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...LLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, May 15, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Cumberland, Virginia: Y our long despatch of yesterday is just received. I will answer ... ...ral McDowell is in position on your right, his supplies must be drawn from West Point, and you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to sup... ...S. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 1.30 P.M. COLONEL MILES, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether e... .... WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 7.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL FREMONT, Franklin, Virginia: Many thanks for the promptness with which you have answered that ... ...see how, lacking that, you can have any, except the scrap from Richmond to West Point. The scrap of the Virginia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junc... ...tion, remembering that our object is to give such protection as you can to western 45 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six Virginia. Many thanks... ...nes- see, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia except the fol- lowing counties-Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Prest... ...hat the enrolled militia alone would now maintain law and order in all the counties of your State north of the Missouri River. If so all other forces ... ...and Governor Gamble telegraphs me; that quiet can be maintained in all the counties north of the Missouri River by the enrolled militia. Confer with G...

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...and Duffle got considerable advantage of the enemy at and about Lewisburg, Virginia: and on Saturday, the seventh, Meade drove the enemy from Rappahan... ... EXECUTIVE MAN- SION, 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 ... ... or other civil obligation on the ground of alienage. In common with other Western powers, our relations with Japan have been brought into serious jeo... ...o that of establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, a... ...to me as directed a day or two ago, also send Edwin C. Claybrook, of Ninth Virginia rebel cavalry. A. LINCOLN. 54 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ... ...atriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the subject. A.... ...r at most Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in pa... ... different wards, towns, town- ships, precincts, or election districts, or counties, will be made known through the Provost Marshal-General’s Bureau, ... ...omplaints are coming to me of disturbances in Canoll, Platte, and Buchanan counties. Please ascertain the truth, correct what is found wrong, and te...

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...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...y any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsyl... ...treets which are really inhabited cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the C... ...n. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance with the points of ... ..., perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country- house called Arlington Heig... ...the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they... ... that this is not as though certain aristocratic families in a few English counties should find themselves divided off from the politics and national ... ...t courts, the districts or States having been grouped into circuits as the counties are grouped with us. To each of these circuits is assigned one of ...

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...be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Buchanan. Fremont. Fillmore. Bond ................ ...u to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get the encour- agement of our folks nominating ... ...u, to run Douglas Republican for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get the en- couragement of our folks nominating ... ...ty-four. In the Old Dominion—in the Demo- cratic and aristocratic State of Virginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in Ne... ...w Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserved by the Ordi- nance of 1787,... ...vision and allowing them to have slaves. A report made by Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, himself a slaveholder, was directly against it, and the action wa... ...essed that idea. That same idea was expressed by the Richmond Enquirer, in Virginia, in 1856,—quite two years before it was expressed by the first of ... ..., that barrier. Come down again to our State of Illinois. The great North- west T erritory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin... ... better remain in Chicago, with such a chance for copartnership. If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas, to Leavenworth or Atchison. Both of the...

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...cracy in America had ordained and established throughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of ... ... the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville sa... ... the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular si... ...us that these very tribes *We learn from President Jefferson’s “Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior for... ...ctions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190. What is said by Jefferson is of especial weight, on... ...w World. *i The Europeans *We learn from President Jefferson’s “Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior for... ...e reader the general principles on which the political organization of the counties and town- ships of the United States rests, I have thought it expe... ...ical notions on the nature of his duties and the extent of his rights. The Counties of New England The division of the countries in America has consid... ...able analogy with that of the arrondissements of France. The limits of the counties are arbitrarily laid down, and the various dis- tricts which they ...

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...ck with a handful of red flowers. ‘Aren’t they pretty?’ she said. ‘They’re Virginia stock.’ 25 Rudyard Kipling ‘Virginia?’ said the lady, and lifted ... ... the lady, and lifted them to the fringe of her mask. ‘Yes. They come from Virginia. Did your maid ever plant any?’ ‘Not herself—but her men adventure... ... as Elizabeth played with Philip, I would have—’ She nipped off one of the Virginia stocks and held it up between finger and thumb. ‘But for all that’... ...ly.) ‘Listen here! Philip will prepare for Gloriana a destruction from the West—a destruction from the West—far exceeding that which Pedro de Avila wr... ...been.’ She moved slowly across a bar of sunlight. ‘ A destruction from the West may signify that Philip means to descend on Ireland. But then my Irish... ...was so old he could remember when railways were being made in the southern counties of England, and people were allowed to drive dogs in carts. One ho... ...E WEALD is good, the Downs are best— I’ll give you the run of ‘em, East to West. Beachy Head and Winddoor Hill, They were once and they are still. Fir...

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...historian thus puts in antithesis. Abraham Lincoln, the rail-splitter, the Western country lawyer, was one of the shrewdest and most en- 6 The Writin... ... characteristic of the time and the impatiently enterprising spirit of the Western people. Lincoln, no doubt with the best intentions, but with little... ...ence; it was true moral valor, too; for at that time, in many parts of the West, an abolitionist was regarded as little better than a horse-thief, and... ...ty with those who knew him was manifest. The district consisted of several counties, but the unanimous vote of the people of his own county was for Li... ...ock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period their importation had continued. ... ...l justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally to the standard of freedom which he... ...s in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by inaction and disasters in Virginia, only partially redeemed by the bloody and indecisive battle of An... ...the manner in which they will be cast. (6) When we have heard from all the counties, we shall be able to tell with similar accuracy the political comp... ...“The augmented population of the State, the multiplied number of organized counties, as well as the increase of business in all, has long since convin...

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...y and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through it fro... ... the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall arise from the Western conti- nent, his verse will be enriched, his pages sing spontane-... ... and how it was because of his desistance that she was now travelling to the West. Then, when I was thus put in possession of the facts, she asked my ... ...tates of the North had sent out a fugitive to cross the plains with me. From Virginia, from Pennsylvania, from New York, from far western Iowa and Kan... ...le’s jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distan...

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..., and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Presley drew near to t... ...in whatever fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hard... ...her, welded and riven together in one single, mighty song, the Song of the West. That was what he dreamed, while things without names—thoughts for 9 ... ...s supper was over, the floor was cleared again. The guests clamoured for a Virginia reel. The last quarter of the evening, the time of the most riotou... ...can woman by the door and hustled her, all confused and giggling, into the Virginia reel, then at its height. Every one crowded around to see. Old Bro... ...ncers on the floor of the barn, frolicking through the last figures of the Virginia reel and the boisterous gathering of men in the harness room, down... ...t seemed as if all the colour which should have gone to vivify the various counties, towns, and cities marked upon it had been absorbed by that huge, ... ...of the death rattles of little enterprises, expiring unobserved in far-off counties, up in canyons and arroyos of the foothills, forgotten by every on... ...hat do we men who backed you care about rates up in Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties? Not a whoop in hell. It was the San Joaquin rate we were fighting...

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...ateaux, terraces with gray balustrades, moss-grown walls draped in scarlet Virginia-creeper. You turn into the town again beside a great military barr... ... upper.” The allusion to the nave means the omission of the transepts. The west front consists of two vast but imperfect towers; one of which (the sou... ...th centuries, is a suffi- ciently honorable church; the more that its high west front, adorned with a very primitive Gothic portal, sup- ports two ele... ... France tecture at Nantes except the domestic. The cathedral, with a rough west front and stunted towers, makes no impression as you approach it. It i... ...gateway that is still impos- ing, and in which a clambering vine and a red Virginia- creeper were suspended to the rusty walls of brick stone. The mos... ...ple of very ancient towers, brownish-yellow in hue, and mantled in scarlet Virginia-creeper. One of these towers, reputed to be of Saracenic origin, i... ...called itself sovereign of a territory, or at least of scattered towns and counties, with which its present aspect is gro- tesquely out of relation. T...

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...s the Stelletto of Spain, The Blood red Rook from Turkey, The Waskite from Virginia: And there is of short winged Hawks, The Eagle and Iron The Goshaw... ...ed calmness and clearness. And Camden tells us of a well near to Kirby, in Westmoreland, that ebbs and flows several times every day: and he tells us ... ...e wind is south, It blows your bait into a fish’s mouth. Next to that, the west wind is believed to be the best: and having told you that the east win... ...acts of love: The Compleat Angler — Walton 84 Or, on that bank, feel the west wind Breathe health and plenty: please my mind, To see sweet dew drops... ...s no better Salmon than in En gland; and that though some of our northern counties have as fat, and as large, as the river Thames, yet none are of so... ... soft, and full of whitish guts; a worm that is, in Norfolk and some other counties, called a grub; and is bred of the spawn or eggs of a beetle, whic... ... or Case worms, that are to be found in this na tion, in several distinct counties, in several little brooks that relate to bigger rivers; as namely,...

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...as smaller, less commodious and less substantial—the cabins erected in the western states by the first settlers. T o my child’s eye, how- ever, it was... ...pted to promote the comforts and conveniences of its inmates. A few rough, Virginia fence-rails, flung loosely over the rafters above, an- swered the ... ...s, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-west- ern states of the American union. The argument in favor of this opini... ... Lloyd’s plantation, as destitute of clothing as any little heathen on the west coast of Africa; and this, not merely during the summer months, but du... ...old and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters! The ... ...vice of a master. On the other hand, by taking the land route, through the counties adjoining Delaware, we should be subjected to all manner of interr... ...ible. They are mere hucksters of the surplus slave produce of Maryland and Virginia coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies, whose very breathing is of ...

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...even o’clock, or thereabouts; when the captain comes down again, in a sou’ wester hat tied under his chin, and a pilot coat: making the ground wet whe... ..., and so gravely presented on a small scale, that it was like look ing at Westminster through the wrong end of a tele scope. The governor, as her Ma... ...orded me. * * * * * * To an Englishman, accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose,... ...mpany, in a new chapter. CHAPTER IX —A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL... ...ng away; the sheds are patched and half roofless; the log cabins (built in Virginia with external chimneys made of clay or wood) are squalid in the la... ...he Legislative Hall of the Territory. Meetings have been held in different counties of Wisconsin, denouncing the practice of secretly bearing arms in...

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...ain of inspired truth every where sealed up; but a whisper ran through the western nations of Europe that the work of Tho- mas à Kempis contained some... ...h regarded my sister’s memory, in one hour I received a new heart. Once in Westmoreland I saw a case resembling it. I saw a ewe suddenly put off and a... ...cribed in the following lines:— “Such thou art as when The woodman winding westward up the glen 41 Autobiographic Sketches At wintry dawn, when o’e... ...est,—Connaught beyond other provinces, and in Connaught, Mayo beyond other counties. There it was, and in the county next adjoining, that Lord Altamon... ...ed that she is the person de- scribed by Miss Edgeworth, under the name of Virginia, in the latter part of her “Belinda.” How that may be, I cannot pr... ... and the same docility to any chance impres- sions, which characterize the Virginia of Miss Edgeworth. She was a reputed daughter (as I have said) of ... ...d, having succeeded, it would have laid open to the rebels the impor- tant counties of Waterford and Kilkenny. Being delayed un- til the 5th of June, ... ...ike a heath, a breezy down, (such as gave so peculiar a char- acter to the counties of Wilts, Somerset, Dorset, &c.,) or even a village common. Heaths...

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...ueezed my hand and whispered to me that I was to be Major of a regiment in Virginia—the very thing: for you see, my dear, I didn’t care about joining ... ...ond the sea; and, as the fashion then was, sold the use of their bodies to Virginian planters during that space of time. It is thus, alas! that the st... ...s an accomplice in another case of robbery; and when, on their return from Virginia, our two heroes, whose hopes of livelihood depended upon it, had b... ...od, and they two together committed many atrocious robberies in the inland counties; but these being too hot to hold them, they went into the west, wh... ... inland counties; but these being too hot to hold them, they went into the west, where they were unknown. Here, how- ever, the day of retribution arri... ...a very cheerful place for a love-tryst) at St. Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey. Of this, no doubt, Cat was thinking; but what could she ... ...ully, by that hour, had found her way to Saint Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey, where she awaited Monsieur de Galgenstein. The spot was ...

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...ed to the fact that some of the ancestors of President Garfield settled at Weston, not many miles from Concord, and that the name is still borne by dw... ... a tablet which he had about him, the name of a hall in one of the midland counties of England. “Ah, that old place,” said he, “with its oaks, and its... ...him. Septimius had often, at a certain space of time after sunset, looking west ward, seen a living radiance in the sky,—the last light of the dead d... ...tear it into a thousand fragments, and scatter it out of the window to the west wind, that was then blowing past the house; and if, in that summer sea... ..., filling the pleasant western breeze with the fragrance of some excellent Virginia. He came slowly along, and Septimius, slackening his pace a little... ...that I know well, and have known from my childhood, in one of the northern counties of En gland, where I was born. Would you like to hear it, Rose?” ...

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.... It lies among those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn t... ...tion was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga. The whole country was then a wi... ... part of the United States to denote a traineau. It is of local use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The... ...ved as a soldier with reputation. On one occasion, while in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians... ...among the low- est of his judicial contemporaries in the courts of the new counties, felt himself, and was unanimously acknowledged to be, among the f... ...he crown’, manorial rights being often granted with the soil, in the older counties the word “manor” is frequently used. There are many manors in New ... ... in many of the native dialects. Thus we find Rappahannock as far south as Virginia. 127 James Fenimore Cooper jury you have received from Judge T em... ...e had filled the honorable station of sergeant-major to a dashing corps of Virginia cav- alry through much of the recent war. Another of these skeptic...

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...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- enues—north, east, south, and west. Y et here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the ne... ...ht he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, thi... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, con- trasting climates, zone by ... ...iness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, ... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand... ...n, the only true lamp—all others but liars! Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor...

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...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a wh... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the nee... ...ght he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, thi... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zo... ...iness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, ... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow white chapels, whose spires stand... ... the only true lamp — all others but liars! Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor...

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...chitec- ture. Sam Clark’s annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebu... ...s about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which... ...alked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washi... ...d to get out of the motor ‘bus that I decided to be Annie Oakley, the Wild Western Wampire, and I bought oh! a vociferous skirt which revealed my perf... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ...prettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily in- terested in getting up a Virginia Reel. Without seeming 261 Sinclair Lewis to watch Kennicott, she ... ...tan Apollo nameless and evasive—building a house in the Berk- shires or in Virginia; exuberantly buying a chair with his first check; reading poetry t...

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...oom. They are like long, narrow, high-ceiled bird-cages hung against the building. My room was a corner room, and had two of these things, a north one... ...e rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes and dams far below, in the gorge. I got up and went in... ...l over, too. The door was standing half open, and at last one old jay happened to go and light on it and look in. Of course, that knocked the mystery ... ...ecipices. The view, look- ing sheer down into the broad valley, eastward, from this great elevation—almost a perpendicular mile—was very quaint and cu... ...k, from style. Baltimore. Hot buckwheat cakes. Prairie-hens, from Illinois. American toast. Clear maple Mis- souri partridges, broiled. syrup. Possum....

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...d the authority I had for the story of the romance:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor, anciently belonging (as a ... ... basely. You have gallants among you, I dare undertake, that have made the Virginia voyage, or taken a turn in the Low Countries at least. Come, cudge... ...years; who has seen the sun set where it rises, and has travelled till the west has become the east.” “Thou hast brought back one traveller’s gift wit... ...t ensample be T o those the cup that trowl. For when the sun hath left the west, He chooses the tree that he loves the best, And he whoops out his son... ... reader with unnecessary particulars, they traversed without adventure the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset, and about noon of the third day after T... ...all, he himself em- 464 Kenilworth barked with his friend Raleigh for the Virginia expedition, and, young in years but old in grief, died before his ...

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................................................. 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST.......................................................................... ...hom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial town in the west of England. He was seated on a horsehair-cov- ered chair in the middle... ...e added another, which was natural enough though perhaps not noble. “These western cocks have crowed loudly,” we said; “too loudly for the comfort of ... ...nds a year; but they are, I believe, allowed to practice as lawyers in any counties except those in which they sit as judges—being guided, in this res... ... Trollope Ireland. The assistant barristers in Ireland are attached to the counties as judges at Quarter Sessions, but they prac- tice, or may practic... ...uarter Sessions, but they prac- tice, or may practice, as advocates in all counties except that to which they are so attached. The judges in New Hamps... ...t the North will also claim Maryland and Delaware, and the eastern half of Virginia. The North will claim them, though they are attached to the South ... ...n in the great social institution of slavery—for Maryland, Dela- ware, and Virginia are slave States—and I think that the North will ultimately make g... ...im. Maryland and Delaware lie, as it were, behind the capital, and Eastern Virginia is close upon the capital. And these regions are not tropical in t...

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... Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log-h...

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...lative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From... ...as cended by white men in 1804. It was visited by Professor J. W. Bailey of West Point in 1836; by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, the State Geologist, in 18... ...g, perhaps, on all accounts, than they would reach by going a thousand miles westward. The next forenoon, Tuesday, September 1st, I started with my co... ...which we were, was larger than the whole State of Vermont, with its fourteen counties; and this was only a part of the wild lands of Maine. We are con... ...e surface. Afterwards, the prevailing fences were log ones, with sometimes a Virginia fence, or else rails slanted over crossed stakes, — and these zi... ...mericana (marsh pennywort), Sanicula Canadensis? (black snake root),Clematis Virginiana? (common virgin’s bower), Nasturtium palustre (marsh cress), R... ...ylus rostrata (beaked hazel nut), Diervilla trifida (bush honeysuckle),Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry),Myrica gale (sweet gale), Nemopanthes Canadensi...

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...ere are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Texas, and the Virginia elec- tors. They are growing sick of the Tariff question; and 5 T... ...r proposed stipulation that all the candi- dates shall remain in their own counties, and restrain their friends in the same it seems to me that on ref... ...ropose to retain in your new plan. If we take the entire population of the counties as shown by the late census, we shall see by the old plan, and by ... ...has but ……… 1 “ And so on in a less degree the matter runs through all the counties, being not only wrong in principle, but the advantage of it being ... ... and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether... ...w in a great measure superseded by what had fallen from the gentleman from Virginia who had just taken his seat. He begged to assure his friends on th... ...man in poli- tics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power... ... those who, conceding all this to be true, assume the ground that the true western boundary of Texas is the Nueces, instead of the Rio Grande; and tha... ...all included in the following propositions (1) That the Rio Grande was the western boundary of Loui- siana as we purchased it of France in 1803. (2) T...

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...pping wet in the evening. We hardly exchang’d a civil word afterwards, and a West India captain, who had a com mission to procure a tutor for the son... ...w years after, much lamented, being the best of our set. Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an emi nent lawyer and made money, but died... ...would promote me by sending me with a cargo of flour and bread, etc., to the West Indies, and procure me commissions from others which would be profit... ... continue inimical proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster general, being dissatisfied with the con d... ...ents of regular English troops for that purpose. He landed at Alexandria, in Virginia, and thence march’d to Frederictown, in Maryland, where he halte... ...tly for the return of those he had sent thro’ the back parts of Maryland and Virginia to collect waggons. I stayed with him several days, din’d with h... ...and county. “B. FRANKLIN.” “To the inhabitants of the Counties of Lancaster, York and Cumberland. “Friends and Countr... ...that purpose. “It was proposed to send an armed force immediately into these counties, to seize as many of the best carriages and horses as should be ... ... of them. “I apprehended that the progress of British soldiers through these counties on such an occasion, especially con sidering the temper they ar...

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...in some parts of the coast of India; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leathe... ...ndia; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and ... ... at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the 50 The Wealth o... ... very nearly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Through the greater part of the Low country, the most usua... ...ght pence a-day; tenpence, some- times a shilling, about Edinburgh, in the counties which border upon England, probably on account of that neighbourho... ...ake of self defence. It is not more than fifty years ago, that some of the counties in the neighbourhood of Lon- don petitioned the parliament against... ... parliament against the extension of the turn- pike roads into the remoter counties. Those remoter counties, they pretended, from the cheapness of lab... ...It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twen... ... of justice in these countries, more regular returns might be expected. In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is pre- ferred, as most p...

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...s upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very well, a... ... interests wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterest... ...g heroes consider they are preparing for a possible conflict in England or Western Europe, and I pre- sume the authorities are satisfied with them. It... ...an aeroplane at Hendon and soar about counting all the golfers in the Home Counties on any week-day afternoon. “You suffer at the roots of things, far... ...d feet. Even the highly feudal slave-holding “county family” traditions of Virginia and the South pass now out of memory. So that in a very real sense... ...sunny and enervating place through the negligently cultivated coun- try of Virginia, and one discovers the slovenly, unfinished promise of a city, bro...

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... I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage,...

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...sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in th... ...ht, and I received orders to call the captain if the wind came out from the westward. About midnight the wind became fair, and having called the capt... ...Mar, of New York, and the brig Mermaid, of Boston. They were both steering westward, and were bound in for our ‘‘dear native land.’’ Thursday, ... ...ights and measures; then the states of the union, with their capitals; the counties of England, with their shire towns; the kings of England in thei... ...n from all parts of the Union I met with; where New England, the Carolinas, Virginia, and the new West sat side by side with English, French, and Ger...

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...ned the scale, and a feather did turn it. A missionary re- turned from the West Indies; he was to be presented to the Dissenters’ Missionary Society o... ... leading thor- 61 Charles Dickens oughfares: peep through the window of a west- end cigar shop in the evening, if you can manage to get a glimpse bet... ...d; the boat is immediately turned com- pletely round, and proceeds towards Westminster-bridge, amidst such a splashing and struggling as never was see... ...en, and an aged countenance, and he bears the name of one of the En- glish counties, if we recollect right. He sang a very good song about the seven a... ...oat and bright buttons, like the pictures of Paul—not the saint, but he of Virginia notoriety. The remainder of the commit- tee, dressed in white hats... ...ens ming, the captain began the following duet from the opera of ‘Paul and Virginia,’ in that grunting tone in which a man gets down, Heaven knows whe...

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...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ...unity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be re- turned and which was returned without note or ... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ...to look over the title of a very considerable estate in one of the eastern counties—lying, in fact, for Mr Merdle knew we lawyers loved to be particu-... ... we lawyers loved to be particu- lar, on the borders of two of the eastern counties. Now, the title was perfectly sound, and the estate was to be purc...

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...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ...unity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be re- turned and which was returned without note or ... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitr... ...to look over the title of a very considerable estate in one of the eastern counties—lying, in fact, for Mr Merdle knew we lawyers loved to be particu-... ... we lawyers loved to be particu- lar, on the borders of two of the eastern counties. Now, the title was perfectly sound, and the estate was to be purc...