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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
n Trader with a valuable cargo......August, 1813 Cherokees cede territory lying within the chartered limits of South Carolina, by treaty at Washington, March 22, 1816; ratified by the legislature of South Carolina......Dec. 19, 1816 Monroe appoints John C. Calhoun Secretary of War......Oct. 8, 1817 Territory ceded by the Cherokees in 1816, annexed to the election district of Pendleton......1820 College of Charleston, commenced in Charleston in 1785, reorganized and opened......Jan. 1, 1824 Legislature denounces the United States tariff as encroaching on State rights......Dec. 12, 1827 Public meeting on State rights held at Columbia......Sept. 20, 1830 Governor Hamilton recommends to legislature a nullification act......1830 Legislature calls a convention at Columbia, Nov. 19, 1832, to consider the protective tariff......Oct. 25, 1832 President instructs the collector at Charleston to seize and hold every vessel entering that port until the duties be paid, an
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 1: his early years and first employment as a compositor (search)
New York-he was a non-user of intoxicants and tobacco. Neither of his parents, he says, was a total abstainer from the use of liquor, and both loved their pipe. But the son was made sick by smoking a half-burned cigar in his grandfather's house when not more than five years old, and from that time he looked on the use of tobacco in any form as if not the most pernicious, certainly the vilest, most detestable abuse of his corrupt sensual appetites whereof depraved man is capable. On January 1, 1824, young Greeley deliberately resolved to drink no more distilled liquors, and he kept this pledge thus made to himself when only thirteen years old, in a community where strong drink was as free as water, and nine years before the American Temperance Society declared for total abstinence. Soon after he went to Poultney he assisted in organizing a temperance society, and, to make sure that his own years would not bar him from membership, he had a resolution adopted that members be recei