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...Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...s everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York Sta... ...is afternoon—mighty good duck-shot. The tall husk beyond him is Jack Elder—Jackson Elder—owns the planing-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite ... ...he arm of Kennicott’s chair. He was gossiping with Sam Clark, Luke Dawson, Jackson Elder of the planing-mill, Chet Dashaway, Dave Dyer, Harry Haydock,... ...Thus ended the literary portion of the conversation, and for seven minutes Jackson Elder outlined reasons for believing that the pike-fishing was bett... ...crying to each other that it was a magnificent day. Kennicott had borrowed Jackson Elder’s red and white English setter, a complacent dog with a wavin... ...t her brusquely. During the pause after the first game she petitioned Mrs. Jackson Elder, “Don’t you think we ought to get up another bob-sled party s...

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...isputed. “My God!” he said; and silently handed his glass to old Sillerton Jackson. Newland Archer, following Lefferts’s glance, saw with sur- prise t... ...as installed in the opposite corner. 8 The Age of Innocence Mr. Sillerton Jackson had returned the opera-glass to Lawrence Lefferts. The whole of the... ...r Cuba. But these mysteries, and many oth- ers, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson’s breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repe... ...w. The club box, therefore, waited in visible suspense while Mr. Sillerton Jackson handed back Lawrence Lefferts’s op- era-glass. For a moment he sile... ...cher, was to be announced within a few weeks. No, he felt as old Sillerton Jackson felt; he did not think the Mingotts would have tried it on! He knew... ...he new ideas in his scien- tific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave- fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no u... ...ay’s sturdy brougham-horse was carrying them northward as if he had been a Kentucky trotter. Archer choked with the sense of 203 Edith Wharton wasted...

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...d gallantry displayed in the cap- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various... ...adron commanded by Flag-officer Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel g... ...SAXTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, May, 24 1862. 2 P.M. GENERAL SAXTON: Geary reports Jackson with 20,000 moving from Ashby’s Gap by the Little River turnpike, t... ...importance. Y ou are therefore directed by the Presi- dent to move against Jackson at Harrisonburg and operate against the enemy in such way as to rel... ...ranklin on Harrisonburg to relieve General Banks, and cap- ture or destroy Jackson’s and Ewell’s forces. You are in- structed, laying aside for the pr... ...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ...here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the... ...tin Blair, Governor of Michigan. J. B. Temple, President Military Board of Kentucky. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee. H. R. Gamble, Governor of ... ...r Johnson, at Nashville, is in great trouble and anxiety about a raid into Kentucky. The governor is a true and valu- able man—indispensable to us in ...

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...mediately facing the President’s house, is an equestrian statue of General Jackson. It is very bad; but that it is not nearly as bad as it might be is... ..., 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Flor... ... be the Representative of to- morrow. Mr. Crittenden, who was Senator from Kentucky, is now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in ... ...as—was the ground put forward by South Carolina for secession when General Jackson was President and Mr. Calhoun was the hero of the South. Calhoun bo... ...rtain day if that tariff were not abolished. The tariff was so absurd that Jackson and his government were forced to abandon it—would have abandoned i... ... under that threat it was necessary that Calhoun should be defied. General Jackson proposed a compromise tariff, which was odious to Calhoun—not on it... ...ll probably be dictated by the North. It may still be hoped that Missouri, Kentucky, Vir- ginia, and Maryland will go with the North, and be res- cued... ... army of Virginia was called, of which McClellan held the command; that of Kentucky, under General Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio;... ...atives, in dictating to Sena- tors—has come up since the days of President Jackson, and with it has come corruption and unclean hands. De- mocracy mus...

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...ite me at your first leisure. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO JOHN MATHERS, JACKSONVILLE, ILL. SPRINGFIELD, JULY 20, 1858. JNO. MA THERS, Esq. MY DEAR ... ...wonder if there are some Kentuckians about this audi- ence—we are close to Kentucky; and whether that be so or not, we are on elevated ground, and, by... ...e it. In this matter Judge Douglas is preparing the public mind for you of Kentucky to make perpetual that good thing in your estimation, about which ... ...not to Kentuckians! Mr. LINCOLN: I beg permission to speak as I please. In Kentucky perhaps, in many of the slave States certainly, you are trying to ... ...rence to color; and he knows very well that you may entertain that idea in Kentucky as much as you please, but you will never win any Northern support... ... the con- trolling of it as other property would be just about what you in Kentucky should want. I understand the controlling of prop- erty means the ... ...ly, A. LINCOLN. We consent: R. MALLORY . H. GRIDER. G . W . DUNLAP . J. S. JACKSON. C. A. WICKLIFFE. August 5, 1861. I repeat, I would like for Col. B... ...land and Sound, Amelia Island, the towns of St. Mary’s, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville and Fernandina. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 358 The Writings of Abraham ...

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...ANSION, WASHINGTON, January 6, 1864. 2 P.M. GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE, Frankfort, Kentucky: Y ours of yesterday received. Nothing is known here about Genera... ...derstand how doing so is bad faith and dishonor, nor yet how it so exposes Kentucky to ruin. Military men here do not perceive how it exposes Kentuck... ...- PARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, February 28, 1864. GENERAL L. THOMAS, Louisville, Kentucky: I see your despatch of yesterday to the Secretary of War. I wish ... ...GTON, March 28, 1864. HON. SECRETARY OF W AR. MY DEAR SIR:—The Governor of Kentucky is here, and desires to have the following points definitely fixed... ...ed: First. That the quotas of troops furnished, and to be fur- nished, by Kentucky may be adjusted upon the basis as actu- ally reduced by able-bodie... ...RY: Chaplain Fitzgibbon yesterday sent me a despatch invoking Clemency for Jackson, Stewart, and Randall, who are to be shot to-day. The despatch is ...

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...d one died in a lunatic asylum. It was in the blood. She was from Lexington, Kentucky. Name was Horton before she was married.” And so on, by the hour... ...d. First, the new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger trav... ...elp prospering. When I turned out, in the morning, we had passed Co lumbus, Kentucky, and were approaching Hickman, a pretty town, perched on a hands... ...as at a landing called Compromise. Half the church and half the aisle was in Kentucky, the other half in Tennessee. Sundays you’d see the families dri... ...teresting relics of the war. Also a fine oil painting representing Stonewall Jackson’s last inter view with General Lee. Both men are on horseback. J... ...nd one label will fit it as well as another— First Interview between Lee and Jackson. Last Interview between Lee and Jackson. Jackson Introducing Hims... ... Last Interview between Lee and Jackson. Jackson Introducing Himself to Lee. Jackson Accepting Lee’s Invitation to Dinner. Jackson Declining Lee’s Inv... ...itation to Dinner. Jackson Declining Lee’s Invitation to Dinner—with Thanks. Jackson Apologizing for a Heavy Defeat. Jackson Reporting a Great Victory... ...ficient one; for it says quite plainly and satisfactorily, “Here are Lee and Jackson together.” The artist would have made it tell that this is Lee an...

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... substantiate it. This speech was published at length; and subsequently at Jacksonville Judge Douglas alluded to the matter. In the course of his spee... ...o hold me responsible for it, then for once in my life I will play General Jackson, and to the just extent I take the responsibility. I wish to say at... ...ed to this matter, and also that portion of Judge Douglas’s speech made at Jacksonville in answer to it. I shall thereby furnish the readers of this d... ...erhaps a month. I passed it by without noticing it at all till I found, at Jacksonville, Judge Douglas in the plenitude of his power is not willing to... ...k very special attention to the consideration of Judge Douglas’s speech at Jacksonville; and when you shall read his speech of to-day, I ask you to wa... ... me as trying to sustain the doctrine that we have a right to quarrel with Kentucky, or Virginia, or any of the slave States, about the institution of... ... the belief in the existence of, the right to interfere with the States of Kentucky or Virginia in doing as they pleased with slavery Or any other exi... ...on of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a general declaration in the act announcing to the world th... ...on of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a gen- eral declaration in the act announcing to the world ...

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... recharter was granted by Congress. That recharter was laid before General Jackson. It was urged upon him, when he denied the constitutionality of the... ...that the Supreme Court had decided that it was constitutional; and General Jackson then said that the Supreme Court had no right to lay down a rule to... ...oln: V ol Three I have heard Judge Douglas say that he approved of General Jackson for that act. What has now become of all his tirade about “resistan... ...vertheless did mean to go on the banks of the Ohio and throw missiles into Kentucky, to disturb them in their domestic institutions. I said in that sp... ...onal. The whole Democratic party revolted against that decision. Gen- eral Jackson himself asserted that he, as President, would not be bound to hold ... ...e the institution national? Not war. There is no danger that the people of Kentucky will shoulder their mus- kets, and, with a young nigger stuck on e... ...n. It is nothing that I point out to him that his great prototype, General Jackson, did not believe in the binding force of decisions. It is nothing t...

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... Lincoln’s in wretchedness. He first saw the light in a miserable hovel in Kentucky, on a farm con- sisting of a few barren acres in a dreary neighbor... ...usly of his outward appearance. So far he had been content with a garb of “Kentucky jeans,” not seldom ragged, usually patched, and always shabby. Now... ...politi- cal distinction before him, he paid his addresses to Mary Todd, of Kentucky, and was accepted. But then torment- ing doubts of the genuineness... ...ccommodated themselves to those of his more highborn wife; and though the “Kentucky jeans” apparel had long been dropped, his clothes of better mate- ... ...ar different from that of Washington, who was revered with awe, or that of Jackson, the uncon- querable hero, for whom party enthusiasm never grew wea... ...-roomed cabin without floor or window in what was then the wil- derness of Kentucky, in the heart of that frontier life which swiftly moved westward f... ...le she is otherwise. She accompanied a large party on the railroad cars to Jacksonville last Monday, and on her re- turn spoke, so that I heard of it,... ...sely equal in all respects, and such as now used by the cavalry company at Jacksonville. Second. Position: A plank ten feet long, and from nine to twe... ...our present policy, we shall all be ren- dered paupers ourselves.”—General Jackson’s Letter to Dr. Coleman. “When our manufactures are grown to a cert...

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...but indistinct phrases, in which “removal of deposites,” “panic,” “General Jackson,” and “revolution,” were the only words I could fairly under- stand... ...orgotten in New Y ork in a week.” Such was, indeed, the truth. One General Jackson had “re- moved the deposits,” as I afterwards learned, though I nev... ...ty thousand more. That accursed removal of the de- posits, and that tiger, Jackson, have done it all.” To own the truth, both the ladies were a little... ...ation of happiness that was high as the highest pinnacle of the caverns of Kentucky; raising me from the depths of Chimborazo.” Tom meant to reverse t... ...ou,” she said. “Chimborazo is not particularly low, nor are the caverns of Kentucky so strikingly elevated.” “Ascribe it all to that fatal, heart-thri...

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...who had been appointed by his predecessor: and I am not aware that General Jackson allowed a single removable functionary em- ployed in the Federal se... ...r democratic character to be met with in all parties – Struggle of General Jackson against the Bank. Parties In The United States A great distinction ... ...ica, con- tained the following article: In all this affair the language of Jackson has been that of a heartless despot, solely occupied with the prese... ...ence which military glory exer- cises upon the spirit of a nation. General Jackson, whom the Americans have twice elected to the head of their Govern-... ... of North Carolina, art. 31; Virginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art.... ...s the name of the river. These two States only differ in a single respect; Kentucky has ad- mitted slavery, but the State of Ohio has prohibited the e... ...er to New Or- leans across five hundred leagues of continent. The State of Kentucky was founded in 1775, the State of Ohio only twelve years later; bu... ...in Europe, and, at the present day, the population of Ohio exceeds that of Kentucky by two hundred and fifty thousand souls.* These opposite con- sequ... ...l improvements – W aste lands – Indians – The Bank – The T ariff – General Jackson. The maintenance of the existing institutions of the several States...

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...s ev ery session. It is said that on the occasion of a visit from General Jackson or General Harrison to this town (I forget which, but it is not to ... ...President on what he had to say, and wouldn’t bate him a grain. Another, a Kentucky farmer, six feet six in height, with his hat on, and his hands und... ...we shortly afterwards had a new kind of visitor in the person of a certain Kentucky Giant whose name is Porter, and who is of the moderate height of s... ... being versed in the vagabond arts of sleight of hand and hocus pocus. The Kentucky Giant was but another illustration of the truth of this position. ... ...the following negroes: Randal, has one ear cropped; Bob, has lost one eye; Kentucky Tom, has one jaw broken.’ American Notes – Dickens 247 ‘Ran away...

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...rs in here.” I also remember attending a revival meeting in the Rev. Henry Jackson’s meeting-house, at New Bedford, and going up the broad aisle to fi... ...ery state of the American Union, where slavery exists, except the state of Kentucky, there are laws absolutely prohibitory of education among the slav... ...e finest feelings of human nature are expressed in them. “Lucy Neal,” “Old Kentucky Home,” and “Uncle Ned,” can make the heart sad as well as merry, a...

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...ver seen. The stranger had killed this man’s friend in a fight, this man’s Kentucky training made it a duty to kill the stranger for it. He neglected ... ...y points of interest which he wove into his stories, such as Holiday Hill, Jackson’s Island, or Mark T wain Cave, are now monuments to his genius. Han...

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...e stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst th... ...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...

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...e stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war horse; who didst th... ...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...

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...thing about her health. I reckon it will scarcely be in our power to visit Kentucky this year. Be- sides poverty and the necessity of attending to bus... ...need of having their feelings corrected than mine were. Since I saw you at Jacksonville, I have had no more suspicion of the Whigs of Morgan than of t... .... I mention the Coles and Edgar courts in order that if I should not reach Jacksonville at the time named you may understand the reason why. I do not,... ...here were many, but he was very confident there were some. His friend from Kentucky near him, [Mr. Gaines] told him he himself was one. There was stil... ...s tributaries. They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Loui- siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois... ... all others whom I have heard speak assail it furiously. A new member from Kentucky [Mr. Clark], of very considerable ability, was in particular con- ... ...e greatest real objection to improvements, and has been so held by General Jackson, Mr. Polk, and all others, I believe, till now. But now, behold, th... ...ntury? Has he no acquaintance with the ample military coat tail of General Jackson? Does he not know that his own party have run the five last Preside... ...der the same cover? Yes, sir, that coat-tail was used not only for General Jackson himself, but has been clung to, with the grip of death, by every De...

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... myself by my labor. He will not stay at the Glen House, but will go on to—Jackson’s I think they call the next hotel, at which he will sleep. From th... ..., South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky, 118 North America V ol. 1 Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, and Mary... ...rop- erly belongs to the West. As I now write, the struggle is going on in Kentucky and Missouri. In Missouri the slave population is barely more than... ...s by free States of the West, and its soil, let us hope, must become free. Kentucky I must leave as doubtful, though I am inclined to believe that sla... ...though I am inclined to believe that slavery will be abolished there also. Kentucky, at any rate, will never throw in its lot with the Southern States... ...g the three or four last presi- dencies, and I believe back to the time of Jackson, there has been an organized system of dishonesty in the man- ageme... ...between it and Boston was opened in 1835, under the superintendence of Mr. Jackson, the gentleman by whom the purchase of the canal had in the first i... ... their first object. I think it may be taken for granted that when Messrs. Jackson and Lowell went about their task, their grand idea was to place fac... ...ggle came, he could not forget his party in his duty as President. General Jackson’s position was much the same when Mr. Calhoun, on the question of t...

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...e, and any colour you choose that is not white; and Tweezy, who comes from Kentucky, with an affliction of his left hip, which makes him a little unce... ...ave been misinfohmed, most of your prominent siahs, suh, are impo’ted from Kentucky; an’ I’m from Paduky.” There was the least little touch of pride i... ...e: “I want all you here ter understand thet ther ain’t no Kan- sas, ner no Kentucky, ner yet no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ hor... ...s liable to jounce ye a little. Fifteen an’ a half out, after the grade at Jackson’s crossin’. You’ll know it by a farmhouse an’ a windmill an’ five m... ...own even as Comanche had done at the Newtons. He whirled down the grade to Jackson’s cross- ing, saw the windmill west of the maples, felt the badly l...

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...overnment, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship Ann M’Kim of Baltimore. It would probably never h... ... but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget. He called himself Bill Jackson; and I know no one of all my accidental acquaintances to whom I... ...kin, and one or two stanchions above the deck. We saw our handsome sailor, Jackson, on the forecastle, with the Sandwich Islanders, working away t... ... that, at this time, there was a company of forty trappers and hunters from Kentucky, with their rifles, who had made their head quar ters at the Pu... ...ening destruction to the rebels, but never stirred from his fort; for forty Kentucky hunters, with their rifles, were a match for a whole regiment o... ...rdly got the boats beached, and their heads out, before our old friend, Bill Jackson, the handsome English sailor, who steered the Loriotte’s boat, ... ...ir faculties. Twice, their boat filled, and came broadside upon the beach. Jackson swore at them for a parcel of savages, and promised to flog every... ...ies.* Lies! thought I, that must be the man who came across the country from Kentucky to Monterey while we lay there in the Pilgrim in 1835, and made ...