The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, 第 3 卷James Herring, James Barton Longacre D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1854 |
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第 7 頁 - I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. I am determined not to go myself until I see Mr. Madison safe, so that he can accompany me, as I hear of much hostility towards him.
第 8 頁 - Wednesday morning (twelve o'clock). — Since sunrise I have been turning my spyglass in every direction and watching with unwearied anxiety, hoping to discover the approach of my dear husband and his friends ; but, alas ! I can descry only groups of military wandering in all directions, as if there was a lack of arms, or of spirit, to fight for their own firesides.
第 2 頁 - Resolved, That in the late campaign against the Indians on the Wabash, Governor Wm. H Harrison has, in the opinion of this Legislature, behaved like a hero, a patriot and a general ; and that for his cool, deliberate, skilful and gallant conduct in the late battle of Tippecanoe, he well deserves the warmest thanks of the nation.
第 8 頁 - Maryland, or fall into the hands of British soldiery, events must determine. Our kind friend. Mr. Carroll, has come to hasten my departure, and is in a very bad humor with me because I insist on waiting until the large picture of General Washington is secured; and it requires to be unscrewed from the wall. This process was found too tedious for these perilous moments; I have ordered the frame to be broken and the canvas taken out; it is done, and the precious portrait placed in the hands of two gentlemen...
第 6 頁 - The law, sir, has been my study from my infancy, and my only profession. I have gone' through the circle of office, in the legislative, executive, and judicial, departments of government; and from all my study, observation, and experience, I must declare, that from a full examination and due consideration of this system, it appears to me the best the world has yet seen.
第 10 頁 - She is a structure resting on two boats and keels, separated from end to end by a channel fifteen feet wide, and sixty-six feet long ; one boat contains the caldrons of copper to prepare her steam. The cylinder of iron, its piston, levers, and wheels occupy part of the other. The water-wheel revolves in the space between them.
第 12 頁 - Is it not transcendently by his exertions that we all address each other here by the endearing appellation of countrymen and fellow-citizens ? Of that band of benefactors of the human race, the founders of the Constitution of the United States, James Madison is the last who has gone to his reward. Their glorious work has survived them all. They have transmitted the precious bond of union to us, now entirely a succeeding generation to them. May it never cease to be a voice of admonition to us, of...
第 8 頁 - And now, dear sister, I must leave this house, or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be to-morrow, I cannot tell!