be recognized, it is at least time for common sense to acquiesce [agree] with decent grace in the inevitable and the irrevocable. • . . . Why, were other reasoning wanting, in favor of now elevating this question of the reception of Texas into the Union, out of the lower region of...
Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 519, 660, 662; Randolph Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989); Paul ...
were dangers in their own right. These tribes, known to the Americans collectively as Seminoles, migrated into the region over the course of the eighteenth century and established settlements, tilled fields, and tended herds
Founding father Benjamin Rush publishes an anti-slavery statement, An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon Slavekeeping. It is a landmark document.[32] Ezra Stiles, the President of Yale College, and Samuel Hopkins, a clergyman, advocate for a program to colo...
Settlements had begun on New River, a branch of the Kanawha, and on the sources of the Yadkin and French Broad.6 The King attempted to arrest the advance by his proclamation of 1763,7 forbidding settlements beyond the sources of the rivers flowing into the Atlantic, but in vain. In the...
in vaults somewhere else…kill Crazy Horse, kill Sitting Bull; harvest wave after wave of immigrants’ dreams and send the wised-up dreamers on their way; plow the topsoil until it blows into the ocean; ship out the wheat; ship out the cattle; dig up the earth itself and burn it in ...
Lisain the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company in 1809. During theWar of 1812, Pres.James Monroecommissioned Clark territorial governor ofMissouri, a position he held from 1813 to 1820. In this role Clark protected settlements and conducted the peace-seeking Treaty of Portage des Sioux in 1815. ...