Category: History - American
The native Kentuckian has a deep and abiding affection for the "Old Commonwealth" which gave him birth. It is as passionate a sentiment, too--and some might add, as irrational--as the love of a Frenchman for his native France. But it is an innocent idolatry in both, and both a...
The native Kentuckian has a deep and abiding affection for the "Old Commonwealth" which gave him birth. It is as passionate a sentiment, too--and some might add, as irrational--...
2. Part 2THE GOTHIC MIGRATION--SCANDINAVIAN PIRATES--THEIR FOOT-PRINTS ON ENGLISH SOIL--NORMANS HOTLY RECEIVED BY THEIR KINDRED, THE DANES--OLD GOTHIC WARS--"THE YENGHEES AND THE DIXEES"...
3. Part 3It was the sensational paper of the day, and even the most phlegmatic English scholar was stirred by this defiant bugle-blast from a philosophic French explorer who was not only...
4. Part 4A loyal Briton does not lightly abandon what he conceives to be established or traditional views. This trait does not imply defect of philosophic insight or want of wide researc...
5. Part 5The continuous application of three acute and powerful minds along the same line of thought, in the first half of the last century--an unconscious or undesigned collaboration (s...
6. Part 6Evil days came to Ben's master, and Ben was sold--becoming the joint chattel of the young swells of the poker-room. But the joint chattel proved to be too versatile for his voca...
7. Part 7The sagacious statesmen of Spain were not slow to detect the menacing significance of this Virginian settlement, small as it was; and the conflict then initiated did not cease u...
8. Part 8Mr. Freeman says that the Normans "lost themselves" among the people whom they conquered. Very clearly, however, the "names" were not lost. The original Norman may be said to ha...
9. Part 9Be this as it may, it is desirable to have it understood that so long as the Saxon holds his _own_ (and no more) in the constitution of our common race, there can arise no possi...
10. Part 10_Andrews._ Geoffrey Andreas, 1180 (Normandy). Landaff W. Andrews, a bold, able, and popular Whig leader (Ky.), conspicuous in Congress (1842), and characterized by John Quincy A...
11. Part 11_Boleyn._ Queen Anna Boleyn was great-granddaughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London, temp. Henry VI. The family had formerly been of great consequence. There were t...
12. Part 12_Cabbell._ Walter Cabel is on record as having witnessed a charter in Wiltshire, in the Eleventh Century. This Walter Cabel came over with the Conqueror. The Normans used the wo...
13. Part 13_Davis._ Mr. Burton N. Harrison, in his graphic "Century" narrative of the Capture of Jefferson Davis, records the last "War" speech of the Southern President. It was addressed...
14. Part 14_Halliday_, from Halyday, Normandy. A name historically associated in America with the great Overland Route, as is also Blanchard (q.v.). Benjamin Holliday, William Blanchard, a...
15. Part 15Theodore O'Hara was a Kentuckian by birth and training. He was a gallant soldier in the Mexican War; second officer in the first Lopez Expedition; a colonel in the Confederate s...
16. Part 16"BLUE GRASS"; or a Poa found at the Straits of Magellan, 48 "a cosmopolitan grass" with peculiar affinity for the soil of Kentucky.--The "grass" and the "race."--Opinion express...
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