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Identifier: americanencyclop00blak (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ated president. The Gadsden Treaty, by which theMesilla Valley was acquired from Mexico, was made Dec. 30, in the sameyear. By act of June 29, 1854, $10,000,000 were appropriated to carryout the treaty; $7,000,000 to be paid upon exchange of ratifications, and$3,000,000 as soon as the boundary line should be surveyed and established. Thus have been briefly sketched the leading events, political and civil,of the history of the United States, from the first feeble and scattered colo-nial establishments to the formation of a great and prosperous nation. Thegreat problem of the possibility of a permanent and well-ordered republic,on so extensive a scale, doubtless yet remains to be solved. It depends onthe intelligence and virtue of the people, whether it shall be solved asthe friends of free institutions desire. Theoretically the most perfect of allforms of human government, it requires, beyond any other, the presenceof these conditions to preserve it from becoming practically the worst.
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DEPARTMENT OF BIOGRAPHY. HERNANDO CORTEZ. The portion of the new world earliest colonized by the Spaniards wasthe Island of St. Domingo, Hayti, or Hispaniola, discovered by Columbusin his first voyage in the year 1492. For nearly twenty years this islandwas the only colony of importance held by the Spaniards in the new world;here alone did they occupy lands, build towns, and found a regular com-monwealth. Cuba, although the second of the islands discovered by Co-lumbus, remained long uncolonized; indeed it was not till the year 1509that it was circumnavigated, and ascertained to be an island. At length,in 1511, Don Diego Columbus, the great admirals son, governor of His-paniola, despatched a force of three hundred men, under Don Diego Velas-quez, to take possession of the island. Velasquez soon subdued the island,the natives of which offered but little resistance, and he was shortly after-wards appointed governor, subordinate to the governor of Hispaniola.Ambitious of sharing in the g

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