It is a fact not perhaps generally known, that Washington drew his last breath in the last hour in the last day of the last week, in the last month of the year, and in the last year of the century. Saturday night, 12 o’clock, December 31, 1799.
Maxamillian is at last on his winding way to Mexico. He comes to visit a country conquered by foreign arms – to rule a people who despise and detest him. The throne he mounts is propped up by the French bayonets; the power he proposes to wield is usurped.
– Published in The Union Sentinel, June 4, 1864
Maxamillian is at last on his winding way to Mexico. He comes to visit a country conquered by foreign arms – to rule a people who despise and detest him. The throne he mounts is propped up by the French bayonets; the power he proposes to wield is usurped.
– Published in The Union Sentinel, June 4, 1864
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