Domestic Manners of the Americans; 1/1/1832, p93-102, 10p
Subjects
FIRST person narrative and VOYAGES & travels
Abstract
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's travel experience in the U.S. in which she had visited the Capitol and observed the domestic manners of the Americans during the funeral of a member of the Congress.
ARREST, NEUTRALITY, SLAVERY, and INTERNATIONAL conflict
Abstract
The article offers worlds news briefs in January 1850. Spanish General Narciso Lopez has been arrested in New Orleans, Louisiana, awaiting trial on charge to violate the U.S. neutrality act of 1818. Both U.S. Houses of Congress are still engaged in arguing the different questions emerging out of slavery. The misunderstanding between France and England has grown out of the demands in the subjects of Great Britain against the Greece government.
UNITED States politics & government, INTERNATIONAL relations, and VIRGINIA. Legislature
Abstract
The article offers news briefs related to politics in the U.S. House Representatives Honorable William R. King of Alabama and Honorable Howell Cobb of Georgia were called to help prepare the opening of the second session of the Thirty-first Congress. The U.S. government has made favorable changes to its foreign policy following its negotiation with Great Britain. The Virginia Legislature has assembled to tackle the Compromise measures of the Congress on December 2, 1850.
Hand-Book of Universal Biography; 1853, p114-115, 2p
Subjects
GOVERNORS
Abstract
An encyclopedia entry is presented for New Hampshire governor Josiah Bartlett, a member of the continental congress who signed the Declaration of Independence after U.S. President Thomas Jefferson in the 1700s.
Hand-Book of Universal Biography; 1853, p121-122, 2p
Subjects
LAWYERS and UNITED States legislators
Abstract
An encyclopedia entry for two notable people in history is presented including U.S. lawyer James A. Bayard and Chevalier de Bayard Pierre du Terrail. James was a commissioner who treated for peace between Great Britain and the U.S. at Ghent in Belgium. He also became a Delaware representative in congress, after which he became a senator. Pierre du Terrail was a spotless character in the middle ages who was a tender lover, modest and simple.
Hand-Book of Universal Biography; 1853, p353-353, 1/2p
Subjects
COLLEGE presidents, EDUCATIONAL attainment, UNIVERSITIES & colleges, CLERGY, and PRESIDENTS
Abstract
An encyclopedia entry for Jonathan Dickinson, first president of New Jersey College, is presented. Graduated at Yale College in 1706, Dickinson was a minister of the first Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He published numerous works on theological subjects. In 1782, Dickinson was selected as president of Pennsylvania in 1782. He also served as a member of congress from Delaware.
Hand-Book of Universal Biography; 1853, p779-780, 2p
Subjects
AMERICAN authors and UNITED States governors
Abstract
An encyclopedia entry for the Trumbull family is presented. Author John Trumbull, who was born in Connecticut in 1750, wrote the poem "McFingal." Jonathan Trumbull, the father of John, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut in 1710 and served as governor of Connecticut. Jonathan Trumbull Jr., son of Jonathan Trumbull Sr. and brother of John, was born at Lebanon in 1740 who served as a member of congress in 1789 and was elected governor in 1798.
Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition - Volume 6; 1/1/1853, p19-20, 2p
Subjects
LETTERS and UNITED States politics & government
Abstract
A letter about the consequences of the troubles in the Eastern States and the act which abandons the navigation of the Mississippi and the author's opinion about some of the public characters in the U.S. Congress.
Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition - Volume 6; 1/1/1853, p56-57, 2p
Subjects
LETTERS and POLITICAL development
Abstract
A letter about the appointment in the U.S. Congress to act as agents in Morocco and the move of parliament to Troyes to end the tumults in Paris, France is presented.
Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition - Volume 6; 1/1/1853, p62-62, 1/5p
Subjects
LETTERS and INTERNATIONAL relations
Abstract
A letter about the appointment made by the U.S. Congress to two Americans to treat with the Emperor in France on the subject of amity and commerce is presented.
Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition - Volume 6; 1/1/1853, p75-76, 2p
Subjects
LETTERS and EXTINGUISHMENT of debts
Abstract
A letter regarding the travel of Commodore Jones to Copenhagen, Denmark to execute the resolution of the U.S. Congress for the partial payment of foreign debt is presented.
Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition - Volume 6; 1/1/1853, p82-82, 1/8p
Subjects
PUBLIC officers and JUDGES
Abstract
The article profiles John Jay, a delegate to the first Congress in the U.S. in 1774. Jay drew up the "Address to the People of Great Britain" and wrote the address issued by the Congress in 1775. In addition, he was a leading member of the New York Convention and was appointed as Chief Justice of New York in 1777.
What it Was, What it Has Done, What it Intends to Do: Speech of Hon. Cydnor B. Tompkins, of Ohio; 1/1/1860, p1-1, 1p
Subjects
SLAVERY in the United States -- Speeches in Congress, CIVIL rights, and SLAVE trade
Abstract
The article presents a speech from former Ohio Congressman Cydnor Bailey Tompkins delivered at the U.S. House of Representatives on April 24, 1860, in which he discussed the unnatural practice of slavery in the country, the absolute abolition of the African slave trade and the importance of civil liberty.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature & National Policy; 1/1/1862, p26-26, 1p
Subjects
PRESIDENTIAL administrations, PROCLAMATIONS, and INSURGENCY
Abstract
The article presents the editor's views on the program pertaining to the emancipation of rebels with their consent, compensation by Congress, and colonization beyond the limits in the U.S. He reacts that the proclamation of the program by President Abraham Lincoln only applies to such of them as shall persist in rebellion after the first of January 1863. He also looks at the three classes of states in which this proclamation will have no effect on the first of January.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature & National Policy; 1/1/1862, p10-10, 1p
Subjects
PRINCIPLE of nationalities
Abstract
The article presents the author's insights on the main points in the Articles of Confederation and Constitution. The author differentiates the frameworks of the two governments and reveals the differences between them. The author notes that the vote in Congress was taken by the States based on the Articles while vote is taken by members according to the Constitution. The author also stresses that the Constitution is considered as the organic law of a completed and developed nationality.
