Author: John A. DixPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Speech...in Relation to Territories Acquired from Mexico; in the Senate of the United States, Feb. 28, 1849
Author: John A. DixSpeech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, in Relation to Territories Acquired From Mexico
Author: John Adams DixPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396126635
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, in Relation to Territories Acquired From Mexico: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 28, 1849 I could make no comment on' this correspond ence, if I were disposed, which would be half so eloquent as the facts. These Mexicans, whom we have been accustomed to consider half-civilized, vanquished in the field, driven from their capital, compelled' to.maka peace with us' almost on our own terms, and forced to cede a portion of their territory, -implore us not to carry slavery into it. Sir, I ask how should we stand before the world, liberal and enlightened as we are, proclaiming to mankind the principle of human liberty as one of the inalienable rights of our race, if we were to disregard these entreaties? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Speech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, in Relation to Territories Acquired from Mexico
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Speeches in the Senate, 1846-1849
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Heartless Immensity
Author: Anne BakerPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials, schoolbooks, as well as visual and literary works of art. These cultural artifacts suggest that the country’s anxiety was fueled primarily by two concerns: fears about the size of the nation as a threat to democracy, and about the incorporation of nonwhite, non-Protestant regions. These fears had a consistent and influential presence until after the Civil War, functioning as vital catalysts for the explosion of literary creativity known as the “American Renaissance,” including the work of Melville, Thoreau, and Fuller, among others. Building on extensive archival research as well as insights from cultural geographers and theorists of nationhood, Heartless Immensity demonstrates that national expansion had a far more complicated, multifaceted impact on antebellum American culture than has previously been recognized. Baker shows that Americans developed a variety of linguistic strategies for imagining the form of the United States and its position in relation to other geopolitical entities. Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected—and often attempted to assuage—fears that the nation was becoming either monstrously large or else misshapen in ways that threatened cherished beliefs and national self-images. Heartless Immensity argues that, in order to understand the nation’s shift from republic to empire and to understand American culture in a global context, it is first necessary to pay close attention to the processes by which the physical entity known as the United States came into being. This impressively thorough study will make a valuable contribution to the fields of American studies and literary studies. Anne Baker is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752519924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Memoirs of John Adams Dix
Author: Morgan DixPublisher:
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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On the Mode of Constituting Presidential Electors ...
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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