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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
..February, 1850 Geological survey authorized by act of......Feb. 17, 1851 Law providing that any negro or mulatto, bond or free, who comes into the State and remains ten days may be fined $50 or sold into slavery until the fine is worked out......Feb. 12, 1853 Act passed incorporating the State Agricultural Society......1853 Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, chartered and opened......1853 Hon. N. W. Edwards appointed State superintendent of common schools......March 15, 1854 Attempt of Senator Stephen A. Douglas to address the people of Chicago from an open balcony in defence of the Kansas-Nebraska bill is met with hisses, groans, and continued noise for four hours, when Douglas retires......Sept. 1, 1854 Law for a system of free schools in the State......Feb. 15, 1855 Trial of some thirty German saloonkeepers in Chicago for violating the prohibitory liquor law just passed leads to a riot, April 21; city placed under martial law......April 22, 1855
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
umner intended to speak again on the bill, but was dissuaded by Seward, whose influence with him was then considerable as to questions of time and occasion. Twice, however, during the last night of the debate he was on his feet,—once to deny the charge made by Norris of New Hampshire that he had counselled forcible resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in his Faneuil Hall speech in 1850, This point of controversy was the subject of a letter from Sumner printed in the Washington Union, March 15, 1854. Seward (Life, vol. II. p. 225) advised him not to notice that journal's attack. and again to repel the insinuation of Douglas that he had come to the Senate by participation in a dishonorable combination. Sumner wrote to Dr. Howe, Dec. 8, 1853:— I am glad you are to influence the Commnonwealth. It will be a source of pleasure and confidence to me here to know that you are connected with it. Of all the papers which visit me at breakfast, I open that Boston sheet first; then c
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
53. He then walked alone to the printing-office, and thence to Seward's. As nothing occurred that day, the apprehensions of his friends were allayed. Preston S. Brooks was then a member of the House from South Carolina, born at Edgefield Court House, living in Ninety-six, a township of some interest in Revolutionary history, and representing a cotton-planting district in the northwestern part of the State. He first came to Congress late in the session of 1852-1853. He made a speech (March 15, 1854) in favor of the Nebraska bill, and during the same session advocated at length (June 14) a southern route for the Pacific Railroad. These speeches show him to have been a person of only respectable ability, and his friends hardly claimed more for him. During his service hitherto, hardly three years in length, he had been a modest and orderly member, indulging in no acrimonious speech and keeping aloof from scenes of disorder; and his pacific manner and temperament had been observed. O
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, The Ladies' Sewing Circle (search)
The Ladies' Sewing Circle Mrs. S. W. Fuller This society was organized March 15, 1854. The following is a copy of the preamble to the constitution:— It is the design of this society to strengthen and increase a social feeling among the members, and to assist by its funds any good and commendable enterprise of the religious society with which it is connected, or to contribute to any good object that a majority of the members may designate; and we as members agree to abide by the following constitution. The names of the original members cannot be obtained; two years later, however, in 1856, we find a list in which are the following names:— Mrs. N. T. Munroe, Mrs. Daniel Pratt. Mrs. Sewall Dodge, Mrs. Nathaniel Daniels, Mrs. John Mandell, Mrs. George Rogers, Mrs. E. Harmon, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. James Runey, Miss Georgiana Williams, Miss Harriet Fitz, Mrs. W. Gage, Mrs. Giles, Mrs. H. Bradshaw, Mrs. H. Cutter, Mrs. Seth Stevens, Mrs. Childs, Mrs. George S. Fogg, Miss Mart