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Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. 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...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Daniel Webster to Mr. Plumer, February 14, 1851

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Washington, February 14, 1851. DEAR SIR,—I wish it were in my power to find time to write or speak of your father, and gather up the recol...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, December 10, 1819

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MONTICELLO, December 10, 1819. DEAR SIR,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of November the 23d. The banks, bankrupt law, man...

Senator John C. Calhoun’s Speech on the Oregon Bill, June 27, 1848

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[Delivered in the United States Senate, June 27th, 1848.] THERE is a very striking difference between the position on which the slaveholdi...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: [Sunday], May 8, 1864

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VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Services for John Brown at Concord, Massachusetts, December 2, 1859

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The martyrdom of John Brown was most worthily celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. The town which inaugurated the first American "Insu...