New Primary History of the United StatesB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 страници |
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Страница 222 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Страница 111 - Resolved, that these United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent States...
Страница 222 - Spain from the island, and empowered the President to use the military and naval forces of the United States to carry the resolutions into effect.
Страница 174 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected president, and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, vicepresident, of the Confederate States of America.
Страница 136 - He died in 1799; it was well said of him that he was " first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-countrymen." OUTLINE. The English colonists learned their own strength during the French and Indian War. They were not represented in the English Parliament, and objected to taxation without representation. Parliament passed in 1765 the Stamp Act. But it could not...
Страница 209 - Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, and I did the work.
Страница 222 - First, that the people of the Island of Cuba are, and by right ought to be, free and independent.
Страница 149 - But in 1820 an agreement was reached, known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was admitted as a slave State and Maine as a free State...
Страница 130 - ... March. They are to hold for two years, but the precise hour for the commencement of that term of two years is nowhere fixed by constitutional or legal provision. It has been established by usage and by inference, and very properly established, that, since the first Congress commenced its existence on the first Wednesday in March, 1789, which happened to be the...
Страница 222 - Cuba, and that after it had been pacified we would "leave the government and control of the island to its people...