Portrait and Biographical Album of Osceola CountyChapman., 1884 - 422 pages |
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... June 19 , but upon the express condition that he receive no salary . He would keep an exact account of expenses and expect Congress to pay them and nothing more . It is not the object of this sketch to trace the military acts of ...
... June 19 , but upon the express condition that he receive no salary . He would keep an exact account of expenses and expect Congress to pay them and nothing more . It is not the object of this sketch to trace the military acts of ...
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... June 11 , to prepare a declaration of inde- pendence . This article was drawn by Jefferson , but on Adams devolved the task of battling it through Congress in a three days debate . 6 On the day after the Declaration of Independence was ...
... June 11 , to prepare a declaration of inde- pendence . This article was drawn by Jefferson , but on Adams devolved the task of battling it through Congress in a three days debate . 6 On the day after the Declaration of Independence was ...
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... June 17 , 1779. In September of the same year he was again chosen to go to Paris , and there hold himself in readi- ness to negotiate a treaty of peace and of commerce with Great Britian , as soon as the British Cabinet might be found ...
... June 17 , 1779. In September of the same year he was again chosen to go to Paris , and there hold himself in readi- ness to negotiate a treaty of peace and of commerce with Great Britian , as soon as the British Cabinet might be found ...
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... Con- gress . On June 28 , a few slight changes were made in it by Congress , and it was passed and signed July 4 , 1776. What must have been the feelings of that 28 man - what the emotions that swelled his breast-. VXN.
... Con- gress . On June 28 , a few slight changes were made in it by Congress , and it was passed and signed July 4 , 1776. What must have been the feelings of that 28 man - what the emotions that swelled his breast-. VXN.
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... June 28 , 1836. The name of James Madison is inseparably con- nected with most of the important events in that heroic period of our country during which the founda- tions of this great republic were laid . He was the last of the ...
... June 28 , 1836. The name of James Madison is inseparably con- nected with most of the important events in that heroic period of our country during which the founda- tions of this great republic were laid . He was the last of the ...
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Page 27 - July; and at the same time, it was voted that a committee be appointed to prepare a Declaration to the effect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
Page 23 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Page 24 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not.
Page 47 - Republican party was then at its height. Mr. Van Buren was from the beginning a politician. He had, perhaps, imbibed that spirit while listening to the many discussions which had been carried on in his father's hotel. He was in cordial sympathy with Jefferson, and earnestly and eloquently espoused the cause of State Rights ; though at that time the Federal party held the supremacy both in his town and State. His success and increasing ruputation led him after six years of practice, to remove to Hudson,...
Page 353 - All these works, though many of them costly in the extreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and characters of those whose memory they were intended to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of the people that then lived. The great pyramids and . some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crumbling into dust.
Page 99 - Lemmon, of Virginia, went to New York with his slaves, intending to ship them to Texas, when they were discovered and freed. The Judge decided that they could not be held by the owner under the Fugitive Slave Law. A howl of rage went up from the South, and the Virginia Legislature authorized the Attorney General of that State to assist in an appeal.
Page 44 - ... would fight those who endeavored to spare their lives. From ten in the morning until dark, the battle raged. The carnage was awful and revolting. Some threw themselves into the river; but the unerring bullet struck their heads as they swam. Nearly everyone of the nine hundred warrios were killed A few probably, in the night, swam the river and escaped.
Page 56 - The land was filled with murmurs and vituperation. Whigs and Democrats alike assailed him. More and more, however, he brought himself into sympathy with his old friends, the Democrats, until at the close of his term, he gave his whole influence to the support of Mr. Polk, the Democratic candidate for his successor. On the 4th of March, 1845, he retired from the harassments of office, to the regret of neither party, and probably to his own unspeakable relief. His first wife, Miss Letitia Christian,...
Page 23 - school of affliction," from which he endeavored to gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the study of law. For this purpose he placed himself under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He had thought seriously of the clerical profession but seems to have been turned from this by what he termed " the frightful engines of ecclesiastical counjils, of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature,'' of the operations of which he had been a witness in his native town.
Page 238 - In 1824 he was elected a member of the lower house of the Legislature from his county, and was continued by successive elections for five years.