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During his curriculum he attended the lectures of Professor Jeremiah Day on natural philosophy and Professor Benjamin Sieliman on chemistry, and it was then he imbibed his earliest knowledge of electricity. In 1809-10 Dr. Morse afterwards declared this experiment to have been the seed which rooted in his mind and grew into the 'invention of the telegraph.
Madison's policy in 1809-10 was rather to conciliate than provoke "those in a certain quarter." He could not command entire unanimity even in his own party. Congress passed the winter in vain efforts to find some common ground, not merely for Democrats and Federalists, but for the Democrats alone. Various measures were proposed to meet the critical condition of the country.
After all these drawbacks, however, his Travels are very valuable, and, with the exception of the tedious annals of Abyssinia, may be perused with interest and profit. Salt's Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the interior of that country. 1809-10: with an account of the Portuguese Settlements on the east coast of Africa. 4to. 1814.
Works of Jefferson, vol. v. pp. 442-445. "When Lord Wellesley's answer speaks of the offence imputed to Jackson, it does not say he gave no such cause of offence, but simply relied on his repeated asseverations that he did not mean to offend." Pinkney to Madison, Aug. 13, 1810. Wheaton's Life of Pinkney, p. 446. Annals of Congress, 1809-10. Ibid., January 8, 1810, pp. 1164, 1234. Ibid., p. 1234.
In the third quarter of the century these methods were brought to practicality, but all may be referred back to the brilliant demonstrations of Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution, circa 1809-10, when, with the current from a battery of two thousand cells, he produced an intense voltaic arc between the points of consuming sticks of charcoal.
Annals of Congress, 1809-10, pp. 754, 755. Ibid., pp. 606, 607. Annals of Congress, 1810, p. 2582. For Armstrong's letter and the text of the Decree, see American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 384. Armstrong to Champagny, March 10, 1810. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 382. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 362. Ibid., p. 385. Ibid.
In the winter of 1809-10 he was a second time sent to the United States Senate, for two years, to fill the unexpired term of Buckner Thurston, where he made speeches in favor of encouraging American manufacturing industries, not to the extent of exportation, which he thought should be confined to surplus farm-produce, but enough to supply the people with clothing and to make them independent of foreign countries for many things unnecessarily imported.
This work displays great research, aided and directed by much preparatory knowledge, and a sound judgment and good taste. Hobhouse's Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey, to Constantinople, in 1809-10. 4to. 1813. Classical, antiquarian, and statistical, with sketches of manners, national character, &c.
It was during the two following years of peace that dissensions first broke out amongst the Serbian leaders; fighting the Turks was the sole condition of existence which prevented them fighting each other. In 1809-10 Russia and the Serbs again fought the Turks, at first without success, but later with better fortune.
When I saw the College Green house in 1809-10, it was apparently empty, and, as I was told, had always been empty since the murder: forty years had not cicatrized the bloody remembrance; and, to this day, perhaps, it remains amongst the gloomy traditions of Bristol.
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