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, 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.
