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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 14: fire-department. (search)
The ninth section provides that the act establishing the fire-department shall not take effect until it is accepted and approved by the inhabitants of the town. It was approved by the town, and the present fire-department organized in due form. March 7, 1842: The chief engineer made his first annual report. Large cisterns, sunk in the ground in various parts of the town, are filled with water, to be used only in case of fire. These reservoirs were ordered by a vote of the town, Nov. 6, 1850. Every provision of hose, fire-hooks, ladders, &c., which the department required, was made by the town. In 1840 was published a pamphlet, entitled State Laws and Town Ordinances respecting the Fire Department of the Town of Medford. It contained the act of the General Court of April 9, 1839; also the act of April 17, 1837, to prevent bonfires, and false alarms of fire; also extracts from the Revised Statutes, chapter 18; also an ordinance for preventing and extinguishing fires, an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire. (search)
nd established a temporary government to last during the war. On June 12, 1781, a convention framed a State constitution, which, after numerous alterations, went into force June 2, 1784. The constitution provided that once in seven years it State seal of New Hampshire. should be submitted to a vote of the people on proposed amendments. This was done in September, 1791, and the constitution then adopted continues to be the supreme law of the State. A convention sitting in Concord from Nov. 6, 1850, to April 17, 1851, considered numerous proposed amendments, but only one was adopted—namely, removing the property qualifications of representatives. The aggregate number of troops furnished by New Hampshire for the National army during the Civil War was 34,605, of whom 5,518 perished in battle, and 11,039 were disabled by wounds and sickness. Population in 1890, 376,530; in 1900, 411,588 See United States, New Hampshire, in vol. IX. Governors. Mesheck Weareassumes office1775 Jo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schurz, Carl (search)
Schurz, Carl Military officer; born near Cologne, Germany, March 2, 1829; studied at the Gymnasium at Cologne and at the University of Bonn; with other students engaged in the revolutionary movements in 1848; joined Gottfried Kinkel in publishing a liberal newspaper; and, after the failure of an attempt at insurrection at Bonn (1849) both were compelled to fly. Schurz made his way to Switzerland. On the night of Nov. 6, 1850, he rescued Kinkel from the fortress of Spandau, escaped to the sea, and took passage in a schooner for Leith. Thence Schurz went to Paris; thence to London, in 1851, where he was a teacher until the summer of 1852, when he came to the United States, landing at Philadelphia. There he remained three years, and then settled at Madison, Wis. In the Presidential campaign of 1856 he became a noted German orator, and in 1858 began to make public speeches in English. He soon afterwards became a lawyer at Milwaukee, and, in the winter of 1859-60 was recognized as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Talcott, George 1786-1862 (search)
Talcott, George 1786-1862 Military officer; born in Glastonbury, Conn., Dec. 6, 1786; joined the army in 1813; promoted first lieutenant in March, 1814; served through the Mexican War, being promoted colonel and chief of ordnance in March, 1848. On Nov. 6, 1850, he sent a letter without the knowledge of the Secretary of War to Colonel Huger, commandant of the arsenal at Fort Monroe, respecting the purchase of ammunition, on the receipt of which Colonel Huger made a contract to buy a large quantity of shot and shell. When this fact became known to the War Department Talcott was court-martialled, found guilty, and forced to retire on July 8, 1851. Many prominent men declared the sentence unjust and illegal, and attempts were made to reinstate him, but without success. Hon. John C. Spencer wrote a Review of the trial to prove the error of the judgment. Talcott died in Albany, N. Y., April 25, 1862.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
e to Newport, a note of explanation, expressing gratitude for the chivalrous and zealous advocacy of his brother, but at the same time embarrassment in maintaining relations of intercourse with one so pronounced in hostility to his section,—referring to Sumner's avowed purpose to exclude in his region the class to which he [Slidell] belonged from the courtesies of social life and the common rites of humanity. This was probably an allusion to Sumner's widely read speech at Fanueil Hall of Nov. 6, 1850, wherein he invoked a public opinion which should prevent any slave-hunter from ever setting foot in the Commonwealth. In this letter, however, Slidell expressed himself satisfied with some explanation which had been communicated to him; and the two Senators, for a considerable time afterwards, maintained agreeable personal relations with each other. In the early part of the year, Sumner stated the political relations of Slavery in the United States in a communication to the Boston Ad
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
saffection towards him among leading Whigs of the North, particularly of Massachusetts, is very strong. To me his present position seems deplorable. With all his majestic powers, he is a traitor to a holy cause. Franklin Dexter says strongly that he has deliberately committed a crime. To John Jay, May 13:— I am sick at heart when I observe the apostasies to freedom. There is one thing needful in our public men,—backbone. See emphatic repetition of this term in the speech of Nov. 6, 1850. Works, vol. II. p. 422. In this is comprised that moral firmness, without which they yield to the pressure of interests of party, of fashion, of public opinion. . . . . In reading the life of wilberforce, I was pleased to follow the references to your grandfather, who seems to have seen much of the great abolitionist. To Lord Morpeth, May 21:— The same steamer that takes this note will carry our friend Prescott to see and enjoy English life. In long gossips together, recentl<