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Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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censed him that he brokehis sword, and denounced Hull for surrenderingwithout firing a gun, and for tamely submittingwithout raising a bayonet. When Cass resignedthe portfolio of state in the Buchanan cabinet,a senator very neatly linked the act with theheros practical expression-of disgust at the Hullsurrender in the war of 1812, by saying that itwas too bad that a man should have to break hissword twice in a lifetime, at the beginning andat the end of his eventful career. After thewar of 1812, Cass was made governor of Michi-gan territory. He next became secretary ofwar under President Jackson, and assisted OldHickory in the days of nullification. He wassent as minister to France, and opposed recog-nition by the French government of the Englishclaim to the right of search on the high sea.He lived to have this claim abandoned byEngland at his own instance while he had chargeof the state department under Buchanan. Thebook is vigorously written, and is a valuableaddition to the series.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. (Facsimile ofa rare print, engraved in Holland in 1671.) MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. XXVI SEPTEMBER, 1891 No. 3 THE SPARTANS OF PARIS LEAVES FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY(Conclusion from page 102. J MTHEOPHILE GAUTIER, or Theo, as he was affectionatelytermed by his intimates, our third founder, was a man of greatoriginal powers. There was a certain dreamy, far-away look in his darkeyes, and a sort of mystery enveloped his personality. When he sat downat our Spartan table one never knew exactly what would spring forth fromhis mobile lips. At the beginning of the repast he was inclined to besilent, but when the dinner had satisfactorily progressed, and the warminginfluences of a wholesome Burgundy had permeated his being, some strayremark would strike upon his ear, and form the text or point of departureof a discourse to which every one listened with eager ears. There was apicturesque finesse in his use of French which I have never heard equaledexcept in the case of

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