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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Organization of the two governments. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 195 (search)
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173 1/2.-U. S. Executive Government, 1857-61.
President.--James Buchanan, of Penn.
Vice-President.--John C. Breckinridge, of Ky.
Secretaries of State.--Lewis Cass, of Michigan; Jeremiah S. Black of Penn., appt.
Dec. 17, 1860.
Secretary of the Navy.--Isaac Toucey, of Conn.
Secretaries of War.--John B. Floyd, of Va.; Joseph Holt, of Ky., appt.
Jan. 18, 1861.
Secretaries of the Treasury.--Howell Cobb, of Ga.; Philip F. Thomas, of Md., appt.
Dec. 12, 1860; John A. Dix, of N. Y., appt.
Jan. 11, 1861.
Secretary of the Interior.--Jacob Thompson, of Miss.
Postmasters-General.--Joseph Holt, of Ky.; Horatio King, of Me., appt.
Feb. 12, 1861.
Attorneys-General.--Jeremiah S. Black, of Penn.; Edwin M. Stanton, of Penn., appt.
Dec. 20, 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cartier , Jacques 1494 -1555 (search)
Cavaliers,
Adherents of the fortunes of the Stuarts—the nobility, and the bitter opposers of the Puritans.
On the death of Charles I. (1649), they fled to Virginia by hundreds, where only, in America, their Church and their King were respected.
They made an undesirable addition to the population, excepting their introduction of more refinement of manner than the ordinary colonist possessed.
They were idle, inclined to luxurious living, and haughty in their deportment towards the common people.
It was they who rallied around Berkeley in his struggles with Bacon (see Bacon, Nathaniel), and gave him all his strength in the Assembly.
They were extremely social among their class, and gatherings and feastings and wine-drinking were much indulged in until poverty pinched them.
They gave a stimulus to the slave-trade, for, unwilling to work themselves, they desired servile tillers of their broad acres; and so were planted the seeds of a landed oligarchy in Virginia that ruled the co
Charles I. 1600-
King of England; second son of James I.; was born at Dunfermline, Scotland, Nov. 19, 1600.
The death of his elder brother, Henry, in 1612, made him heir-apparent to the throne, which he ascended as King in 1625.
He sought the hand of the infanta of Spain, but finally married (1625) Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV.
of France.
She was a Roman Catholic, and had been procured for Charles by the infamous Duke of Buckingham, whose influence over the young King was disastrous to England and to the monarch himself.
Charles was naturally a good man, but his education, especially concerning the doctrine of the divine right of kings and the sanctity of the royal prerogative, led to an outbreak in England which cost him his life.
Civil war began in 1641, and ended with his execution at the beginning of 1649.
His reign was at first succeeded by the rule of the Long Parliament, and then by Cromwell—halfmonarch, called the Protector.
After various vicissitudes