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...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...em a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. The road we were on, struck... ...irection to the Mississippi River, thence it runs along the Mississippi to Warrenton, six miles below. The Yazoo River leaves the high land a short di... ...rongly fortified. The whole distance from there to Vicksburg and thence to Warrenton was also intrenched, with batteries at suitable distances and rif... ...oad. McClernand took up the ground to his left and extended as far towards Warrenton as he could, keep- ing a continuous line. On the 19th there was c...

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...s rather careful when he drove up to the fa- cade of his shop. “I like our new lettering,” he said thoughtfully. The words “Stewart Ansell” were repea... ...to-date were said to be combined. The school doubled its numbers. It built new class-rooms, laboratories and a gymna- sium. It dropped the prefix “Gra... ...ped the prefix “Grammar.” It coaxed the sons of the local tradesmen into a new founda- tion, the “Commercial School,” built a couple of miles away. An... ...athing-drawers, that showed how far a boy could swim; his the hierarchy of jerseys and blazers. It was he who instituted Bounds, and call, and the two... ... knew them, and their admirable muscles showed clear and clean beneath the jersey. The face, too, though a little flushed, was uninjured: it must be s... ...f- foon. Taking up her pen, she began to caricature him. She drew a rabbit-warren where rabbits were at play in four dimensions. Before she had introd... ...s: all society seemed spread before him like a map. The line be- tween the county and the local, the line between the labourer and the artisan—he knew... ...d. She told them so to their faces, which made them no brighter. And their county was worthy of them: no distinction in it—no style— simply land. But ... ...But the general effect was pale, or rather silvery, for Wiltshire is not a county of heavy tints. Beneath these colours lurked the unconquerable chalk...

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...formation of Mr. Washington’s character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern edu... ...ard of the head of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man... ...ought and reading and ob- servation; for the old difficulties remained and new ones 7 Booker T. Washington had sprung up. Then I saw clearly that the... ...er I. A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of m... ... heart. I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose mor... ...some power of magic I might remove the great bulk of these people into the county districts and plant them upon the soil, upon the solid and never dec... ...hool never could 100 UP FROM SLAVERY have become what it is. This was Mr. Warren Logan, who now for seventeen years has been the treasurer of the Ins... ...ber of years, and are as much interested in it as I am. In my absence, Mr. Warren Logan, the treasurer, who has been at the school seventeen years, is... ...ere were several passengers whom we knew, including Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, and Edward Marshall, the newspaper correspondent. I had just a litt...

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...ilson.........................236 Woodrow Wilson.........................240 Warren G. Harding......................245 Calvin Coolidge.................. ...TON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took... ... 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wal... ...er of votes. Under the rules, each elector cast two votes. The Chancellor of New York and fellow Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath... ... governed in a body, and whose dominions seldom exceeded the dimensions of a county in one of our States, a tumultuous and disorderly movement per mi... ...lican ticket and Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party. The Governor of New Jersey and former Princeton University president was accompanied by Presi... ...ght exalted. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 244 Warren G. Harding INAUGURAL ADDRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921 Senator Harding... ...earth. Harry S. Truman INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 A former county judge, Senator and Vice President, Harry S. Truman had taken the o... ...ed the oath of office on the East Portico of the Capitol. Chief Justice Earl Warren ad ministered the oath of office on the President’s personal Bibl...

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...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...e meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him. He says o... ...in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat Geeta. Warren Hastings, in his sensible letter recommending the translation of thi... ...of the homesteads of the Huguenots, on Staten Island, off the coast of New Jersey. The hills in the interior of this island, though comparatively low,... ...fifteen hundred acres, being the largest body of fresh water in Rockingham County,—comes in near here from the east. Rowing between Manchester and Bed... ...own [Goffstown]. He was one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in the county. He was many years an active member of the legislature.”—”Hon. Rober...

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...read the card on the doorpost. This youth was attired in a coarse sailor’s jersey and a pair of gray tweed trousers, which he had considerably outgrow... ...terary trifling.” She looked at him with the vague fear that accompanies a new and doubtful experience; and he, dissatisfied with his way of putting t... ...to you. I will give orders that no one shall go to the dairy by way of the warren. It is natural that he should wish to be out of the world.” “The nex... ...e privacy was so strin- gently insisted upon, by her invalid tenant at the Warren Lodge. She fled into the wood at once, and, when she was safe there,... ...reams—probably a reminiscence of Lucian’s statement that the tenant of the Warren Lodge had a single male attendant. It was impossible that this glo- ... ...de, Miss Goff; but I find you very shy. You want to run away and hide from new faces and new sur- roundings.” Alice, who was self-possessed and even o... ...dered for a moment, and said, “It is nearly three years since I have had a new dress.” Alice looked up with interest. “Now that I have you to help me ... ...Cashel. The Byrons are only commoners; but even they are one of the oldest county families in England.” Cashel began to show signs of excitement. “How... ...lf that alter our affairs completely. My birth is all right; I’m heir to a county family that came over with the Conqueror, and I shall have a decent ...

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...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ... untried things. The amount of capacity which a people pos sess for doing new things, and adapting themselves to new circumstances; is itself one of ... ...e principles which are the foundation of represen tative government. In a County Board there is not the same justification as in Boards of Guardians ... ... admix ture of ex officio with elected members, since the business of a county being on a sufficiently large scale to be an object of interest and ... ...ves elected to the Board than they have in being returned to Parliament as county members. In regard to the proper circumscription of the constituen ... ...gnity in the gift of the crown is freely open to the native of Guernsey or Jersey. Generals, admirals, peers of the United Kingdom are made, and there... ...le by another does not and can not exist. One people may keep another as a warren or preserve for its own use, a place to make money in, a human cattl...