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DE WITT CLINTON Painted by Morse. Owned by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. HENRY CLAY Painted by Morse. Owned by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Birth of S.F.B. Morse. His parents. Letters of Dr. Belknap and Rev. Mr. Wells. Phillips, Andover. First letter. Letter from his father. Religious letter from Morse to his brothers. Letters from the mother to her sons. Morse enters Yale.
I can very well conceive that a rule so long disregarded could not, or would not, be restored without the subject being presented, and I now do so respectfully for your consideration. U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General. General Belknap never answered that letter.
Belknap put his arm about me and helped me to sit up. I saw Orme holding out the stained arrow head, long and thin, in his fingers. "Would you like it?" he said. "Yes," said I, grinning. And I confess I have it now somewhere about my house. I doubt if few souvenirs exist to remind one of a scene exactly similar. The girl now kept cloths wrung from the hot water on my neck.
I was only going to ask you to do as much as Belknap, or less." "Very well, then." "I want you to promise to marry Grace Sheraton." I laughed in his face. "I thought you knew me better than that, Orme. I'll attend to my own matters for myself. I shall not even ask you why you want so puerile a promise. I am much of a mind to shoot you.
Its archives and few remaining functions were with blunt discourtesy transferred from Howard's control, in his absence, to the supervision of Secretary of War Belknap in 1872, on the Secretary's recommendation. Finally, in consequence of grave intimations of wrong-doing made by the Secretary and his subordinates, General Howard was court-martialed in 1874.
The other two were Sidney Edwards and Richard Carey, both eminent men in their day. Dr. Belknap, of Boston, in a letter to a friend in New York says: He may have the sagacity of a Jewish rabbi, or the profundity of a Calvin, or the sublimity of a Homer for aught I know. But time will show forth all things." This sounds almost prophetic in the light of future days.
On February 20th, Forts Chadbourne and Belknap were seized by the Texan Rebels; and on the 22nd, the Federal General Twiggs basely surrendered to them all the fortifications under his control, his little Army, and all the Government stores in his possession comprising $55,000 in specie, 35,000 stand of arms, 26 pieces of mounted artillery, 44 dismounted guns, and ammunition, horses, wagons, forage, etc., valued at nearly $2,000,000.
Belknap did not make any response for some time, but sat, with his eyes upon the floor, in hurried self-examination. "No, Aunt Mary, not too plainly," said he, as he looked at her with a sobered face. "I needed that suggestion, and thank you for having made it." "Mrs. Howitt has a line which beautifully expresses what I mean," said Aunt Mary, in her gentle, earnest way. "It is
Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, would have been convicted but for the extraordinary majority required in the Senate.
Shirley to Newcastle, 6 Nov. 1745. The English documents on the siege of Louisbourg are many and voluminous. The Pepperrell Papers and the Belknap Papers, both in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, afford a vast number of contemporary letters and documents on the subject.
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