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...town was first established on an island on the South coast of what now is now Virginia. Jamestown and Province Town were planned as a dual venture; ... ... overpopulated civilization, sent there by investors of the London company of Virginia to get rich quick. . After dying in droves from one year... ... Finally the uprising of the colonists in 1662 brought about the demise of the Virginia holding company The Crown took over the fort and it became ... ...is own subjects, how England treated them, how the King treated them, how the Virginia Company of London treated them, how they were treated by thei... ...bounty that they were feeding surplus food to the hogs. At the time of the Virginia Company .of London’s venture into the New World, the culture o... ...ad to whitewash everything about themselves. Until they all wore white false Whigs. Until they pomaded and sprinkled themselves with white flour, ... ...eir evil treasure… but it is perfectly fine! And legal for rich upper class Whigs and doctors to go seek out where these poor, lower class illegal ...

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...ccustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt them- selves drawn together by a common overpowering senti- ment... ...ampaigns he had occasion- ally spoken on the ostensible issues between the Whigs and the Democrats, the tariff, internal improvements, banks, and so o... ...t shades of opinion within the party, and of the different elements—former Whigs and former Democrats—from which the party had recruited itself. This ... ...ock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period their importation had continued. ... ...l justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally to the standard of freedom which he... ...s in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by inaction and disasters in Virginia, only partially redeemed by the bloody and indecisive battle of An... ...h a national bank for the same purposes. Mr. Douglas has said that we (the Whigs) have not dared to meet them (the Lo- cos) in argument on this questi... ...hat clause was stricken from the bill, but it was done by the votes of the Whigs, aided by a portion only of the Van 137 The Writings of Abraham Linc...

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...and endowed by divine law with equality. And down South, with the old-line Whigs, with the Kentuckians, the Virginians and the Tennesseeans, he tells ... ...uality. And down South, with the old-line Whigs, with the Kentuckians, the Virginians and the Tennesseeans, he tells you that there is a physical dif-... ...leston speech was what I would say down South among the Ken- tuckians, the Virginians, etc., but would not say in the regions in which was supposed to... ... 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 slavery,—thu... ...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 existing instit... ...ld say he was not an old-line Whig. I am somewhat acquainted with old-line Whigs from the origin to the end of that party; I became pretty well acquai... ...tual emancipation of all the slaves within their respective limits? W ould Virginia and other South- ern States have ever united in a declaration whic...

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...sed to indulge him this campaign. Last year his Grace had been all for the Whigs and Hanoverians; but finding, on going to England, his country cold t... ... through his wound, was kept to diet drink and gruel. These gentlemen were Whigs, and great admirers of my Lord Duke of Marlborough; and Esmond was en... ... me, do you know what my scheme is? I think of asking Frank to give me the Virginian estate King Charles gave our grandfa- ther. (She gave a superb cu... ...passing his time in England in his great estate in Staffordshire. When the Whigs went out of office in 1710, the Queen be- gan to show his Grace the v... ...ld use any opinion for the purpose of forwarding their own ambi- tion. The Whigs, on the other hand, who professed attach- ment to religion and libert... ...er; nor the shot which brings her down. During that well-founded panic the Whigs had, lest the Queen should forsake their Hanoverian Prince, bound by ... ...s of V an Dyck and Rubens. My grand- son hath the piece, such as it is, in Virginia now. At the commencement of the month of June, Miss Beatrix Esmond...

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...aham Lincoln: V ol Three ably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia. He has done all in his power to reduce the whole question of sla-... ...linois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana, the oyster laws of Virginia, or the liquor laws of Maine. I have said these things over and ov... ...As another piece of evidence tending to this same point: Quite recently in Virginia, a man—the owner of slaves—made a will providing that after his de... ... slaves. A suit was instituted, which finally came to the Supreme Court of Virginia, and was therein decided against the slaves upon the ground that a... ...dge Douglas has a very affec- tionate leaning toward the Americans and Old Whigs. Last evening, in a sort of weeping tone, he described to us a death-... ...ntly promised himself that tears shall be drawn down the cheeks of all Old Whigs, as large as half-grown apples. Mr. Webster, too, was mentioned; but ... ...e Legislature that winter, he complained of me that I had told all the old Whigs of his district that the old Whig party was good enough for them, and... ... General Scott up for the presidency, Judge Douglas was around berating us Whigs as Abolitionists, precisely as he does to-day,—not a bit of differenc...

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...y any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsyl... ..., perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country- house called Arlington Heig... ...the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they... ...burb—and the only suburb—of Washington. The portion of the district on the Virginian side included Arlington heights, and went so far down the river a... ...cluded Arlington heights, and went so far down the river as to take in the Virginian City of Alexandria. This was the extreme western point of the dis... ...Vir- ginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. As Radicals in England be- come simple Whigs when they are admitted into public offices, so did Mr. Lincoln with h...

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...ty-four. In the Old Dominion—in the Demo- cratic and aristocratic State of Virginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in Ne... ...vision and allowing them to have slaves. A report made by Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, himself a slaveholder, was directly against it, and the action wa... ...essed that idea. That same idea was expressed by the Richmond Enquirer, in Virginia, in 1856,—quite two years before it was expressed by the first of ... .... I don’t think that you can discover that Douglas ever talked of going to Virginia to “squelch” out that idea there. No. More than that. That same Ro... ...little wonder- ful; but that wonder is heightened when we see that Wise of Virginia, a man exactly opposed to them, a man who believes in the divine r... ...can join in and establish it on a more firm and durable basis. We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall n...

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...d swindling—as could be shown were we not inclined to deal mildly with the Whigs; and this Enlistment Act, which, in order to maintain the British glo... ...ueezed my hand and whispered to me that I was to be Major of a regiment in Virginia—the very thing: for you see, my dear, I didn’t care about joining ... ...ond the sea; and, as the fashion then was, sold the use of their bodies to Virginian planters during that space of time. It is thus, alas! that the st... ...s an accomplice in another case of robbery; and when, on their return from Virginia, our two heroes, whose hopes of livelihood depended upon it, had b... ...to a very late period; and Brock’s passions had been whipped out of him in Virginia; where much ill-health, ill-treatment, hard labour, and hard food,... ... sooner or latter, is sure to overtake the criminal. “On their return from Virginia, a quarrel about booty arose between these two, and Macshane kille...

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...ork, where periwinkles would grow, iris, clematis, ivy, hon- eysuckle, and Virginia creeper. The Baroness desired that the inside should be lined with... ... the present order of things, after the pattern of the T ories against the Whigs in England. This doctrine was not acceptable to the Legitimists, who,...

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...es; a steed That carries double when there’s need: October store, and best Virginia, Tithe-pig, and mortuary guinea: Gazettes sent gratis down, and fr... ... mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While T ories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet To run a-muck, and t... ... all from Horace; Horace long before ye Said, ‘Tories call’d him Whig, and Whigs a Tory;’ And taught his Romans, in much better metre, ‘To laugh at fo...

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...ere are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Texas, and the Virginia elec- tors. They are growing sick of the Tariff question; and 5 T... ...Baker were successively nominated and elected to Congress; and because the Whigs of the district are well acquainted with the system, and, so far as I... ...ing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judg- ment and convenience may... ... to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a Union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in prin- ciple on all... ... to do no wrong, etc., I mean no special application of what I said to the Whigs of Morgan, or of Morgan & Scott. I only had in my mind the fact that ... ...w in a great measure superseded by what had fallen from the gentleman from Virginia who had just taken his seat. He begged to assure his friends on th... ...man in poli- tics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power... ...in this, he had begun with prepossessions in favor of the gentle- man from Virginia. As to the report, he had but one remark to make: he had carefully... ...in any quarter. He supposed that the statements made by the gentleman from Virginia to show this were all entirely correct in point of fact. He did su...

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...try from what one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, an... ...ley was the cadet who had preceded me at West Point. He was killed in West Virginia, in his first engagement. As far as I know, ev- ery boy who has en... ... superior force numerically, made his nomination for the Presidency by the Whigs a foregone conclusion. He was nominated and elected in 1848. I believ... ...ction for city of- ficers. Mr. Zachariah Chandler was the candidate of the Whigs for the office of Mayor, and was elected, although the city was then ... ...re anti-slavery men belonged to the Democratic party, and in others to the Whigs. But with the inauguration of the Mexican war, in fact with the annex... ...nfined almost exclusively to the territory where it existed. The States of Virginia and Kentucky came near abolishing slavery by their own acts, one S... ...r rein- forcing of Bragg in Middle Tennessee. Already the Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the army under General Pope and was invading Maryland... ...or the fall of Vicksburg gave us Port Hudson at once. The army of northern Virginia was driven out of Pennsylvania and forced back to about the same g...

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...ackeray. London, October 18, 1852. 6 Henry Esmond PREFACE. THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA. THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our anc... ...uce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esmond, whose ... ...tory, written by himself, is contained in the accompanying volume, came to Virginia in the year 1718, built his house of Castlewood, and here permanen... ...at of their affectionate old mother, Rachel Esmond Warrington. Castlewood, Virginia, November 3, 1778. 11 Thackeray THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND BOOK ... ...e times his Majesty could not repay, a grant of land in the plantations of Virginia was given to the Lord Viscount.; part of which land is in possessi... ...sed to indulge him this campaign. Last year his Grace had been all for the Whigs and Hanoverians; but finding, on going to England, his country cold t... ..., was kept 322 Henry Esmond to diet drink and gruel. These gentlemen were Whigs, and great admirers of my Lord Duke of Marlborough; and Esmond was en... ...passing his time in England in his great estate in Staffordshire. When the Whigs went out of office in 1710, the Queen be- gan to show his Grace the v... ...ld use any opinion for the purpose of forwarding their own ambi- tion. The Whigs, on the other hand, who professed attach- ment to religion and libert...

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... to both Houses of Parliament, where Ministerialists and Opposi- tionists, Whigs and Tories, Radicals, Peers, and Destructives, strangers from the gal... ...oat and bright buttons, like the pictures of Paul—not the saint, but he of Virginia notoriety. The remainder of the commit- tee, dressed in white hats... ...ens ming, the captain began the following duet from the opera of ‘Paul and Virginia,’ in that grunting tone in which a man gets down, Heaven knows whe...

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... Senator to Merchant’s-Clerk, Book-dealer, Vice-King; in many places, from Virginia to Sardinia, shalt, ever as a brave man, find employ- ment. (Biogr... ...America, France, have been waved here in concert; by London Deputation, of Whigs or Wighs and their Club, on this hand, and by young French Citizeness... ...gain be. Charles Second sent out his Highland Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hunt their Maroon...