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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
avery in the United States, 344 Progress of the United States, 438 Project for a railroad to the Pacific, 146 Projection for regulating the value of Gold and silver Coins, a, 426 Project of a national railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, 146 Prometheus, 461 Prometheus bound, 465 Promised land, 420 Promises of political economy, the, 442 Property and contract, 442 Proportional representation, 361 Proposals for traffic and Commerce, 427 Proposals relating to the ers, W. L., 176 Saunterings, 123 Say, J. B., 431 Sayers, Joseph, 344 Scarecrow, the, 277 Scar-faced Charley, 160 Scarlet letter, the, 291, 582 Scenes and adventures in army life, 143 Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the Pacific ocean, 135 Schaff, Philip, 206, 207, 587 Schafmeyer, A., 582 Schelling, 227, 228, 245 Scheme . . . to encourage raising of Hemp, 426 Schiller, 460 Schley, Winfield S., 169 Schlozer, 577 Schluter, Herman, 600 Schnauffer, K. H
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
eemen of the slaves in the District of Columbia; established by law a policy of emancipation from which no retreat was possible; gave hope to the colored race in the recognition of Hayti and Liberia; struck the final blow at the African slave-trade. It created a system of internal revenue unknown to the country for more than a generation; secured to actual settlers free homesteads on the public ___domain; added a department of agriculture to the national system; authorized a railway to the Pacific Ocean, thus to clasp the continent with iron bands; affixed penalties to crimes against the nation, but freely offered pardon and amnesty. In the midst of extraordinary responsibilities, it did not neglect the duties of routine legislation. Whoever shall hereafter study its record will pass lightly over the personal bickerings which come up here and there in the debates, while he contemplates the grand result so creditable to its authors and so fruitful of benefit to mankind. Sumner was a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
aymr.Connecticut; Saginaw.Special Service; North Pacific.Apr. 25. 1866.Hon. discharged.Actg. Asst.carora; Mohongo.West Gulf; North Atlantic; South Pacific; North Pacific.Oct. 11, 1867.Hon. dischargNorth Pacific.Oct. 11, 1867.Hon. discharged.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Aug. 9, 1864.Actg. Master. Sept. 5, 1865.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Arey, Thomas Sasset; Vanderbilt; Saranac.North Atlantic; North Pacific.Sept. 18, 1868.Hon. discharged.Actg. 3d Ate.Arthur; Aroostook. Powhatan.West Gulf. South Pacific.Aug. 2, 1868.Hon. discharged.Mate. Bemis,ncook; Nausett. Tuscarora.North Atlantic. South Pacific.Mar. 9, 1868.Hon. discharged.Actg. 3d Asse.Massachusetts; Tuscarora.Supply Steamer; South Pacific.Mar. 9, 1868.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign.ceola; Powhatan.West Gulf; North Atlantic; South Pacific.June 21, 1868.Hon. discharged.Mate. RobinActg. Asst. Surgeon.Powhatan; Naval Asylum.South Pacific.Feb. 6, 1869.Resigned.Passed Asst. Surgeon; Muscoota; Buckthorn. Dacotah.West Gulf. South Pacific. Vaile, John H.,Ohio.Mass.Mass.Sept. 9, 1[1 more...]
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
me rival that will sooner or later humble her pride: Jefferson saw in it the first giant stride of his country to the Pacific ocean, and the permanent triumph of the political party of which he was the father. It was, indeed, an opportunity snatches own mind that there must be a great river to convey the waters from the western slope of the Rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean, he persuaded Mr. Ledyard, the famous traveler, to undertake an expedition to cross the ocean from Russia, and to locconquerors of the wilderness—the American pioneers. The great event of planting the American flag permanently on the Pacific ocean, says Mr. Benton, was not the act of the government, leading the people and protecting them, but like all the other gen the two nations. This compromise seemed the natural and equitable result of the controversy. It continued to the Pacific ocean the long line which separated the possessions of the two nations, and gave to each the territory which seemed to belo
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
of these and other original charters which made the western limit the South sea, meaning the Pacific ocean, the vast ___domain of the Old South embraced also all Texas and much of the territory acquirempromise line, approved March 6, 1820, be, and the same is hereby, declared to extend to the Pacific ocean. Mr. Douglas said significantly that the compromise therein effected is hereby revived andry, spreading from the Gulf of Mexico northward to an undefined boundary and westward to the Pacific ocean, lay open to occupancy, subject to the opera tion of the Constitution and the laws regulatinlaint. Even if the line of 36° 30′ with its prohibitory principle should be extended to the Pacific ocean, as Southern congressmen had voted for, there would still remain a great territory that coul was concerned, they had expressed willingness to accept the line of 36° 30′ extended to the Pacific ocean, or to repeal it altogether; and as they were divided on the views of Mr. Douglas and Mr. Bu<
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
controversy, while extreme radicals opposed all compromise and denounced every measure that favored slavery in any respect. Senator Davis advocated the division of the western territory by an extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific ocean, because it had been once accepted as a settlement of the sectional question. A majority refused this mode of settlement. On this proposition to adhere to the old Missouri Compromise line of settlement the vote in the Senate was 24 yeas ands stationed at the naval observatory, where he invented the deep-sea sounding lead, an achievement which brought to him the gold medal of science of the university of Berlin. He served subsequently with Ringgold's exploring expedition in the Pacific ocean, and engaged in marine surveys off the coast of Japan. In 1861 he resigned his commission as lieutenant, was commissioned lieutenant, C. S. N., and assigned to the ordnance department. He submitted drawings to Secretary Mallory of an iron-
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Mr. Buchanan's administration. (search)
iso instantly caused the flames of fanaticism to burn with more intense ardor, both North and South, than they had ever done before. How wise is the Divine maxim, that sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof! The new territory afterwards acquired from Mexico, being outside of the ancient province of Louisiana, was not embraced by the Missouri Compromise. The late President, then Secretary of State, strongly urged the extension of the line of 36° 30′ through this territory to the Pacific Ocean, as the best mode of adjustment. He believed that its division by this ancient line, to which we had been long accustomed, would be more just in itself, and more acceptable to the people, both North and South, than any new plan which could be devised. Letter to Berks County, Aug. 25, 1847. This proposal was defeated by the Wilmot Proviso. That ill-starred measure continued to be forced upon the consideration of Congress, as well as of State Legislatures, session after session,
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
uchanan's flagship prior to the completion of the Tennessee, and thence he was ordered abroad in charge of a detachment of naval officers who were to go on duty on one of the vessels then building in England. But these were seized by the British government soon after his arrival, and some time later he was ordered as one of the first lieutenants to the cruiser Shenandoah. From Madeira he sailed on this famous vessel, the last of the Confederate cruisers, to Australia, and thence to the North Pacific, and into the Arctic ocean, destroying the American whaling fleet. She captured in all thirty-eight ships, and on June 28, 1865, burned eight prizes near the mouth of Bering's strait. On August 2d they met the British bark Barracouta, from San Francisco, and learned of the capture of President Davis and the end of the war, whereupon they struck all guns below, transformed their ship into the appearance of a merchantman, and sailed for Liverpool, where they anchored November 6th. Then
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Introduction. (search)
Introduction. the original thirteen states that composed the American Union had grown in the course of eighty years to thirty-four; the territory, which had at first been limited to a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast, had spread to the Pacific ocean, and embraced a region as wide as the mightiest empires of the Old World; from the chain of great lakes on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, the republic stretched out a thousand miles across. This land abounded in untold agricultural and mineral wealth; commerce enriched the portions bordering on the sea, manufactures thrived; the taxes were inconsiderable, and a national debt almost unknown, and a degree of material prosperity was attained entirely without precedent. Education was more widely diffused than in any country since the invention of letters, the influence of religion was universally acknowledged, the rich and the poor were equal before the law, and every male citizen had a share in the government. Th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
he following gentlemen: R. W. Fuller, General Ticket Agent Chesapeake and Ohio railway; W. M. S. Dunn, Superintendent Virginia Midland; Henry Fink, General Manager Norfolk and Western, East Tennessee and Georgia, and Selma, Rome and Dalton; M. H. Smith, General Manager Louisville and Nashville railroad; J. G. Schriever, Vice-President of the Morgan railroad; Colonel W. H. Harding, General Manager of the Galveston, Henderson and Houston Railroad; Colonel T. W. Peirce, Jr., Vice-President Southern Pacific; Colonel G. Jordan, Vice-President and General Manager Houston and Texas Central; H. M. Hoxie, Vice-President of the Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads; and Governor J. D. Porter, President Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad. These courtesies, cheerfully granted, enabled us to travel in comfort over these splendid lines, and we were favored in not encountering on this long journey a single a single accident, and in having no detention or failure of connection tha
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