Following the War of 1812, Henry Clay propounded what became known as the "American System". It advocated federally financed internal improvements (primarily roads and canals), a high protective Tariff, and cooperation with South American patriots to enhance the American status as a leader in the...
Democracy An American Novel by Henry Adams First published anonymously, March 1880, and soon in various unauthorized editions. It wasn't until the 1925 edition that Adams was listed as author. Henry Adams remarked (ironically as usual), "The wholesale pi
The Attorney General of Arkansas argues for a reversal on the premise that the question of whether an indigent state defendant is entitled to the assistance of counsel is one "which traditionally in the American system of government belongs to the Legislatures, not to the courts." We are remin...
Additionally, Henry's law constant is a gas law used to measure the volatility of a chemical, indicating the likelihood of its displacement to the air, relative to water. From: Advances in Ecological Research, 2022 About this pageSet alert ...
When the war broke out, Henry had made up his mind that his company would never manufacture weaponry. But when the Navy proposed the mass production of small ships to chase German submarines, he approved to do so. It was his expertise in mass production that made the Federal Government appr...
Henry Clay–Painted at Ashland by Dodge for The Hon. Andrew Ewing of Tennessee-The Original Hangs in Mr. Watterson’s Library at “Mansfield” W. P. Hardee, Lieutenant General C.S.A. John Bell of Tennessee–In 1860 Presidential Candidate “Union Party”–“Bell and Everett” Ticket Artemus...
In such a neighborhood as this, boards and shingles, lime and bricks, are cheaper and more easily obtained than suitable caves, or whole logs, or bark in sufficient quantities, or even well-tempered clay or flat stones. I speak understandingly on this subject, for I have made myself ...
(1953): 1 – Mt Hillers central complex; 2 – Bulldog Peak intrusion; 3 – Stewart Ridge intrusion; 4 – Specks Ridge intrusion; 5 – Chaparral Hills Laccolith; 6 – Specks Canyon; 7 – speculated feeder system to the Trachyte Mesa intrusion; 8 – Sawtooth Ridge intrusion; 9 –Black ...
“I’ll go to the American Consul; I’ll borrow some money of him – just for the few days, on the strength of the telegram.” Morgan was hilarious. “Show him the telegram – then collar the money and stay!” Pemberton entered into the joke sufficiently to reply that for Morgan he...
I heard it proposed lately that two young men should travel together over the world, the one without money, earning his means as he went, before the mast and behind the plow, the other carrying a bill of exchange in his pocket. It was easy to see that they could not long be ...