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...llinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford c... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ... light, exciting love story to read? My husband’s going away for a week.” 14 Main Street She was fond of the other librarians; proud of their aspirat... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ... to the railroad track, whose direct- ness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedes- trians on the plains. She stepped from tie to tie, in lo...

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... nor was there any semblance of a garden. My heart sank. “That!” I cried. 14 Kidnapped The woman’s face lit up with a malignant anger. “That is the h... ...the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all that, and before the sun bega... ...oor, and set forth upon our walk. The wind, being in that cold quarter the north-west, blew nearly in our faces as we went. It was the month of June; ... ...unders were those unhappy criminals who were sent over- seas to slavery in North America, or the still more unhappy innocents who were kidnapped or tr... ..., as he set off towards his boat: “But, come, what can I bring ye from the Carolinas? Any friend of Mr. Balfour’s can command. A roll of tobacco? Indi... ... great good from it in the land I was going to. The ship was bound for the Carolinas; and you must not suppose that I was going to that place merely a... ...ind when it’ll be good for you to have friends; and that’s when we come to Carolina.” Here Mr. Riach whispered him a little. “V ery right, sir,” said ... ...e; he can shoot by the ear at several yards, and has been often accused of highway robberies, and once of murder.” “The cream of it is,” says I, “that...

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...s time. I regret that I have not my Springfield speech before me, but the 14 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five judge has quoted one particul... ...d till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, an... ... the new Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserved by the Ordi- nance o... ...y other terms would be as foolish as unprincipled. It would lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The questi... ...y. No great while after the adoption of the original Constitu- tion, North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the S... ...now known to have been otherwise, unless it may be John Rutledge, of South Carolina. The sum of the whole is, that of our thirty-nine fathers who fram... ...y, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, “stand ... ...is coercion? What is invasion? W ould the march- ing of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward... ...zed in breach of trust. It commands not a single port on the coast nor any highway out from its pretended capital by land. Under these circumstances G...

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...rd upon the sub- ject, “The bridge was turned!” The Cresslers lived on the North Side. The incident seemed to be closed with the abruptness of a slamm... ... one of them well enough to address him familiarly by his Christian name. 14 The Pit This was Landry Court, a young fellow just turned twenty-three, ... ... The carriage rolled on through the darkened downtown streets, towards the North Side, where the Dearborns lived. They could hear the horses plashing ... ...t once, the strange appearance of the neighbourhood as the carriage turned north from out Jackson Street into La Salle, forced itself upon her attenti... ...er, at a time when Page was ready for the High School. The mother, a North Carolina girl, had died long before. Laura’s education had been unusual. Af... ... the stores and ware- houses to bursting. Food mingled with the mud of the highway. The very dray horses were gorged with an un- ending nourishment of...

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...5 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH, AS A SLIGHT TOKEN ... ...el slavery in Maryland, our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing a... ...eginning as far back as 1827, when the Rev. Samuel E. Cornish and John B. 14 My Bondage and My Freedom Russworm (a graduate of Bowdoin college, and a... ...nion, if carried to a successful issue, would only place the people of the north in the same relation to American slavery which they now bear to the s... ...addressed him in the usual way of speaking to colored people on the public highways of the south: “Well, boy, who do you belong to?” “To Col. Lloyd,” ... ...ve that of preferring liberty to a life of bondage, drawn along the public highway—firmly bound together—tramping through dust and heat, bare- 195 Fr... ...ofaning and abusing the waters of the noble Chesapeake, by making them the highway from slavery to freedom. Here was a broad road of destruction to sl... ...ound. Whether on the coast of Africa, among the savage tribes, or in South Carolina, among the refined and civilized, slavery is the same, and its acc...

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...oked ahead; and, by George, I was no longer pioneering, I had struck an old track overgrown, and was restoring an old path. So I laboured till I was i... ... will be about, so you can give him the benefit of this long scrawl. Never say that I can’t write a letter, say that I don’t. —Yours ever, my dearest ... ...ber dawn, a dove-coloured dawn, insensi- bly brightening to gold. I was looking at it some while over the down-hill profile of our eastern road, when ... ...of the Stevensons with great pleasure and profit and some advance; one chapter and a part drafted. The whole promises well Chapter I. Domes- tic Anna... ...s Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. A Scottish Family, A F... ...ile, through the accident of a fire at an inn. She must not run from a marriage, I think; it would bring her in the wrong frame of mind. Once I can ge... ..., only sleepy and tired easily, slept yesterday from 11 to 11. 45, from 1 to 2. 50, went to bed at 8 P . M. , and with an hour’s interval slept till 6... ...lains scarce at all. Yesterday, she went down sola (at least accompanied by a groom) to pay a visit; Belle, Lloyd and I went a walk up the mountain ro... ... to the bit- ter end; but I came in 3rd at the last on my little Jack, who stuck to it gallantly, and awoke the praises of some dis- criminating perso...

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...ion between the Mingotts (through the Thorleys) with the Dallases of South Carolina, and that of the relationship of the elder branch of Philadelphia ... ...- cher as an even more disrespectful way of describing New Y ork society. 14 The Age of Innocence III. IT INV ARIABLY happened in the same way. Mrs. ... ...ost honoured families; she had been the lovely Regina Dallas (of the South Carolina branch), a penniless beauty introduced to New York society by her ... ...om on the ground floor, as if watching calmly for life and fashion to flow northward to her solitary doors. She seemed in no hurry to have them come, ... ...he carriage. Presently, however, coming down a foot- path that crossed the highway, he caught sight of a slight figure in a red cloak, with a big dog ... ...t reaches and ugly gov- ernment chimneys of Goat Island, the bay spreading northward in a shimmer of gold to Prudence Island with its low growth of oa... ...o the light carriage and drove off. The day was perfect. A breeze from the north drove little puffs of white cloud across an ultramarine sky, with a b... ...remind themselves that Beaufort W AS; but, after all, if a Dallas of South Carolina took his view of the case, and glibly talked of his soon being “on...

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...aste and good sense being most conspicuous. The history of the Church and 14 The Confessions Empire by Le Sueur, Bossuett’s Discourses on Universal H... ... no end to our projected travels, and we im- mediately directed our course northward, rather for the plea- sure of crossing the Alps, than from a supp... ... proper place, but which ought not to be omitted. My uncle Bernard died at Carolina, where he had been employed some years in the building of Charles ... ...ad concluded on was a valley between two toler- ably high hills, which ran north and south; at the bottom, among the trees and pebbles, ran a rivulet,... ...that name. The second gentle- man, chosen by M. de Montaigu, was an outlaw highway- man from Mantua, called Dominic Vitali, to whom the ambassador int... ...to di 303 Rousseau conidenza’, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, althou...

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...the hour; and as I saw, one after another, pleasant villages, carts upon the highway and fish- ers by the stream, and heard cockcrows and cheery voice... ... Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songf... ... American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and sprang 14 Across the Plains from my unfamiliarity with the language. For althoug... ...; the lamps were lit; a party of wild young men, who got off next evening at North Platte, stood to- gether on the stern platform, singing “The Sweet ... ...t it contained, as I passed through, one person in- completely civilised. At North Platte, where we supped that evening, one man asked another to pass... ...ey came from al- most every quarter of that Continent. All the States of the North had sent out a fugitive to cross the plains with me. From Virginia,... ...n they admire. The vigorous forest air, the silence, the majestic avenues of highway, the wilderness of tumbled boulders, the great age and dignity of... ... think of his material and nothing else, is, for awhile at least, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwel...

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...n search of the inspi- ration. By now he was not quite half way across the north- ern and narrowest corner of Los Muertos, at this point some eight mi... ...e line of wire fence that separated it from the third division; and to the north, seen faint and blue through the haze and shimmer of the noon sun, a ... ...le of telegraph poles showed the line of the railroad and marked Derrick’s north- east boundary. The road over which Presley was travel- ling ran almo... ... this further delay, Presley was less troubled. Dyke and he were well ac- 14 The Octopus quainted and the best of friends. The picturesqueness of the... ...s a young man it had been his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in t... ...runk at a street crossing. Gethings of the San Pablo had taken a shot at a highwayman. Hooven had bayonet- ted a French Chasseur at Sedan. An old Span... ...in points seemed to be settled upon, no one knew how, as indisputable. The highwaymen had been four in number and had stopped the train by pulling the... ...t. Three days after the hold-up, a sheep-herder was found who had seen the highwayman on a ridge in the higher mountains, to the northeast of Taurusa.... ...every citizen of every State from Maine to Mexico, from the Dakotas to the Carolinas, have you not the monster in your boundaries? If it is not a Trus...

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.... This Don Quixote-like twist is less common, though Jane Austen’s famous “Northanger Abbey” and Eaton Stannard Barrett’s little-known but very funny ... ... that Anna will not prove as fine a young woman as Katherine, when put to 14 James Fenimore Cooper the trial.” “Pray,” said the young lawyer with gre... ...lly gliding from the shrubbery to catch a glimpse of the passengers on the highway, when Charles appeared riding at a full gallop towards the house; h... ...ft the room. “I understand that your father intends spending his winter in Carolina, for his health,” said Miss Emmerson to Katherine. “Y es,” returne... ...did not comprehend it. But Charles did not leave her long in doubt. On the north side of the Mohawk, and at about fifty miles from its mouth, is a mou...

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...struck. 9 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE ROGER BROCK was almost home. After being up north at col- lege for five years, he was starting his first job as a high ... ...ht to his room, waving his mother off when she asked how things had gone. 14 SUSAN BRACKEN CHAPTER 4 THE NEXT MORNING, Lacey resumed the sorting of h... ...orking as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to ... ...Baby limo, indeed! My modest car has assumed a higher status! On the drive north Jake told Lacey about his cabin. “I love the lake. The cabin’s not mu... ...t want to darken their happy mood. After about an hour they pulled off the highway and into the city of Barrie. The streets were in need of repair and... ...o Florida. Lacey hurriedly called Danny to cancel bridge for a few CHAPTER 14 86 SUSAN BRACKEN weeks. “Sorry. Jake just got the idea and said we are ... ...entimeters of snow is expected, with white- outs and zero visibility. Main highways are closed.” A list of cancelled events was scrolling across the s... ...“Well, yes, I do. My girlfriends and I like to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for spring vacations. It’s breathtaking there when the azaleas and... ...inched her bottom. “I’ll fol- low you.” Soon two cars were headed down the highway toward an- other night of lovemaking at Jana’s little house. 185 A...

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...VII: NIAGARA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI ...........................................................

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...e by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ........................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST................................................................ ...e is no road within two miles of the house. The lake therefore is the only highway, and that is frozen up for four months in the year. When frozen, ho... ...exas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky... ... slave population is barely more than a tenth of the whole, while in South Carolina and Mississippi it is more than half. And, therefore, I venture to... ...,917 Florida 81,885 63,809 145,694 Georgia 615,366 467,461 1,082,827 South Carolina 308,186 407,185 715,371 North Carolina 679,965 328,377 1,008,342 T... ...tely at a distance from any thoroughfare. At first the margins of nature’s highways, the navigable rivers and lakes, were cleared. But as the railway ... ...country of still greater extent. No river on the face of the globe forms a highway for the produce of so wide an extent of agricultural land. The Miss...

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... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...oughts to the Future. 26 Democracy in America Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, ... ...n where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of Nort... ...w England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this situation. See “Pitkin... ...ially at the words Selectmen, Assessors, Collectors, Schools, Surveyors of Highways. I take one example in a thousand: the State prohibits travelling ... ...s Assessors, Collector, Constables, Overseer of the Poor, Super- visors of Highways; and in the Acts of a general nature of the State of Ohio, the Act... ...Appraisers of Property, T ownship’s T reasurer, Constables, Supervisors of Highways. 98 Democracy in America of their mother country with them into t... ...them had earned a considerable degree of celebrity. South 217 Tocqueville Carolina alone, which afterwards took up arms in the same cause, sent sixty... ...ry office or place within this State.” See also the constitutions of North Carolina, art. 31; Virginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, ...

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...rers from Europe was to form a material part of the domestic policy of the Northern States. Now the negro is a human being, as well as an apprentice o... ... the struggles of faction. When men have a specific and important purpose 14 New Y ork in view, it is but natural they should bend most of its collat... ...k can legally be deprived of the authority to punish for theft, to lay out highways, to incorporate banks, and all the 16 New Y ork ordinary interest... ...ter all, is the really sore point in controversy between the South and the North. The fugitive slave has been, and will be given up to the legal claim... ...e legal claims of his master; and, in a vast majority of the people of the North, there is no disposition to disturb the legislative compromise that h... ...ation from Europe, it cannot be long before the upper counties of even the Carolinas and Georgia will make the discovery that the introduction of a si...

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...MMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The third section of the ... ...this communication as soon as possible by extending your right-wing to the north of Richmond. It is believed that this communication can be safely est... ... It is believed that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to pre... ...Y AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having delib- er... ...ncompatible. The persons in these three States: Georgia Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore held as slaves are therefore declared forever free. “By... ...Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether enemy are north of Banks, moving on Winchester? What is the latest you have? A. LINCO... ...States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansa... ...ays’ run by steamers. Unlike Liberia, it is a great line of travel—it is a highway. The country is a very excellent one for any people, and with great... ...r physical condition. The particular place I have in view is to be a great highway from the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and this p...

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............................................................................. 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS ..................................... ...uthor was only fourteen. There is a little dimness in the filling up, but 14 Poe in Five V olumes the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as f... ...at this period of my ascension, was beautiful indeed. To the westward, the northward, and the southward, as far as I could see, lay a boundless sheet ... ...he entire Atlantic coasts of France and Spain, with a small portion of the northern part of the continent of Africa. Of individual edifices not a trac... ...a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands. Far away to the northward I perceived a thin, white, and exceedingly brilliant line, or str... ...rs, and took up his residence at Sullivan’s Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. This Island is a very singular one. It consists of little else th... ...cean, has been subdued by science, and will become a common and convenient highway for mankind. The Atlantic has been actually crossed in a Balloon! ... ...insworth’s MS.] One, P .M. W e are in full view of the low coast of South Carolina. The great problem is accomplished. We have crossed the Atlan- ti...

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.....................13 Eidolons................................................14 For Him I Sing....................................18 When I Read the B... ...s much? We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, ... ...ht, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life o... ...ancestor continents away group’d together, The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between. See, vast trackless spaces, As... ...he cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road. O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me? Do you say Venture no... ...ar waters, the great trout swimming, In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree to... ...rling and rising; Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina’s coast, the shad fishery and the herring fishery, the large... ...ri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs, To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs, To Texas and so along up toward Cal... ... What best I see in thee, Is not that where thou mov’st down history’s great highways, Ever undimm’d by time shoots warlike victory’s dazzle, Or that ...

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...At the End of the Game The Players Shake Hands ...................................................................................................... 14 Yong Hao Buffet .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 The Island of Saba ............................

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....................................................... ..................... 14 Yong Hao Buffet ........................................................... ... This computer trend is happening nationwide. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, each incoming student was supplied with an IBM ThinkPad. Th... ...computer trend is happening nationwide. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, each incoming student was supplied with an IBM ThinkPad. The reas... ...ed Dalton, Mary M. When Laptops are Required, How Does Campus Life Change? North Carolina 1997. 25 November 1998. <http://www.cortland.edu/ www/cate/l... ...ton, Mary M. When Laptops are Required, How Does Campus Life Change? North Carolina 1997. 25 November 1998. <http://www.cortland.edu/ www/cate/library... ...ar 2000 and beyond. The Future Jenny Poust B B B B B est of F F F F F our 14 At the End of the Game The Players Shake Hands Shawn Campbell F ootball... ... transferred from Rice High School in New York City to Pocono Mountain in northeastern Penn- sylvania. The first thing I did on registration day was ... ... in shape. I never thought I would do more than ride along the side of the highway. I now ride mountain courses that I never thought I would walk on l...

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...The symbolic end of rivalry comes when I am playing the song in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the very moment that you are both downloading and list... ...mbolic end of rivalry comes when I am playing the song in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the very moment that you are both downloading and listening ... ...pasture to another. The ranchers become strong propo- nents of “public, open highways” (though some people muse darkly that they do very well out of t... ...arkly that they do very well out of that rule). Still, most people want open highways; the system seems to work pretty well, in fact. 83 37278_u01.qxd... ...mers’ fields, stop quickly to grab some corn or a lettuce, and be back on the highway before they can be caught. Of course, the farmers’ costs have als... ...wise they would not work in Lexmark printers. Static Control Components is a North Carolina company that manufactures chips whose main function is to ... ...hey would not work in Lexmark printers. Static Control Components is a North Carolina company that manufactures chips whose main function is to send t... ...ouses to make new ones. This point is not confined to music. Earlier I quoted Northrop Frye: “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of... ...Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800–1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2009). Of course, the history of copyright or...

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...site for preparing that beautiful and happy invention, without which these northern parts of the world could scarce have afforded a very comfortable h... ...ment must always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either ... ...parts of Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T art... ...s greater surplus should belong to the landlord than in corn countries. In Carolina, where the planters, as in other British colonies, are generally b... ...r money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and... ...gh the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very... ...ylvania, £4500 each; that of New Jersey, £1200; that of Virginia and South Carolina, £8000 each. The civil establishments of Nova Scotia and Georgia a... ...ments in North America, in short, exclusive of those of Maryland and North Carolina, of which no exact account has been got, did not, before the comme... ...e without bring- ing any burden upon the general revenue of the society. A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may, in most cases, be b...

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...hall engage in no new cases that might delay me. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. 14 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two VERSES WRITTEN BY LINCOLN AFTE... ...e Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether the people of that settlement, or a majority... ... Colonel Doniphan, too, the favorite Whig of Missouri, and who overran all Northern Mexico, on his return home in a public speech at St. Louis condemn... ...it seems to me, the difficulty is cleared. One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [Mr. Rhett] very much deprecates these statistics. He particularly... ...on the subject of the tariff, the currency, the improve- ment of our great highways, rivers, lakes, and harbors, the will of the people, as expressed ... ...mit I do not certainly know what he would do on the Wilmot Proviso. I am a Northern man or rather a Western Free-State man, with a constituency I beli... ...gs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two TO Dr. WILLIAM FITHIAN. SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 14, 1849. DR. WILLIAM FITHIAN, Danville, Ill. DEAR DOCTOR:—Your letter of t... ...lieve, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. As to the Northwestern Territory, provision had been made even be... ...oon after found its way into some of the messages of the Governor of South Carolina. We, however, look for and are not much shocked by political eccen...

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... happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various poli... ...em for the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 14 nation, formed in a residence of seven years chiefly among them, and ... ...n. Local inter ests are not less fostered by it. Our fellow citizens of the North engaged in navigation find great encourage ment in being made the ... ...r of his Country made “the” then “recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States” one of the subje... ...is Country made “the” then “recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States” one of the subjects of... ... American merchant marine, once the pride of the seas in all the great ocean highways of com merce. To my mind, few more important subjects so impera... ...of President McKinley, who died of an assassin’s gunshot wounds on September 14, 1901. Mr. Roosevelt had been President himself for three years at the... ...9 tion grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways. Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. The air rings ...

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...ys, but never once contained a men The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 14 tion of Tilbury Foster. Sally’s patience broke down at this point, and h... ...ock,* author of ‘An Address,’ etc., deliv ered at Sunflower Hill, South Carolina, and member of the Yale Law School. New Haven: published by T . H.... ...r. Valeer. “You are a set of base, insolent, and infernal rascals. Go, the northern star points your path through the dim twilight of the night; go, a... ...at way. Arthour T wain was a man of considerable note—a solici tor on the highway in William Rufus’s time. At about the age of thirty he went to one ... ...cover all the grades. Sometimes it was a king; sometimes it was a renowned highwayman; sometimes it was an unknown man killed in an extraordi nary wa... ... if we are the noblest work, the less said about it the better. We of the North poke fun at the South for its fondness of titles—a fondness for title... ...e have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our...

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...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ............................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ........................................................................ ...f these; and the everlasting crowd and throng of men with which the halls 14 North America V ol. 2 and passages of the house were always full certain... ...inia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Florida return only 1 ea... ...returned 8, and New York only 6; whereas Virginia re- turned 10, and South Carolina 5, From which may be gath- ered the relative rate of increase in p... ...ents used by both the gentlemen I have named prove very clearly that South Carolina and her sister States had no right to secede under the Constitutio... ...re- gions rich in corn, in coal, in metals, or in timber. These ready-made highways of the world center, as it were, at St. Louis, and make it the dep... ...o do all police and criminal regula- tions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and ...

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........................................................... 56 FEDERALIST No. 14 ........................................................................... ... rivers in the world, run- ning at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual trans-... ...ous jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied. The North is generally the region of strength, and many local circumstances ren... ...of strength, and many local circumstances render it probable that the most North- ern of the proposed confederacies would, at a period not very distan... ...dable than any of the others. No sooner would this become evident than the north- ern hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more sout... ...ministration of government, let the revolt of a part of the State of North Carolina, the late menacing disturbances in Pennsylvania, and the actual in... ...tes, it would furnish a like result. Let Virginia be contrasted with North Carolina, Pennsylvania with Connecticut, or Mary- land with New Jersey, and... ... per- *New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Geor- gia, South Carolina, and Maryland are a majority of the whole number of the States, bu... ...minute topographical acquaintance with all the mountains, rivers, streams, highways, and bypaths in each State; or is it a general acquaintance with i...

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...The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had unde...

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...ig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I m... ...ench, but receiving no answer, she tried us in English. She was the ship La Carolina, from Havre, for New York. We desired her to report the brig Pil... ...or New York. We desired her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the north west coast of America, five days out. She then filled away and left... ..., of course, is not kept up off Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, and in extreme north and south latitudes; but I have seen the decks washed down and scr... ...ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND HO!’’—POMPERO—CAPE HORN After speaking the Carolina, on the 21st August, nothing occurred to break the monotony of o... ...e duty, yet it must be done. An old Swede, (the best sailor on board,) who - 14 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana belonged on the forec... ...ness than slave trading. He was once tried for his life in Charleston, South Carolina, and though acquitted, yet he was so frightened that he never ... ...tly, until one of the men said he had a book which ‘‘told all about a great highway- man,’’ at the bottom of his chest, and producing it, I found, t... ...at upon the windlass, and sung sea songs, and those ballads of pirates and highwaymen, which sailors delight in. Home, too, and what we should do wh...

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... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...nd intimate per- sonal friends from their early manhood up to a few years 14 Personal Memoirs before. In politics they differed. Hamer was a life-lon... ...one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bou... ...the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population... ...sy of defence. It was important, therefore, to get possession of the great highway between the sea-coast and the capital up to the point where it leav... ...membered by middle-aged people of to-day as one of great excitement. South Carolina promptly seceded after the result of the Presidential election was... ...h of April Fort Sumter, a National fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, was fired upon by the Southerners and a few days after was captur... ...e. The commissary general of pris- oners reported having issued rations to 14,623 Fort Donelson prisoners at Cairo, as they passed that point. General... ...ymond. Johnston had been reinforced; during the night by Georgia and South Carolina regiments, so that his force amounted to eleven thousand men, and ...

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...ing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman?s lif...

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...may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in... ...ainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mountains, northeasterly one hundred and sixty miles, to the head of the Aroostook R... ...his master. Leaping over a fence, we began to follow an obscure trail up the northern bank of the Penobscot. There was now no road further, the river ... ...nk of the Penobscot. There was now no road further, the river being the only highway, and but half a dozen log huts confined to its banks, to be met wi... ...es. It had set in for a storm, and we made up our minds not to forsake such 14 The Maine Woods comfortable quarters with this prospect, but wait for ... ...In the winter, however, which is very equable and long, the ice is the great highway, and the loggers’ team penetrates to Chesuncook Lake, and still h... ...mmit of the latter had a singularly flat, table land appearance, like a short highway, where a demigod might be let down to take a turn or two in an af... ...st canoe birch which I saw in this journey near the end of the carry. It was 14 1/2 feet in circumference at two feet from the ground, but at five feet... ...arries, but not ripe till we got to Chamberlain dam and on East Branch. Rosa Carolina (swamp rose), common on the shores of lakes, &c. Rhus typhina* (...

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...d Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an O...

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...age viii p. 15 FAA Air Traffic Control Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector p. 32–33 Flight paths and timelines p. 49 Usam... ...The World Trade Center radio repeater system p. 288 The World Trade Center North T ower stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the... ... contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flig... ...cted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.Thi... ...rgain with T urabi, Bin Ladin used his construction company to build a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qae... ...mic extremist from Pakistan, shot and killed two CIA employees at the main highway entrance to CIA headquarters in Virginia. (Kansi drove away and was... ...to enroll at Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.After a semester at Chowan, KSM transferred to North Carolina Agri... ...ral FDNY Incident Command was transferred to his location on the West Side Highway. In all, 22 of the 32 senior chiefs and commissioners arrived at th... ...ment:The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996). 15. David M.Alpern with Anthony Marro and Stephan Le...