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...sisting that there is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they... ...absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man’s right of property; Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar, but in c... ... adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans and other opposition elements for the canvass of 1860, is recei... ...certainly true that if the National House shall fall into the hands of the Republicans, they will have to attend to all the other matters of national ... ... a few years later, Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama. In both deeds of cession it was made a condition b... ...n there, to a certain extent. In 1798, Congress organized the Territory of Mississippi: In the act of organization they prohibited the bring- ing of s... ...trol of it—in a more marked and extensive way than they did in the case of Mississippi. The substance of the provi- sion therein made in relation to s... ....” They were Abraham Baldwin and Jonathan Dayton. As stated in the case of Mississippi, it is probable they both voted for it. They would not have all... ...of obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too power- ful to be sup...

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...ll England and the United Provinces mourned the loss of William. Some good republicans alone breathed again with joy in secret, at having recovered th... ...e lotteries that were held every month; those which had been given for the Mississippi or Western Company; finally, those which had been taken to the ... ...X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER XCIX CIX CIX CIX CIX LAW HAD ESTABLISHED his Mississippi Company, and now be- gan to do marvels with it. A sort of langu... ...rtake to explain than the other finance operations. Everybody was mad upon Mississippi Stock. Im- mense fortunes were made, almost in a breath; Law, b... ...escent into the wood of the goulottes, the Regent spoke again to me of the Mississippi, and pressed me to receive some shares from Law. The more I res... ...ain at the ex- pense of others, and would in no way mix myself up with the Mississippi scheme. M. le Duc d’Orleans knew only too well how to reply to ...

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...ded and patronized my anti-slavery meetings, were, in truth, about as good republicans as the mass of Ameri- cans, and with this decided advantage ove... ...lared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, a... ...in front of the embattled host of slavery, which not all the waters of the Mississippi, mingled as they are with blood, could extinguish. The present ...

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...e made some one else put up the machinery that was to play the part of the Mississippi scheme in Law’s system. Nucingen can make the longest-headed me... ...lis, forsooth, and the octroi duties accord- ingly were insanely high. The Republicans got wind of this bread riot, they organized the canuts in two c...

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... This wish was gratified; but how? At the age of nineteen he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade ... ... In his speech opening the campaign of 1858, he spoke of Lincoln, whom the Republicans had dared to advance as their candidate for “his” place in the ... ...d to force a lasting breach in the Democratic party, seriously advised the Republicans of Illinois to give up their opposition to Douglas, and to help... ...e Democrats would have the South. In order to succeed in the election, the Republicans had to win, in addition to the States carried by Fremont in 185... ...d with the energy of genuine enthusiasm on the antislavery side the united Republicans defeated the divided Democrats, and Lincoln was elected Preside... ...artisan- ship reiterated this cry with vociferous vehemence, and even many Republicans grew afraid of the victory they had just achieved at the ballot... ...months of the war its ravages had extended from the Atlantic to beyond the Mississippi. Many victories in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by ... ...re perhaps the most dangerous in example and revolting to humanity. In the Mississippi case they first commenced by hanging the regular gam- blers—a s...

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...?’ asked Martin of his companion. ‘Extremely probable,’ he answered. ‘Some Mississippi or Mis- souri lot, I dare say.’ ‘However,’ pursued Mark, ‘he ca... ...t grotesque of apes, or morally, as the mildest Nimrod among tuft- hunting republicans! ‘In short,’ said Mr Norris the father, settling the question c... ...ivate). ‘Sir—I was raised in those interminable solitudes where our mighty Mississippi (or Father of Waters) rolls his turbid flood. ‘I am young, and ...

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...im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could ar... ...ALLECK. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, near Corinth, Mississippi: Several despatches from Assistant Secretary Scott and one from... ...H. W . HALLECK. W ASHINGTON, June 8, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give ... .... W . HALLECK. W ASHINGTON, June 18, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: It would be of both interest and value to us here to know how ... ...ri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the West, open the Mississippi, and take Chattanooga and East Tennessee with- out more. A reas... ...I under- stand you now to be willing to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided they have “heart in it.” Agreed. I want no others. Bu... ... ol Six reject all I should be advised to reject, I should have none left, Republicans or others not even yourself. For be assured, my dear sir, there... ...ng their faith with their blood, Baker and Lyon and Bohien and Richardson, Republicans, did all that men could do; but did they any more than Kearny a... ...any more than Kearny and Stevens and Reno and Mansfield, none of whom were Republicans, and some at least of whom have been bitterly and repeatedly de...

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... inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlanti... ...ans, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. The Mississippi takes its source above the limit of the two gr... ...nother river,* which empties itself into the Polar seas. The course of the Mississippi is at first dubious: it winds several times towards the north, ... ...eous bed which nature has assigned to it, sometimes swollen by storms, the Mississippi waters 2,500 miles in its course.** At the distance of 1,364 mi... ...Fifty-seven large navigable rivers contrib- ute to swell the waters of the Mississippi; amongst others, the Missouri, which traverses a space of 2,500... ...out its protection. Nothing, how- ever, is further from the designs of the republicans of Europe than this course: as many of them owe their hatred of... ...eristics – America has had great parties –They are extinct – Federalists – Republicans – De- feat of the Federalists – Difficulty of creating parties ... ...coming from day to day too vio- lent to be checked or stemmed. In 1801 the Republicans got possession of the Government; Thomas Jefferson was named Pr... ...ues or the talents of their leaders that they had risen to power. When the Republicans attained to that lofty station, their opponents were overwhelme...

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......................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI................................................................... .................................................... 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI................................................................... ...ch side win that may. “We will never abandon the right to the mouth of the Mississippi.” That, in all such arguments, is a strong point with men of th... ... which he made in New York on the 4th of July, 1861. “The Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers,” he says, “with their hundred tributaries, give to the ... ...- let of this system lies between the States of Tennessee and Missouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State of Louisiana. The ancient p... ... by the general tenor of my book. The American and the Englishman are both republicans. The governments of the States and of England are probably the ... ... very many such Americans. 230 North America V ol. 1 They call themselves republicans, and sneer at the idea of a limited monarchy, but they declare ... ...d as a minister, even by one of his own party. The Radical or Abolitionist Republicans all abused him. The Conservative or Anti-abolition Republicans,... ...nd other godly Protestants, they will submit to religious teaching, but as republicans they will have no priestcraft. The French at their revolution h...

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...who exercises jurisdiction over a piece of land between the Wabash and the Mississippi; and yet so far is this from being all there is between those r... ... within a hundred miles of either. He has a neighbor be- tween him and the Mississippi—that is, just across the street, in that direction—whom I am su... ...e broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississippi River, can- not, I think, be distinguished in principle. Each i... .... The next most general object I can think of would be improvements on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. They touch thirteen of our States-Pe... ...ouch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Loui- siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wis-... ... or deny that the Judge’s mode of coercing them is not as good as any. The Republicans can fall in with it without taking back any- thing they have ev... ...d. But in all this it is very plain the Judge evades the only question the Republicans have ever pressed upon the De- mocracy in regard to Utah. That ... ...gging it in from the opposition to the Dred Scott deci- sion. He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declara- tion of Independence includes all m... ...case affords a strong test as to which party most favors amalgamation, the Republicans or the dear Union-saving Democracy. Dred Scott, his wife, and t...

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...We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would w... ...cal passions; and in any view is it not better that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled by our own breth ren and children than by ... ... ships of war of the largest size. It covers by its position in the Gulf the Mississippi and other great waters within our extended limits, and thereb... ...S OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 55 Twenty five years ago the river Mississippi was shut up and our Western brethren had no outlet for their ... ...ame from the hands of the Conven tion which formed it, many of the sternest republicans of the day were alarmed at the extent of the power which had ... ...people, increasing to many millions, have filled the east ern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and ... ...d, and with respect to which we ought not to be, in a partisan sense, either Republicans or Democrats, but fellow citizens and fellowmen, to whom the ... ...ol of the chan nel of a great river system, like that of the Ohio or of the Mississippi, when definite and practical plans for the enterprise have be... ...ster, screen actor, and Governor of California. In the election of 1980, the Republicans won the White House and a majority in the Senate. On inaugura...

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...e field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On ev... ...coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would fi... ...nlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, bu...

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...is capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathere... ...f the States had, in the first instance, been thought desirable. The young republicans hankered after the separate power and separate name which each ... ...at time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories. Louisiana had been recently purchase... ...al Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of which General Halleck now... ... of these were not now at work. They were resting idle, the trade down the Mississippi below St. Louis hav- ing been cut off by the war. Many of them,... ...Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carried on by these boats while the coun... ...ch through various denominations have sprung those who now call themselves Republicans, was Alexander Hamilton. I be- lieve I may say that all the pol... ...have a close and warm sympathy with those Transatlantic anti-monar- chical republicans who are endeavoring to prove to the world that they have at len... ...ment. Mr. Lincoln was then proclaimed as the Republican candidate, and all Republicans were held as bound to support him. When the time came for the c...

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...ir immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mugwumps. Bur gess has always found ha... ... can hear me think. I went by the way of Cincinnati, and down the Ohio and Mississippi. My idea was to take ship, at New Orleans, for Para. In New Orl... ... game they brought in: America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey. North America is separated by Spain. America consists fr... ...tiplication table. Did he have something to say—this Shakespeare ador ing Mississippi pilot—anent Delia Bacon’s book? What Is Man and Other Essays 1... ...son—however, I have told all about it in the book called Old Times on the Mississippi , and it isn’t important, anyway, it is so long ago. What Is M... ...rt ; just as a bright lad like me, reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi, might become perfect in knowledge of the Bering Strait whale ...

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...rders. The troops were embarked on steamers and were on their way down the Mississippi within a few days after the receipt of this order. About the ti... ...r that borders the bank of the Rio Grande is reached. This river, like the Mississippi, flows through a rich alluvial valley in the most meandering ma... ...an officer, who died of the dis- ease. My regiment was sent to Pascagoula, Mississippi, to spend the summer. As soon as it was settled in camp I obtai... ...not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the “wide awakes” —Republicans—in their rooms, and su- perintended their drill. It was evident... ...ossessed at all by Florida 116 Personal Memoirs or the States west of the Mississippi, all of which were pur- chased by the treasury of the entire na... ...d back down. Mr. Jefferson Davis said in a speech, delivered at La Grange, Mississippi, before the seces- sion of that State, that he would agree to d... ...the country all aglow. This was the first great political campaign for the Republicans in their canvass of 1864. It was followed later by Sheridan’s c...

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...icy of their respective sovereigns. Spain thinks it convenient to shut the Mississippi against us on the one side, and Britain excludes us from the Sa... ...rnment. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting t... ... to solve to our disadvantage. The disposition of Spain with regard to the Mississippi needs no comment. France and Britain are concerned with us in t... ...Atlantic, on the south the latitude of thirty-one degrees, on the west the Mississippi, and on the north an ir- regular line running in some instances... ... eight miles and three-fourths. The mean distance from the Atlantic to the Mississippi does not probably exceed seven hundred and fifty miles. On a co... ...led by nature and compact to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi? Spain excludes us from it. Is public credit an indispensable r... ...on of their powers, might aspire to 170 The Federalist Papers the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic...

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...probable that they would be willing to fight directly against slavery. The Republicans well know that if they can reëstablish the Union, they gain eve... ...w Republic, Mr. Jefferson Davis, was the original inventor of repudiation. Mississippi was the first State which repudiated, Mr. Jefferson Davis was G... ... was the first State which repudiated, Mr. Jefferson Davis was Governor of Mississippi, and the Legislature of Mississippi had passed a Bill recogniz ...

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...After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected to the US Congress in 1873. There, he continued to be an ac...