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...deral Court on the Contempt of Court charge and was sentenced to six months in Cook County Jail. His appeal on that charge was subsequently dismisse... ... They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, an... ...ion. Secession was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court only in 1869 (in Texas vs. White) - four years after the Civil War ended. New Eng... ...a white mob lynched, in September 1862, forty four Union supporters in Gainesville, Texas. Similar events took place in Shelton Laurel, North Carol... ...two Sumerian city-states located 25 kilometers apart in today's territory of Iraq. Clay cylinders and albast, copper and gold tablets found at the ... ...rliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty" is in a clay cuneiform document written about 2300 B.C. in Lagash. ... .../giantsquid/giantsquid.html Stamps On May 1, 1840, Great Britain was the first county to issue a postage stamp - the Penny Black, a one penny, ...

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... in Florida The “You Can Do It” Guide to Investing in Tax Defaulted Paper in Texas iv v Acknowledgments This book would never have been... ...................................................111 Included here is a State and County Directory with an indication of whether the States are Lien ... ..., you will want to give up. The material may seem overwhelming and the various County employees less than helpful. The process of sorting through t... ...ow . . . 1 Where do I begin – An Overview All across the United States, State, County and Local Governments raise money to provide benefits and se... ..., Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Colbert, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington, Crensha... ...kansas, Ashley, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, C... ...es Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Desoto, Dixie, Duval, Escambia, Flag... ...is, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis, St. Louis City, Stoddard, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Worth, Wright St... ...oc, Pottawatomie, Pushmataha, Roger Mills, Rogers, Seminole, Sequoyah, Stephens, Texas, Tillman, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington, Washita, Woods, Woodwar...

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...ing, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los ... ...an in his home I pressed my fingers over his eyes and spoke to him. I wet clay and placed it over his eyes. I allowed the cool clay to comfort him a... ...s I spoke; his wife watched with an expression of doubt; as I removed the clay she stepped aside. He made a curious noise, pushed me aside, stood. ... ... than forty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond ... ...d by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the Ameri...

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...: 647,500 km 2 ; land area: 647,500 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Texas Land boundaries: 5,510 km total Boundary disputes: none; Pushtunist... ...and area: 2,381,740 km 2 Comparative area: more than three times the size of Texas Land boundaries: 6,260 km total Coastline: 998 km Maritime claim: T... ... km 2 ; land area: 1,246,700 km 2 Comparative area: almost twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: 5,070 km total Coastline: 1,600 km Maritime claims... ...er age 18 Elections: elections held for People's Congress representatives at county level Political parties and leaders: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... ...h about 700 main telegraph centers capable of general message service at the county level and above; subscriber tele- printer exchange (telex) service... ...atural resources: copper, pyrites, asbes- tos, gypsum, lumber, salt, marble, clay earth pigment Agriculture: potatoes and other vegetables, grapes, ci... ...1981) Natural resources: bauxite, timber, gold (widely scattered), cinnabar, clay, low- grade iron ore Agriculture: limited vegetables for local consu... ...s (Bundes- strassen), 65,425 km state highways (Lan- desstrassen), 65,248 km county roads (Kreisstrassen); 296,737 km of unclassified communal roads (... ...te 1.6% (est. 1986), Natural resources: copper, phosphates, bromide, potash, clay, sand, sulfur, bitu- men, manganese Agriculture: citrus and other fr...

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...ing, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los ... ...old. The Kamen brothers were, as always, mysterious, stiff, like Egyptian clay long dried by the sun. It is too bad they can’t apply some of their a... ...aven and frog. He had moulded them for me. Two were made of light-colored clay, others of dark. They were as highly glazed as scarabs. I arranged th... ...rightly placed among the stars. P On my next visit to Alcaeus, I took my clay animals and placed them in his hands, describing each, one by one. He... ... than forty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond ... ...d by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the Ameri...

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...Besides, Gabriel and I are toking up so I shouldn't be driving fast. Orange County cops I mean pigs — — love to pull you over for the smallest offens... ...a veneer of Spanish and Italian flair: houses with straight-barrel mission, clay tile roofs made famous by — the neighboring Stanford University tal... ... make me come here to Culver Plaza, the Chinatown of Irvine and ergo Orange County. It's always crowded with Asian people of course, all looking for... ...o one does anything about it. And with Dick Cheney, the Vice President from Texas, selected by George W . Bush also from Texas, even though the 12 t... ...ce President cannot be elected from the same state. Well, Dick Cheney has a Texas driver's license, filed his taxes from Texas, owns property in Tex... ...ns property in Texas and was even the President of Halliburton, in Houston, Texas. So guess what he did? He changed his residency right after he was ... ...se there's a — — Starbucks inside. Asians in Irvine and the rest of Orange County love to congregate at Barnes and Noble and Borders, since they ca...

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...ing, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los ... ...old. The Kamen brothers were, as always, mysterious, stiff, like Egyptian clay long dried by the sun. It is too bad they can’t apply some of their a... ...aven and frog. He had moulded them for me. Two were made of light-colored clay, others of dark. They were as highly glazed as scarabs. I arranged th... ...rightly placed among the stars. P On my next visit to Alcaeus, I took my clay animals and placed them in his hands, describing each, one by one. He... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ... Executive Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam... ...d by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the Ameri...

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...f Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame for those of us who like Szechwan and Thai.‖... ... ethical for a patient than an ethicist from a Lutheran hospital or from a county medical center. When we cannot agree on truth, such as whether the ... ...y congruent. George Bush‘s approach to capital punishment, as governor of Texas, was that he trusted what the courts had found through their complet... ... case. He did this in the 152 death cases that he affirmed as governor of Texas. But when the courts found that Terry Schiavo was brain-dead he was ... ...ven if taxed minimally, is often like trying to catch a greased pig at the county fair. -- ―But doctor, in spite of the loopholes for the ri... ...eter maids issuing vehicle parking citations, toll and tax collectors, and county appraisers are such people. Some may make society run smoother, lik... ...3; Lev 24:17, 21; Deut 19:21 101. Matt 26:42, 53 and John 18:4-11) 102. Clay, aka Ali v. U.S. Government [1971] 403 U.S. 698) 495 103. Aftenpo...

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...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ...anv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Thm FInast Lino of Plmno» In ihm County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ... ... Henry Root, A. M., one of the most widely known members of the Washington county medical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a ban... ...Dublin" E. R. Ephraim Mandolin Club 2 Solo—"I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby" Clay Selwyn Reed Pevear '07 o "Sounds from the Orient'" H. J. Lincoln Banjo... ... Jesup Hall at the same hour. First Sercomb Cup Shoot Out of a possible 25 clay birds the number of kills made in the shoot for the Sorcouib cup Satur... ...lin E. R. Epbralm Mandolin Club a Solo "I'll Sing Tlieo Songs of of Arnby" Clay Selwyn R, Povear '07 3 Sounds from the Orient H. J. Lincoln Banjo Club... ...the Hoosac school. Lapham is oraploying his time temporarily on a ranch in Texas. Lawrence is in the Bermudas acting as a private tutor. On his return... ... by citing the instances of state re- valuation in Wisconsin, Michigan and Texas. He quoted various stntenients by authorities on the subject to show ... ...had ac complished in Galveston, Hous- ton. Dallas. Austin, and Port Worth, Texas, and in several other cities whose size is not much less than that of...

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...ed custodian clutched the document, and DO compromise was declan:d. (el An automobile crashed in Texas and the trunk SPrIDI open. State troopers found... ...truck, and baul it away. In the old days it bad evidently becm dumped by contractoR in abaadoaed clay pill somewhere in Fairfax County (and we never f... ... old days it bad evidently becm dumped by contractoR in abaadoaed clay pill somewhere in Fairfax County (and we never found them); but the then curren...

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...to one's family? Work? Neighbors? Neighborhood? Politically? Municipal? County? State? National? How many charities can one support? Which... ...ical to every other abstract line drawn to represent the number 1. The first clay tablets used for barter had insertions denoting each sold item. ... ... Once people started using the same tool to make these insertions into the wet clay to mark how many animals or pans or loads of goods were bought or... ...ls or pans or loads of goods were bought or sold: they began thinking that the clay tablets represented what was sold and bought. After the transact... ...se he had his daddy’s millions behind him. He had the entire oil monopoly of Texas, and the industrial military complex and the CIA behind him. The... ...The corporate-owned media never exposed the corruption of his Governorship in Texas because of this hidden corrupt power. Even though the scandals ... ...rous split-identities. Try to resolve just how your street-neighborhood-city- county-province-state-national-political identity fits with your family... ...ons. Then you are supposed to love your country, your city, your state, your county, etc…. Without ever being loved back by any of these abstract ... ...he son of one of the most powerful men in the world and one of the richest in Texas and beloved by millions: if you knew that no matter what stupid m...

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...s are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of t...

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...elations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basi... ...pse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America woul... ...f France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 13 basin of the M... ...m; a fanciful pilot house, a glass and “gingerbread,” perched on top of the “texas” deck behind them; the paddle boxes are gorgeous with a picture or ... ... a barkeeper on a boat; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. Pilot was the grandest position of all. The ... ...tsburgh, little trading scows from every where, and broad horns from “Posey County,” Indiana, freighted with “fruit and furniture”—the usual term for... ...riences; earthworks, trees crippled by the cannon balls, cave refuges in the clay precipices, etc. The caves did good service during the six weeks’ bo... ... driven into the perpendicu Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 201 lar clay bank, then branched Y shape, within the hill. Life in Vicksburg, dur... ...ods again, but only figureheads, and answerable for their acts like com mon clay. Such benefactions as these compensate the tem porary harm which Bo...

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... book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with...

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... extremest form of the back woods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dia lect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shading... ... window just before day was breaking. My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dogtired. CHAPTER III. Well, I got a good going over in... ...lothes; but the widow she didn’t scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I coul... ...“Watchman your grandmother,” I says; “there ain’t noth ing to watch but the texas and the pilothouse; and do you reckon anybody’s going to resk his l... ...and the pilothouse; and do you reckon anybody’s going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot house such a night as this, when it’s likely to break ... ... We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the Texas, feel ing our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out ... ... beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn’t read the poetry. Another was Henry Clay’s Speeches, and another was Dr. Gunn’s Family Medicine, which told ... ... had to account for things some way, so I says: “My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and P...

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...rintendent of Public Instruction, Members of Congress, of the Legislature, County Officers, and so on, we allowed these things to happen by want of su... ...olonies when slavery was first planted within them? It was planted, as Mr. Clay once declared, and as history proves true, by individual men, in spite... ...he people of the Colonies the authority to prohibit it for themselves. Mr. Clay says this was one of the great and just causes of complaint against Gr... ... described to us a death- bed scene. He had been called to the side of Mr. Clay, in his last moments, in order that the genius of “popular sovereignty... ... morning. The times and places designated are as follows: Ottawa, La Salle County August 21st, 1858. Freeport, Stephenson County August 27th, Jones... ...t 21st, 1858. Freeport, Stephenson County August 27th, Jonesboro, Union County September 15th, Charleston, Coles County September 18th, Galesburgh,... ...he date of the Missouri Compromise. It was so again with the annexation of Texas; so with the territory acquired by the Mexican war; and it is so now.... ...omise was formed, that which produced the agitation upon the annexation of Texas, and at other times, work out the same results always? Do you think t... ...ll you oppose the admission of any Slave States which may be formed out of Texas or the Territories? “4th. Will you vote for and advocate the repeal o...

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...the Missouri Compromise; this pro- duced the troubles at the annexation of Texas, in the acquisi- tion of the territory acquired in the Mexican War. A... ...call our public meetings as Republican meetings; and he instances Tazewell County as one of the places where the friends of Lincoln have called a publ... ...ng and have not dared to name it a Republican meeting. He instances Monroe County as another, where Judge Trumbull and Jehu Baker addressed the person... ...racy.” I have the honor to inform Judge Douglas that he spoke in that very county of Tazewell last Saturday, and I was there on Tuesday last; and when... ...avery during the Territorial existence of those Ter- ritories, while Henry Clay constantly made the declaration (Judge Douglas recognizing him as a le... ... formed a free constitution. It included the settlement of the boundary of Texas, which had been undefined before, which was in itself a slavery quest... ...self a slavery question; for if you pushed the line farther west, you made Texas larger, and made more slave territory; while, if you drew the line to... ... way to do it? I have said once before, and I will repeat it now, that Mr. Clay, when he was once answering an objection to the Colo- nization Society... ...ntirely borne out by the sentiments advanced by our old Whig leader, Henry Clay, and I have the book here to show it from but because I have already o...

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...and some of his pieces were even deemed good enough for publication in the county weekly. Thus he won a neighborhood reputation as a clever young man,... ...ature again. Although he called himself a Whig, an ardent admirer of Henry Clay, his clever stump speeches 13 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol O... ...m a friend to buy a new suit of clothes—”store clothes” fit for a Sangamon County statesman; and thus adorned he set out for the state capital, Vandal... ...ment upon grave affairs of state with a story about “a man out in Sangamon County,”—a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lac... ..., and their hundreds of others, scampering away with the pub- lic money to Texas, to Europe, and to every spot of the earth where a villain may hope t... ..._______ 192 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One INVITATION TO HENRY CLAY. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Aug 29, 1842. HON. HENRY CLAY, Lexington, Ky. DEAR... ... Irwin, P . A. Saunders, J. M. Allen, F . N. Francis. Executive Committee “Clay Club.” (Clay’s answer, September 6, 1842, declines with thanks.) 193 ...

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...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ..., declare, and make known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South ... ... If you send Linder to me as directed a day or two ago, also send Edwin C. Claybrook, of Ninth Virginia rebel cavalry. A. LINCOLN. 54 The Writings of... ... of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were, for reasons therein set forth, placed under blockade; and where... ...e port of Brownsville, in the district of Brazos Santiago, in the State of Texas, has since been blockaded, but as the blockade of said port may now b... ...uary 20, 1864. HON. W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.: In county and State elections, must citizens of Tennessee take the oath prescr... ...56 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven SAFE CONDUCT FOR CLEMENT C. CLAY AND OTHERS, JUL Y 16, 1864. The President of the United States directs... ...irects that the four per- sons whose names follow, to wit, HON. Clement C. Clay, HON. Jacob Thompson, Professor James P. Holcombe, George N. Sanders, ...

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...t calculation of beating you and your friends for the lower house, in that county. They offer to bet upon it. Billings and Job, respec- tively, have b... ... the Territories when slavery is not present. In his Mendenhall speech Mr. Clay says: “Now as an ab- stract principle there is no doubt of the truth o... ...t in view as a great fundamental principle.” Again, in the same speech Mr. Clay says: “If a state of na- ture existed and we were about to lay the fou... ...e foundations of society; and in laying those foundations, I say, with Mr. Clay, it is desirable that the declaration of the equality of all men shall... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished... ...f the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from ... ... of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too power- ful to be suppressed by the ordinary cour... ...f South Carolina, Geor- gia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue ... ...f South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, and Texas was ordered to be established: And whereas, since that date, public p...

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... aged man turned out to be a pro digious personage — no less a one than the county judge — altogether the most august creation these children had eve... ...o he had travelled, and seen the world — these very eyes had looked upon the county court house — which was said to have a tin roof. The awe which the... ...urch; for the other churches of the village; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for... ...after I’ve spied around a little and think things look well for it. Then for Texas! We’ll leg it together!” This was satisfactory. Both men presently ... ...ht flamed in his eyes. “I’ll need your help in it. When it’s finished — then Texas. Go home to your Nance and your kids, and stand by till you hear fr... ...ing, hilarious, smeared from head to foot with tallow drippings, daubed with clay, and entirely delighted with the success of the day. Then they were ... ...lshman came home toward daylight, spattered with candle grease, smeared with clay, and almost worn out. He found Huck still in the bed that had been p... ...sat down, and Tom fastened his candle to the wall in front of them with some clay. Thought was soon busy; nothing was said for some time. Then Becky b... ...ing on me and doing me mean tricks. If it hadn’t been for me he’d be down in Texas now, all right.” Then Huck told his entire adventure in confidence ...

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...m that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennes- see, North Carolina, and the State of... ...Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upsbur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and... ...inia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas in an orderly manner seize and use any property, real o... ..., Missouri: N. W . Watkins, of Jackson, Mo., (who is half brother to Henry Clay), writes me that a colonel of ours has driven him from his home at Jac... ...ay in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Ber- nard, Plaquemines, Jeffer... ... Gamble tele- graphed me, asking that the assessments outside of St. Louis County might be suspended, as they already have been within it, and this mo... ...ev. John M. Robinson, of Colum- bia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Mis- souri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Mis- souri... ...ASHINGTON, February 13, 1863. HON. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg, Pa.: General Clay is here and I suppose the matter we spoke of will have to be definitel... ... in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. It is, however, within the range of prac- tical convenience to conf...

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... shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivi... ... up to his hawk like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. I had come ... ...or you, Jones, it will be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands.” “John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He’s a young man, Mr. M... ...l something to my medical instincts? I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the... ...Lon don, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union.” “Texas, I think.” 92 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes “I was not and a... ... “Let me introduce you,” he shouted, “to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee, in the county of Kent.” Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man’s f... ...ut this whistle and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?” “That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is my strong impression that...

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...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...uman body. The town- 77 Tocqueville ship is the lowest in order, then the county, and lastly the State; and I propose to devote the following chapter... ...d manufacture centres in the hands of the Anglo-Americans. But the case of Texas is still more striking: the State of T exas is a part of Mexico, and ... ...reseen that if Mexico takes no steps to check this change, the province of Texas will very shortly cease to belong to that government. If the differen... ...**This law was passed on March 2, 1833. ***This bill was brought in by Mr. Clay, and it passed in four days through both Houses of Congress by an imme... ... exas. The inhabitants of the United States are perpetually migrat- ing to Texas, where they purchase land; and although they conform to the laws of t... ...roof were formed of rough trunks of trees, between which a little moss and clay had been inserted to keep out the cold and rain. “ As night was coming... ... is necessary. A single window with a muslin blind; on a hearth of trodden clay an immense fire, which lights the whole structure; above the hearth a ...

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... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ... tilt up as the wheels roll over them; and in the river. The river has a clayey bottom and is full of holes, so that half a horse is constantly disa... ...roofless; the log cabins (built in Virginia with external chimneys made of clay or wood) are squalid in the last degree. There is no look of decent co... ... strangers from an old country: cabins with simple ovens, outside, made of clay; and lodgings for the pigs nearly as good as many of the human quarter... ...alking in front of the house), he would clean up his musket, and be off to Texas to morrow morning. He was one of the very many descendants of Cain pr... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ...e learn that the Hon. Charles C. P. Arndt, Member of the Council for Brown county, was shot dead on the floor of the concil chamber, by James R. Vin...

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...ern stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisiana purchased, and Missouri and Kansas rescued from ... ...rs, and al- most always to the detriment of the South. In 1845 Florida and Texas were admitted into the Union as slave States. I think that no State h... ..., I imagine, impossible—unless such object were gained by the admission of Texas. We all remember that fight about Kansas, and what sort of a fight it... ...the bark still on, and 129 Trollope having the interstices filled in with clay. This was roofed with canvas, and altogether made a very eligible mili... ... unfortunately the ground was in its nature soft and deep, composed of red clay; and as the frost went and the wet weather came, mud became omnipotent... ..., Crittenden, Harris, Fessenden, are all law- 247 Trollope yers. Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and Cass were lawyers. Hamilton and Jay were lawyers. Any ma... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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...inct. O.M. She has cows, and milks them. Y.M. Instinct, of course. O.M. In Texas she lays out a farm twelve feet square, plants it, weeds it, cultivat... ...t kings is merely due to another accident; we are all made out of the same clay, and it is a sufficient poor quality. Below the kings, these remarks a... ...Is Man and Other Essays 120 changed. A slave came flying from Palmyra, the county seat, a few miles back, and was about to escape in a canoe to Illin... ...no choice. It brought in a true bill, and pres ently the case went to the county court. The trial was a fine sensation. The prisoner was the principa... ...e were thirty What Is Man and Other Essays 128 thousand kings reigning in County Cork alone in his time, fifteen hundred years ago. It got so that th... ..., angles, shafts, drifts, inclines, levels, tunnels, air shafts, “horses,” clay cas ings, granite casings; quartz mills and their batteries; arastras...

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...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ...zed- iron skeleton tower of a wind-mill. The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels ... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ...kempt harshness. As she dragged homeward Carol looked with distaste at her clay-loaded rubbers, the smeared hem of her skirt. She passed Lyman Cass’s ... ... and asked Bresnahan what he thought about the Packard car, investments in Texas oil-wells, the com- parative merits of young men born in Minnesota an... ...nest kind of critter that God ever made—meaner than the horned toad or the Texas lallapaluza! (Laughter.) And do you know what the animile was? He was... ... parties, and at the dinners of State Societies, to which the emigres from Texas or Michigan surged that they might confirm themselves in the faith th...

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...ar, number Two came after lunch. He is such a nice fellow,and American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems almost im possib... ...e my trying to stop him. He can’t hurt those big boxes, they are invoiced as clay, and to pull them about is as harmless a thing as he can do. So here... ...GRAM, VAN HELSING, ANTWERP, TO SEWARD, CARFAX (Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given, delivered late by twenty two hours.) 17 September.—Do not f... ... go watch alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved, so that the poor clay might not be lonely till laid to eternal rest. I must have slept l... ...that she may have all. And yet I can laugh at her very grave, laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say ‘Thud, thu... ...introduction, “Lord Godalming, Professor Van Helsing, Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas, Mr. Jonathan Harker, Mr. Renfield.” He shook hands with each of ...

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... the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant a... ...n oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and ... ...hen shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helms- man! steady. This is the sort of weather when brave he... ...and, but a Fast- Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whol... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it... ...t of business thou art in here, carpenter;—or would’st thou rather work in clay? Sir?—Clay? clay, sir? That’s mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir. The...

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... the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant a... ...n oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and ... ...hen shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort of weather when brave hear... ...land, but a Fast Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whol... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the ... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it... ...of business thou art in here, carpenter; — or would’st thou rather work in clay? Sir? — Clay? clay, sir? That’s mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir. T...

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...s (Democrats) here are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Texas, and the Virginia elec- tors. They are growing sick of the Tariff que... ... consequently are much confounded at V .B.’s cutting them off from the new Texas question. Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of those... ... V .B., but they say he will not be the candi- date, and that they are for Texas anyhow. As ever yours, A. LINCOLN. 1845 SELECTION OF CONGRESSIONAL CA... .... If the old system be thought to be vague, as to all the delegates of the county voting the same way, or as to instructions to them as to whom they a... ...join in proposing 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 c... ...sus, we shall see by the old plan, and by your pro- posed new plan, Morgan County, with a population 16,541, has but ...... 8 votes While Sangamon wit... ...em. If the Whig abolitionists of New York had voted with us last fall, Mr. Clay would now be President, Whig principles in the as- cendant, and Texas ... .... An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit. If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of sla- very, could the act o... ... INDIANA- (A FRAGMENT). [In December , 1847, when Lincoln was stumping for Clay, he crossed into Indiana and revisited his old home. He writes: “That ...

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...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ...ed Jackson for the Presidency; but he was a Whig, a great admirer of Henry Clay, and never voted for any other democrat for high office after Jackson.... ...my sentiment so palpably that there was no mistaking it. The annexation of Texas was at this time the subject of violent discussion in Congress, in th... ... set up an independent gov- ernment of their own, and war existed, between Texas and Mexico, in name from that time until 1836, when active hostilitie... ...an they could possibly lay any claim to, as part of the new ac- quisition. Texas, as an independent State, never had exer- cised jurisdiction over the... ...nd confined in that position; the whole was then plas- tered over with wet clay until every opening was filled. Just inside the open end of the oven t... ...ut politics, although I was a Whig by education and a great admirer of Mr. Clay. But the Whig party had ceased to exist before I had an opportunity of...

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...f the House Chamber on the second floor of the brick building. Speaker Henry Clay declined the use of the hall and suggested that the proceedings be h... ... governed in a body, and whose dominions seldom exceeded the dimensions of a county in one of our States, a tumultuous and disorderly movement per mi... ...ne a clear winner of the 1824 elec tion. The outcome was assured when Henry Clay, one of the front runners, threw his support to Mr. Adams so that An... ...to distribute the burdens as equally as possible among them. The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union, to form a part of... ...with us the blessings of liberty secured and guaranteed by our Constitution. Texas was once a part of our country—was unwisely ceded away to a foreign... ...e question of annexation as belonging ex clusively to the United States and Texas. They are inde pendent powers competent to contract, and foreign n... ... not doubt that if those men in the South who now accept the tariff views of Clay and the constitutional expositions of Webster would courageously avo... ...earth. Harry S. Truman INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 A former county judge, Senator and Vice President, Harry S. Truman had taken the o...

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..., or whole logs, or bark in sufficient quantities, or even well tem pered clay or flat stones. I speak understandingly on Walden 37 this subject, fo... ...ork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to communic... ...ings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county. It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their p... ... It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rustica” is my “Cultivator,” says an... ...him, and wished to know what had become of him. I had read of the potter’s clay and wheel in Scrip ture, but it had never occurred to me that the pot... ...na gave me more delight than to ob serve the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad through... ...e is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massach...

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... York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communic... ...ldings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county. It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their... ...d. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rusticˆ a” is my “Cultivator,” says, ... ...f him, and wished to know what had become of him. I had read of the potter’s clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pot... ...mena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thaw ing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad throug... ...y degree of fineness and of various rich colors, commonly mixed with a little clay. When the frost comes out in the spring, and even in a thawing day i... ...goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion 205 Mr. —— of G...

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...er I. A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of m... ... heart. I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose mor... ...some power of magic I might remove the great bulk of these people into the county districts and plant them upon the soil, upon the solid and never dec... ... We tried several locations before we opened up a pit that furnished brick clay. I had always supposed that brickmaking was very simple, but I soon fo... ...way to do this. Not very long ago I was making a journey between Dal- las (Texas) and Houston. In some way it became known in advance that I was on th...

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...ad not rendered wearisome, and thus had become a very graceful modeller in clay—her favourite pursuit—when her children’s lessons and other occupation... ...uick in answers: Thou heatest my blood. —Love’s Labours Lost. KEM’STER, as county tradition pronounced what was spelt Kenminster, a name meaning St. K... ...n in the middle of a mighty and solemn dinner party! All the grandees, the county people (this in a deep and awful voice), sitting up in their chignon... ...ame; it was only the family resort for making messes in. She never touched clay now, and there was nothing worth seeing; but it was in vain; Babie had... ...ly rising, or on wet afternoons, and birthday holidays, was devoted to her clay. Before the end of the autumn she had sent up to Mr. Acton some lovely... ... It led up between high hedges to the brow of one of the many hills of the county , whence they could look down into the hollow, a perfect cup, scoope... ...derings we got out of the more established regions into the south-west. In Texas we found a new township, called Burkeville, with- out a resident medi...

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...ons, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. It arouses 99 Emerson itself at last from these endearments, as toys... ...with each moment he al- ters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay. 183 Emerson Away with your nonsense of oil and easels, of marble and... ...he northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geograp... ... of truths. I should feel it pitiful to demand a re- sult on this town and county, an overt effect on the in- stant month and year. The effect is deep... ...in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the p...