...OHN STUART MILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsy... ... UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...zed world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that ... ...ar would soon have buried its causes in oblivion. When the new Confederate States, made an in dependent Power by English help, had begun their crusad... ...interpretation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de ny... ...umiliating act; that the journalists, the orators, many lawyers, the Lower House of Congress, and Mr. Lincoln’s own naval secretary, should be told in... ...f their number, in the estimate of the population for fixing the number of representatives of each State in the Lower House of Congress. Why should th... ... of each State in the Lower House of Congress. Why should the masters have members in right of their human chattels, any more than of their oxen and p... ...ady pro posed that this salutary reform should be effected in the case of Maryland, additional territory, detached from Virginia, being given to that...

...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not b...

...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...man’s death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to... ...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... ...vice in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connec tion with the relation... ...tal Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French socie... ...utobiography of Benjamin Franklin 38 and Russel, masters of an iron work in Maryland, had engag’d the great cabin; so that Ralph and I were forced to... ...ry of the Province, Isaac Pearson, Joseph Cooper, and several of the Smiths, members of Assembly, and Isaac Decow, the surveyor general. The latter w... ...nted and supported by the crown, and a grand council was to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the several colonies, met in their respe...

...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...