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Excerpt from America Free or America Slave: An Address on the State of the Country, Delivered by John Jay, at Bedford, Westchester County, New York, October 8th, 1856 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work,...

Excerpt from The American Foreign Service Europe was advised of Sanborn contracts and moiety spoils, of the whisky frauds in the Western States, of the resolution and skill with which Mr. Secretary Bristow unearthed and grappled with that daring combination to defraud the Treasury, and of the treatment awarded to that faithful officer for the efforts to purify his Department. Europe was advised also of the attempted impeachment of the Secreta...

Excerpt from The Great Conspiracy: An Address Delivered at Mt, Kisco, West Chester County, New York, on the 4th of July, 1861, The 86th Anniversary of American Independence The midnight ride of Paul Revere, famed in history and song, rousing the sleepers as he passed to hasten to defend their coun try, created no deeper emotion among the colonists of that day, than (lid our electric wires ¿ashing far and wide the news of the assault on Sumpte...

Excerpt from The Peace Negotiations of 1782 and 1783: An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society on Its Seventy-Ninth Anniversary, Tuesday, November 27, 1883 You remark that the time at which this Anniversary will occur sug gests as a fitting subject for the occasion the history of the important treaty of peace negotiated with Great Britain, notwithstanding the effort to subject it to the policy, in¿uence, and authority of Fr...

Excerpt from The Progress and Results of Emancipation in the English West Indies: A Lecture Delivered Before the Philomathian Society of the City of New-York Our bosoms glow with sympathetic emotion, and we are feign to imagine, that though other lands might boast their love of freedom, Switzerland was the very home of her worshippers, and that each drop of Switzer blood that had stained her snowy glaciers, or been drunk in by her green valle...

Excerpt from Union League Club of New York: Address of the President, June 23, 1866 When I acknowledged from Naples the notification of my election as President, I proposed to address you at an early day in reference to the pending national issues in which the country is so deeply interested, and in regard to which our countrymen in Europe are neither unobservant nor indifferent. The fast-changing issues, however, reminded me that it would be...

Excerpt from The New York Election and the State of the Country: Mr. Jay's Address to the Citizens of Westchester County, on the Approaching State Election Fellow Citizens of Westchester County: The approaching election to choose the Governor of the State and members of the Legislature for Congress is, perhaps, in its bearings upon the nation at large, the most important that was ever held in this or any other of the United States. We are i...

Excerpt from Memorials of Peter A. Jay: Compiled for His Descendants by His Great-Grandson Birth and parentage of Peter A. Jay, 1 Early life at Liberty Hall, 1. Appointment of John Jay to the Spanish mission, 2. Removal of the Jay family from Rye to Fishkill, 3. John Jay and Mrs. Jay sail for Europe, 3. Little Peter engaged in study, 4. Death of Grandfather Jay, 5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...

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Excerpt from Judge Wm, H. Robertson, the Katonah Post-Office, the Willett Swindle, and the Harlem Bridge The Katonah case, from the length of the contest, with its varying phases, its ramifications extending from Albany to Washington, with its side issues branching off into the Church, the Bar, the Board of Supervisors, and the Collectorship of Internal Revenue, has become a part of the political history of Westchester county, and its in¿uenc...

Excerpt from International Copyright: Memorials of John Jay and of William C. Bryant and Others, in Favor of an International Copyright LawThe present system is unfavorable to American publishers and the workmen in their employ, by rendering the business of reprinting speen lative and unsafe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproducti...

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Shells: Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, Together With Descriptions of New or Rare Species Lam., East Indies, Desh. Enc. Vers. T. 3, p. 852, no. Say, Rhode Island, Con. A. M. Conch. P. 28. Blain., new-york. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

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