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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
atic, March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857. Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire, President. William R. Crystal Palace, opening at New York City; President Pierce present......July 14, 1853 William Walery......Jan. 16, 1854 Proclamation of President Pierce against the invasion of Mexico (called ou0 repealed by section 14 of this act.] President Pierce issues a proclamation against the invasiosylvania, appointed governor of Kansas by President Pierce......1854 Second session assembles.... stormiest ever held.] Proclamation of President Pierce against the invasion of Nicaragua......Dec. 8, 1855 President Pierce, in special message, recognizes the pro-slavery legislature of the Tean act of rebellion......Jan. 24, 1856 President Pierce by proclamation warns all persons againstnridge, of Kentucky, for Vice-President. Franklin Pierce and Stephen A. Douglas were also candidatat of Confederates......July 2-3, 1863 Franklin Pierce, ex-President of the United States, addre[4 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
pro-slavery men carry off the ballotbox at Leavenworth......Dec. 15, 1855 Office of the Territorial register at Leavenworth entered by a mob, press and type thrown into the river......Dec. 15, 1855 Convention at Lawrence nominates State officers under the Topeka constitution. The conservative free-State men bolt and nominate a free-State, antiabolition ticket......Dec. 22, 1855 Dr. Charles Robinson elected governor under the Topeka constitution......Jan. 15, 1856 Message of President Pierce to Congress, endorses the bogus legislature, and calls the Topeka movement revolutionary......Jan. 24, 1856 Whitfield takes his seat in Congress, and Reeder announces that he will contest it......Feb. 4, 1856 United States forces in Kansas, by order of Secretary of War, are put under requisition of the governor......Feb. 15, 1856 Free-State legislature meets at Topeka; Governor Robinson delivers his message, and A. H. Reeder and J. H. Lane are elected senators......March 4, 185
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
s ordered to be levied......Feb. 8, 1676 Medfield surprised and laid in ashes......Feb. 21, 1676 Weymouth, within 18 miles of Boston, attacked and seven buildings burned......Feb. 24 1676 Groton attacked......March 3, 9, 13, 1676 Town of Plymouth assaulted and twelve persons killed......March, 1676 Warwick burned and Providence partially destroyed......March 17, 1676 [The aged Roger Williams accepts a commission as captain for the defence of the town he had founded.] Captain Pierce, of Scituate, with about fifty men and twenty Indians, routed near Seekonk; his entire party cut off......March 26. 1676 Marlborough attacked and partially burned......March 26, 1676 Seekonk laid in ashes......March 28, 1676 Canonchet, sachem of the Narragansets, captured......April 9, 1676 Sudbury attacked and partially burned; Captain Wadsworth, of Milton, and his party surprised and totally defeated......April 21, 1676 Plymouth again attacked......May 11, 1676 Indi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
March 4, 1846 Mississippi regiment, under command of Col. Jefferson Davis, serves in the Mexican War......1846 University of Mississippi at Oxford, chartered in 1844, is opened......1848 Governor Quitman, arrested by the United States marshal for violation of the neutrality law of 1818 in abetting the expedition against Cuba, resigns as governor. He is acquitted, renominated, but declines......1851 Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, appointed United States Secretary of War by President Pierce......March 5, 1853 Amendment to the constitution ratified, appointing the first Monday in October as day for general election, and making the term of office of the governor two years......Feb. 2, 1856 Jacob Thompson Secretary of the Interior......March 6, 1857 Southern convention delegates from eight States assemble at Vicksburg and consider reopening the slave-trade......May 11, 1859 Whitworth female college at Brookhaven opened and chartered......1859 By joint resolutio
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
uted of county school commissioners......June, 1850 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, Md., nominates Gen. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, for President......May 9, 1852 New Hampshire conference seminary and female college at Tilton, opened 1845, receives its charter......1852 Property qualification for State officers abolished......1852 Franklin Pierce inaugurated President......March 4, 1853 Gold discovered at Plainfield, in the Connecticut Valley......1854 Statn incorporated......1854 First regiment of Federal troops leaves Concord for the seat of war......May 25, 1861 Franklin Pierce's remarkable speech at Concord on the war ......July 4, 1863 Soldiers' voting bill, passed Aug. 17, is returned Aent to the United States Constitution......July 1, 1869 City training-school, Manchester, opened......1869 Ex-President Pierce dies at Concord......Oct. 8, 1869 Labor Reform party holds its first State convention......Jan. 28, 1870 Act
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Veto (search)
. 24June 29, 1842First Whig Tariff. 25Aug. 9, 1842Second Whig Tariff. 26Dec. 14, 1842Proceeds of Public Land SalesPocketed. 27Dec. 14, 1842Testimony in Contested ElectionsPocketed. 28Dec. 18, 1842Payment of Cherokee CertificatesPocketed. 29June 11, 1844River and Harbor. 30Feb. 20, 1845Revenue-cutters and Steamers for DefencePassed over the veto, the first. Polk, 3 31Aug. 3, 1846River and Harbor. 32Aug. 8, 1846French Spoliation Claims. 33Dec. 15, 1847Internal ImprovementsPocketed. Pierce, 9 34May 3, 1854Land Grant for Indigent Insane. 35Aug. 4, 1854Internal Improvements. 36Feb. 17, 1855French Spoliation Claims. 37March 3. 1855Subsidy for Ocean Mails. 38May 19, 1856Internal Improvements, MississippiPassed over veto. 39May 19, 1856Internal Improvements, St. Clair Flats, Mich.Passed over veto. 40May 22, 1856Internal Improvements, St. Mary's River, Mich.Passed over veto. 41Aug. 11, 1856Internal Improvements, Des Moines River, Mich.Passed over veto. 42Aug. 14, 1856Intern
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 39 (search)
by some sharp instrument. He wore a suit of grayish-brown, evidently of foreign manufacture, and, as he rose, I saw that he was about five feet ten inches high, with a slight stoop in the shoulders. His manners were simple, easy, and quite fascinating; and he threw an indescribable charm into his voice, as he extended his hand, and said to us: I am glad to see you, gentlemen. You are very welcome to Richmond. And this was the man who was President of the United States under Franklin Pierce, and who is now the heart, soul, and brains of the Southern Confederacy! His manner put me entirely at my ease — the Colonel would be at his, if he stood before Caesar — and I replied: We thank you, Mr. Davis. It is not often you meet men of our clothes, and our principles, in Richmond. Not often — not so often as I could wish; and I trust your coming may lead to a more frequent and a more friendly intercourse between the North and the South. We sincerely hope it may. <
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Sumner. (search)
mner was facile princeps. Trumbull was a vigorous orator and a rough-rider in debate, but he did not possess the store of legal knowledge and the vast fund of general information which Sumner could draw from. One has to read the fourth volume of Pierce's biography to realize the dimensions of Sumner's work during the period from 1861 to 1869. Military affairs he never interfered with, but he was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the most important in the Senate, and in the directioe nineteenth century. He carried his measures through by pure force of argument and clearness of foresight. From 1854 to 1874 it was his policy that prevailed in the councils of the nation. He succeeded where others failed. He defeated Franklin Pierce, Seward, Trumbull, Andrew Johnson, Hamilton Fish, and even Lincoln, on the extradition of Mason and Slidell. He tied Johnson down, so that he could only move his tongue. In considering Sumner's oratory, we should bear in mind what Coleri
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
Fanshawe. Bowdoin College cherishes with affection its few memorials of Longfellow, yet I found none of these more noticeable on a recent visit than the printed list of students in 1821--the number being only I 114 in all and given on a single page, yet including an unusually large proportion of men nationally famous. The little college, then only twenty years old, contributed to literature, out of its undergraduates, Longfellow and Hawthorne, then spelled Hathorne; to public life, Franklin Pierce, President of the United States; to the medical profession, Drs. Luther V. Bell and D. Humphreys Storer; and to the Christian ministry, Calvin E. Stowe and George B. Cheever. The corresponding four classes at Harvard had more than twice the number of students (252), but I do not think the proportion of men of national reputation was quite so large, although the Harvard list included Admiral C. H. Davis, Charles Francis Adams, Frederick Henry Hedge, George Ripley, and Sears Cook Walker.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
. Page, W. H., 69. Palfrey, Rev. J. G., 16, 44, 50. Palfrey, Miss Sarah H., 16. Parker, Rev., Theodore, 53, 58, 62, 63, 67, 104, 179, 180, 181. Parsons, Charles, 77. Parsons, T. W., 67. Paul, Jean, (see Richter). Peirce, Benjamin, 16. Peirce, Prof., Benjamin, 143. Peirce, C. S., 16. Peirce, J. M., 16. Percival, J. G., 175, 191. Perry, T. S., 70. Petrarch, Francis, 191. Phelps, E. J., 195. Phillips, M. D., 68. Phillips, Wendell, 104, 179. Phillips, Willard, 44. Pierce, Pres., Franklin, 113. Poe, E. A., 137, 144, 173. Pope, Alexander, 90, 91. Popkin, Dr. J. S., 23. Potter, Barrett, 119. Pratt, Dexter, 126. Pratt, Rowena, 126. Putnam, Rev., George, 54, Putnam, Mrs. S. R., 16. Puttenham, George, 159. Quincy, Edmund, 67, 104. Quincy, Pres., Josiah, 29, 43, 157. Read, Gen., Meredith, 132. Richter, J. P. F., 85, 116. Riedesel, Baroness, 149, 150. Ripley, George, 48, 54,57, 67, 113. Rossetti, D. G., 132. Rousseau, J. J., 191. Ruggles, Mrs., 151. Ru
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