there is Islam; their cult...

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...ady. Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Rail- way Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables ... ...t imag- ine. Was it to nominate some high official—a governor or member of Congress? It was not improbable, so agitated was the multitude before them.... ...ed in seven days. It was in 1862 that, in spite of the Southern Members of Congress, who wished a more southerly route, it was de- cided to lay the ro... ...redoubled their efforts, and resisted, by words at least, the authority of Congress. Elder Hitch, as is seen, was trying to make pros- elytes on the v... ...tions. “And this,” added Elder William Hitch, “this is why the jealousy of Congress has been aroused against us! Why have the soldiers of the Union in...

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...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...s the gayest and most admired of En- glishwomen: and had a little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and Engl... ...were her sphere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There wa... ... hear him cry); sometimes she found the brilliant dandy diplomatist of the Congress of Vienna dragging about a child’s toy, or nursing the keeper’s ba...

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... 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... ... and longed for the Forest and the Prairie. I asked him what he thought of Congress? He an swered, with a smile, that it wanted dignity, in an Indian... ...ish them. The number of cadets being about equal to that of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member ... ...y year, the tone of public feeling must sink lower down; year by year, the Congress and the Senate must become of less account before all decent men; ...

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...tre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, in their HUCKLEBERRY FINN 97 sublime S... ... AND EDMUND KEAN THE ELDER! Of the London and Continental Theatres, In their Thrilling Tragedy o... ...a baths if it ain’t on the sea?” “Looky here,” I says; “did you ever see any Congress wa ter?” “Yes.” “Well, did you have to go to Congress to get it... ...ea bath.” “How does he get it, then?” “Gets it the way people down here gets Congress water — in barrels. There in the palace at Sheffield they’ve got...

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... party which he had adopted. He had been, for a biennial term, a member of Congress, after winning some distinction in the legisla ture of his native... ... does not even sit his horse like an Englishman, but in that absurd, stiff continental way, as if a poker should get on horseback. Neither has he an E... ...nted by the President, by and with the advice of the Senate, to one of the Continental missions, usually esteemed an object of considerable ambition t...

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...e of expenditure prevalent, not only amongst the correspond- ing bodies of continental nations, but even amongst the poorer sections of our own nobili... ...ter the fashion of Louis Qua- torze, or our Charles II., and so many other continental princes. There were living witnesses (more than one) of his abe... ...olics, by an association that arrogated to itself the style and title of a congress. No man could suppose that a designation so ominously significant ... ...r- eigner ever sees at home will at least be always within reach, from the continental practice of using the bed room for the sitting room. But in Eng...

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...base success was written on his brow. He was then in his ill days; but I can imagine him in Congress with his mouth full of bombast and sawder. As we ... ...ll for ever tempers his austerities. Any one who has travelled westward by the great trans- continental railroad of America must remember the joy with...

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...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...s the gayest and most admired of En- glishwomen: and had a little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and Engl... ...were her sphere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There wa... ... hear him cry); sometimes she found the brilliant dandy diplomatist of the Congress of Vienna dragging about a child’s toy, or nursing the keeper’s ba... ...which she requested him to mind his book, and said she was going to take a Continental tour, during which she would have the plea- sure of writing to ... ... always have a lawsuit, and very simple English folks, who fancy they see “Continental society” at these houses, put down their money, or ate their me...

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...rget the library—on some shelves, a score or two of volumes of the Acts of Congress, and a bulky Digest of the Revenue laws. A tin pipe ascends throug... ... 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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...ritish Empire and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised, Congress and Parliament were usu- ally regarded as antique, curious gatheri... ...was ready, and so were the aeroplanes. We expected a little trouble in the continental cities, and in America. But things are very quiet in America. T...

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...e divans, “this is a library which would do honour to more than one of the continental palaces, and I am absolutely astounded when I consider that it ... ...nding the bottom. There, too, Lieutenant Parker, of the American frig- ate Congress, could not touch the bottom with 15,140 fathoms. Captain Nemo inte...

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...me. It is my yearning and my thirst. ‘Are you, sir, aware of any member of Congress in England, who would undertake to pay my expenses to that country... ... sir, that is the 491 Charles Dickens Honourable Elijah Pogram, Member of Congress; one of the mas- ter-minds of our country, sir. There is a brow, s... ...ound up. ‘Mr Pogram,’ said the introducer, ‘is a public servant, sir. When Congress is recessed, he makes himself acquainted with those free United St... ...m (he voted for Pogram) had thun- dered the last sentence from his seat in Congress, at the head of an unpopular President. It told brilliantly; for t... ...ou. And may it, My friends, be written on My tomb, “He was a member of the Congress of our common country, and was ac-Tive in his trust.”’ ‘The Com-mi... ...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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...at news does the Judge bring us from the Legislature? It’s not likely that Congress has done much this session; or maybe the French haven’t fit any mo... ... 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 ...

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...ant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress 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 ...

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...e visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nomin... ...at they are for Texas anyhow. As ever yours, A. LINCOLN. 1845 SELECTION OF CONGRESSIONAL CAN- DIDATES TO Gen. J. J. HARDIN, SPRINGFIELD, Jany. 19, 184... ...n in your proposal of a new plan for the selection of a Whig candidate for Congress because: 1st. I am entirely satisfied with the old system under wh... ...ystem under which you and Baker were successively nominated and elected to Congress; and because the Whigs of the district are well acquainted with th... ...eems to me that on reflection you will see the fact of your having been in Congress has, in various ways, so spread your name in the district as to gi... ...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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...Excerpt: 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, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to...

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...Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White House 98 3.7 . . . and in the Congress 102 4. RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA’S INITIAL ASSAULTS 108 4.1 Before... ...3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information 416 13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 42... ...that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioner... ...n, and how can we avoid such tragedy again? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Att... ...ey Air Force Base Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) NORAD Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis ... ...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,... ...eneral Larry Arnold, commanding general of the First Air Force and NORAD’s Continental Region. Marr sought authorization to scramble the Otis fighters... ...aped conversations at FAA centers; contemporaneous logs compiled at NEADS, Continental Region headquarters, and NORAD; and other records. Yet this res... ...eening System CENTCOM Central Command CIA Central Intelligence Agency CONR Continental U.S. NORAD Region CSG Counterterrorism Security Group CTC Count...

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...confessed later that Marx was in the right. He became a member of the Slav Congress in Prague, where he vainly endeavored to promote a Slav insurrecti... ...t ideas. Originally it was by no means wholly Socialist, but in successive Congresses Marx won it over more and more to his views. At its third Congre... ...le following in French-Switzerland, France, Spain and Italy. At the fourth Congress, held at Basle in September, 1869, two currents were strongly mark... ...tional. The final suppression of Bakunin’s faction occurred at the General Congress of the International at the Hague in 1872. The meeting-place was c... ...ter the war, some such means of expression as it found before in Socialist congresses. By this time Bakunin’s health was broken, and except for a few ... ...h almost single-handed in the British Press has kept creditably abreast of Continental Syndicalism, thus clearly set forth the significance of the Gen...

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...ons of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of 1774. That body recommended certain measures to their constitue... ...heir efforts to pursuade the people to reject the advice of that patriotic Congress. Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority o... ...nd happy they are in reflecting that they did so. They considered that the Congress was composed of many 12 The Federalist Papers wise and experience... ...en induced the people to rely greatly on the judgment and integrity of the Congress; and they took their advice, notwithstanding the various arts and ... ...om it. But if the people at large had reason to confide in the men of that Congress, few of whom had been fully tried or generally known, still greate... ...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... ...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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...s made, it would have been made, ostensibly, to the opinions and wishes of Continental Europe. We expected anything, in short, which would have been w... ...g act; that the journalists, the orators, many lawyers, the Lower House of Congress, and Mr. Lincoln’s own naval secretary, should be told in the face... ...hich that constitution forbids. It does forbid interference by the Federal Congress with slavery in the Slave States; but it does not forbid their abo... ... it as protects the internal legislation of each State from the control of Congress; who aim at abolishing slavery wherever it exists, by force if nee... ...he abolition question will by that time have settled itself. For assuredly Congress will very soon make up its mind to declare all slaves free who bel... ...s would ensure to freedom a decisive and constantly increasing majority in Congress. It 18 The Contest inAmerica would also be right to abrogate that...

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...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. ... ...nd narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now... ...nese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place! Al... ...eech is right. He walks with perfect ease in the capitol, He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Leaves of Grass –Whitm... ...im, The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them, The Congress convenes every Twelfth month for you, Laws, courts, the forming ... ...Nebraska, from Arkansas, Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein’d, All the hands of comrades clasping, all th... ...g and far flowing rivers of China, From the southern peninsulas and the demi continental islands, from Malaysia, These and whatever belongs to them pa... ... marshal again, bring out the government cannon, Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons. This ... ...O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!) Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President? Then I wi...

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...ynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excursions, h... ...ly its bloodstained robes in the solemn atmosphere of Council-rooms, where congresses and conferences sit with closed windows. It would not be exorcis... ...d principles and the historic action for the last hundred years (since the Congress of Vienna) of the Powers concerned, that they were more like cynic... ...ortionate thoughts to the matter in hand, which was the simplest sort of a Continental holiday. And I am certain that my com- panions, near as they ar...

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...ent gave his inau gural address before a joint session of the two Houses of Congress assembled inside the Senate Chamber. FELLOW C ITIZENS OF THE S... ...sident Washington’s second oath of office was taken in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, the date fixed by the Continent... ...e Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, the date fixed by the Continental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen... ... Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, the date fixed by the Continental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet of... ...ll of the House of Representatives in Federal Hall before a joint session of Congress. WHEN IT WA S FIRST PERCEIVED, in early times, that no middl... ...tier in a single day, it was then certainly foreseen by some who assisted in Congress at the formation of it that it could not be durable. Negligence ...

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... the case, none of which, in the common vernacu- lar versions (English and Continental), is at all intelligible. The elements in the case are three: t... ...m Great Britain, its annual bal- ance-sheet, by comparison with those from continental Eu- rope, would show a large excess. At the time of hearing thi... ...of Europe by war upon a colossal scale, and by our councils in the general congresses of Christendom. Such a review would amply justify the traveller’... ...ransfer the trust, that he should rally his enegies in- stantly: for a new Congress was even then assembling. There was no delay open to him by the na...

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...ate should return suppliant, like a prodigal son, kneeling on the floor of Congress, each with a separate rope of humiliation round its neck. Such was... ...t endowed with State govern- ments or a participation in the United States Congress.) “For a time they must, perhaps, lose their full privileges; but ... ...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... ...unt in determining the number of represen- tatives which should be sent to Congress by each State. That number depends on the population but it was de... ...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... ...plished intelligence, Chicago in its internal trade, and Washington in its Congressional and State politics. New York has its literary aspirations, it... ...the most populous State of the Union, having the largest representation in Congress—on which account it has been called the Empire State—I propose to ...

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...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... ...er. On his arrival in Philadelphia he was chosen a member of the Continental Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the ... ..., and, being fortified by their approbation, I ventur’d to lay it before the Congress. It then appeared that several of the commission ers had form’d... ...several colonies, met in their respective assemblies. The debates upon it in Congress went on daily, hand in hand with the Indian business. Many objec... ... 1754 Appointed one of the Commissioners from Pennsyl vania to the Colonial Congress at Albany; proposes a plan for the union of the colonies. 1755 P... ...hosen a delegate to the Sec The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 160 ond Continental Congress; placed on the committee of se cret correspondence;... ...gate to the Sec The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 160 ond Continental Congress; placed on the committee of se cret correspondence; appointed o...

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...of Concord and Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served u... ...lieve, never attended any other institution of learning—have held seats in Congress, and one, if not both, other high offices; these are Wadsworth and... ...omas L. Hamer, one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced, was our member of Congress at the time, and had the right of nomination. He and my father had... ..., infantry and cavalry tac- tics, and conduct. Early in the session of the Congress which met in Decem- ber, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the... ... annexation of Texas was at this time the subject of violent discussion in Congress, in the press, and by indi- viduals. The administration of Preside... ...called. The climate was delightful. Near the close of the short session of Congress of 1844-5, the bill for the annexation of T exas to the United Sta...

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...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... ...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... ...ne or two individual minds, which is the essential charac- teristic of the Continental movement towards the novel of amplitude. While the “Old Wives’ ... ... a precious wilderness of wonderful reading. But if Flaubert is really the Continental emancipator of the novel from the restrictions of form, the mas... ...he present American and French Senators, the French Deputies, the American Congressmen, and the En- glish Members of Parliament would hold their posit... ...e, of its art and feeling, of its religion and purpose. When one speaks of Congressmen or Mem- bers of Parliament one thinks, to be plain about it, of... ...country certainly did postulate a need of universities, and in every state Congress set aside public lands to furnish a university with material resou... ...ocess. T o this place, out of the way of everywhere, come the senators and congressmen, mostly leav- ing their families behind them in their states of...

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...s where their presence was supposed to be inimical to the interests of the Continental Policy. The young man, who was taking the tedium of the early m... ...that he had received an appointment as attache to a plenipotentiary at the Congress of Laybach, he wished to take advantage of the opportunity to make... ...ing of which, as yet, you have not thought at all.” “What is it?” “Why—the Congress is over.” “Well,” she said, “and ought you to have been at the Con...

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...uave breeches and a fez, a few narghilehs and a sprinkling of the ordinary continental shopboys. – In the evening I tried one more walk in Syra with A... ...e and America – practically the whole scientific world – at the Electrical Congress in Paris in the years 1882 and 1884. An important paper of thirty ...

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...Mine at least, weary nobody; which is more than can be always said for the continental versions. On a night in the year 1592, (but which night is a se... ...rely martial series of portraits, or any gallery of statesmen assembled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals,... ...s of wars, it will become possible to erect a real Ar- eopagus, or central congress for all Christendom, not with any commission to suppress wars,—a p... ...ion that the mere delay, involved in the waiting for the solemn opinion of congress, would always be friendly to pacific councils. But would the belli... ...nations to deal with as they please, there is a tolerable certainty that a congress sincerely pacific would cut it up by the roots. It is a cause noti... ...spontaneously arise. Now, this cause of war could and would be healed by a congress, and through an easy reform in European diplo- macy.* *One great n...

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...formances in it, they seem to regard it as the culminating flower of their continental Republic—as though the Old World had never heard of shoddy. But... ...aracteristically Anglo-Saxon method of appointing its rep- resentatives in Congress. It is not only in political institu- tions that the method may be... ...each State may or may not be to the American heart. But the possibility of Congress delegating the power to appoint additional Senators to certain non...

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...before. Judging from the kind of men sent to the State legislatures and to Congress, the fact that certain things are forbidden does not mean that the... ...k. In spite of the professions often made, most men have a poor opinion of congressmen and legislators, and feel that their own con- science is a much... ...y started out with an equipment no better. These may be busi- ness men and congressmen and deacons in the church. While we do not know and cannot know... ...ts treatment is studied the less faith men have in punishment. England and Continental Europe are often pointed to as examples of sure and speedy just...

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...nker’s son, and sat down to consider the Governor’s son and the son of the Congressman. CHAPTER VI IT WERE A WEARINESS TO FOLLOW in detail the le... ...d the pork butcher’s heir—right again, and sound. Next, we turned down the Congressman’s son and the Governor’s— right as a trivet, I confess it. Next... ..., and railway official, and manu facturer, and capitalist, and Mayor, and Congressman, and Governor, and editor, and publisher, and author, and bro ... ... yet a joke—I had framed a humble and beseeching and perfervid petition to Congress begging the government to built the monument, as a testimony of th... ...lineage call for it once more, and once more it issues from some London or Continental or American press, and runs a new course around the globe, waft... ... marks, and say with a solemn joy, “It’s me!” Have you ever seen a country Congressman enter the ho tel breakfast room in Washington with his letters...

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... 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... ...persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importance which, p... ...fferent people, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under tho... ...le, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under those five hund... ...han two millions of people, and, according to the accounts laid before the congress, the twelve associated provinces of America contain more than thre...

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...re the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, th... ... to produce that movement and war: reproaches for the nonobservance of the Continental System, the Duke of Oldenburg’s wrongs, the movement of troops ... ...e great points and with tranquility ev- erywhere, I too should have had my Congress and my Holy Alliance. Those ideas were stolen from me. In that reu...