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See also:STEVENS, . THADDEUS (1792-1868), See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Danville, See also:Vermont, on the 4th of See also:April 1792. He graduated at See also:Dartmouth See also:College in 1814, removed to See also:York, See also:Pennsylvania, was admitted to the See also:bar (in See also:Maryland), and for fifteen years practised at See also:Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was a leader of the See also:Anti-Masons in Pennsylvania, and was prominent in the See also:national Anti-Masonic See also:Convention at See also:Baltimore in 1831. He served in the Pennsylvania See also:House of Representatives, first as an Anti-See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason and later as a Whig, in 1833—1835, 1838—1839 and 1841—1842. On the 11th of April 1835 he made an eloquent speech in See also:defence of See also:free public See also:education. A partner's venture in the See also:iron business having involved him'in a See also:debt of $217,000, he retired from public See also:life in 1842 and practised See also:law in See also:Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with such success as within six years to reduce this debt to $30,000. He frequently appeared in behalf of fugitive slaves before the Pennsylvania courts, and previously, in the See also:state constitutional convention of 1837, he had refused to sign the constitution limiting the See also:suffrage to See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white freemen. In 1840 he did much in Pennsylvania to bring about the See also:election of W. H. See also:Harrison, and in the See also:campaign of 1844 Stevens again rendered marked services to the Whig See also:ticket. He was a Whig representative in See also:Congress in 1849—1853, and was leader of the See also:radical Whigs and Free-Soilers, strongly opposing the See also:Compromise See also:Measures of 185o, and being especially See also:bitter in his denunciations of the Fugitive Slave Law. In 1855 he took a prominent See also:part in organizing the Republican party in Pennsylvania, and in 1856 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, in which he opposed the nomination of See also:John C. See also:Fremont. He returned to the National House of Representatives in 1859 and bitterly criticized the vacillation of See also:Buchanan's See also:administration. He became chairman of the ways and means See also:committee on the 4th of See also:July 1861, and until his See also:death was, as See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James G. See also:Blaine said, " the natural leader who assumed his See also:place by See also:common consent." During the See also:Civil See also:War he was instrumental in having necessary See also:revenue measures passed in behalf of the administration. He was not, however, - in perfect See also:harmony with See also:Lincoln, who was far more conservative as well as broader minded and more magnanimous than he; besides this Stevens See also:felt it an injustice that Lincoln in choosing a member of his See also:cabinet from Pennsylvania had preferred See also:Cameron to himself. During the war Stevens urged emancipation of the slave, and earnestly advocated the raising of See also:negro regiments. He not only opposed the See also:president's " ten per cent. See also:plan" in See also:Louisiana and See also:Arkansas (i.e. the plan which provided that these states might be reorganized by as many as Io / of the number of voters in 186o who should ask for See also:pardon and take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to the See also:United States), but he also refused to accept the See also:Wade-See also:Davis See also:Bill as being far too moderate in See also:character. On the See also:motion of Stevens (Dec. 4, 1565), the two houses appointed a See also:joint committee on reconstruction, and Stevens
was made chairman of the House committee. In his speech ~ was again Democratic nominee for See also:vice-president in 'goo, but of the 18th of See also:December 1865 he asserted that See also:rebellion had
ipso facto blotted out of being all states in the See also:South, that that See also:section was then a " conquered See also:province," and that its See also:government was in the hands of Congress, which could do with it as it wished. He introduced from the joint committee what became, with changed clause as to the basis of See also:representation, the Fourteenth See also:Amendment, and also the Reconstruction See also:Act of the 6th of See also:February 1867. He also advocated the Freedmen's See also:Bureau bills and the See also:Tenure of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office Act, and went beyond Congress in favouring the See also:confiscation of the See also:property of the Confederate States and "of the real See also:estate of 70,000 rebels who own above 200 acres each, together with the lands of their several states," for the benefit of the freedmen and loyal whites and to reimburse, it was said, the sufferers from See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, during which Stevens's own ironworks at See also:Chambersburg had been destroyed. He led Congress in the struggle with the president, and after the president's removal of Secretary of War See also:Stanton he reported the See also:impeachment See also:resolution to the house and was chairman of the committee appointed to draft the articles of impeachment. He was one of the managers appointed to conduct the See also:case for the House of Representatives before the See also:Senate, but owing to See also:ill-See also:health he took little part in the trial itself. He died at See also:Washington, D.C., on the 11th of See also:August r868, and was buried at Lancaster. Pennsylvania.'
Stevens was an extreme See also:partisan in politics; and his opponents and critics have always charged him with being vindictive and revengeful toward the South. Instead of obtaining political and social equality for the negro, his policy intensified racial antagonism, forced practically all of the white See also:people of the South into the Democratic party, and increased the difficulties in the way of a See also:solution of the See also:race problem; the policy, however, was the result of the passions and political exigencies of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and Stevens cannot be held responsible except as the leader of the dominant See also:faction in Congress. He was an able, terse, forcible See also:speaker, See also:master of bitter See also:sarcasm, See also:irony, stinging ridicule, and, less often used, See also:good-humoured wit.
See S. \V. McCall's Thaddeus Stevens (See also:Boston and New York, 1899), in the American Statesmen See also:Series, a sympathetic, but judicious See also:biography; also J. F. See also:Rhodes, See also:History of' he United States from the Compromise of 185o, especially vol. v. (New York, 1904).
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