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Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, May 14, 1851

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FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: BY the hands of the Secretary of the Commonwealth I have received a certificat...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Speech of John Tyler to the Peace Congress, February 5, 1861

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Gentlemen, I fear you have committed a great error in appointing me to the honorable position you have assigned me. A long separation from a...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 18, 1861

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After breakfast. Leaving head-quarters, I went across to General Mansfield's, and was going up-stairs, when the General* himself, a whi...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

John Brown to Rebecca Buffum Spring, November 24, 1859

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Charlestown, Jefferson County, Va. , Nov. 24, 1859. My Dear Mrs. Spring , —Your ever welcome letter of the 19th inst., together with t...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Last Will and Testament of George Washington, July 9, 1799

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States, and lately President of the same, do ma...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

John Brown to Theodore Parker, March 7, 1858

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Boston, Mass ., March 7, 1858. My Dear Sir , — Since you know I have an almost countless brood of poor hungry chickens to “scratch for...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, July 12, 1864

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And how is Ashfield? I should have written you there before if I had supposed there was a post-office at such a height. Do you have to eat ...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: June 6, 1861

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Davin! Have had a talk concerning him to-day with two opposite extremes of people. Mrs. Chesnut, my mother-in-law, praises everybody, go...