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September the ninth month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of autumn. The name comes (in late Old English) from Latin, from
septem ‘seven’ (being originally the seventh month of the Roman year). The native Old English name was
hærfestmōnaþ harvest month.
September blow soft, till the fruit's in the loft traditional weather rhyme, recorded from the late 16th century.
September massacres a mass killing of political prisoners in Paris on 2–6 September 1792, an event which initiated the
Terror.
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The Salmon P. Chase Pataers, vol 3: Correspondence, 1858-March 1863. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Civil War History; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; The Salmon P. Chase Papers Vol. 4: Correspondence, April 1863-1864. Edited by...State University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxi, 481. $45.00.) Salmon Portland Chase was at the center of American politics and antislavery agitation...
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The Salmon P. Chase Papers, vol 4: Correspondence, April 1863-1864. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Civil War History; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; The Salmon P. Chase Papers Vol. 3: Correspondence, 1858-March 1863. Edited by...State University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxi, 481. $45.00.) Salmon Portland Chase was at the center of American politics and antislavery agitation...
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Safire's massive novel of Lincoln and emancipation
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/23/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Simpson Grant," "George Brinton McClellan," "Salmon Portland Chase," "the Negro," "McClellan Again" and the cumulative...Confederates than on the future presidency. So did Salmon Chase, more intelligent than McClellan but perhaps less...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/19/1991; 256 words
; ...Boston A. The stern visage of Salmon Portland Chase (1808-73), prominent statesman...World Book Encyclopedia notes that Chase, a founder of the Republican Party...banking system. As chief justice, Chase presided over the impeachment trial...
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The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the year 1854--in a decade when abolitionist lawyer Salmon Portland Chase characterized slavery as "the great question of the...antebellum America, as abolitionist lawyers, including Chase, challenged fugitive slave legislation, arguing that...
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Benchmarks of puppets?(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/19/2004; 700+ words
; ...Abraham Lincoln decried the extraction of case-specific promises from Supreme Court nominees. In considering Salmon Portland Chase as chief justice, Lincoln hoped for an appointee who would sustain the constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act...
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Antique treasures Early American furniture blends with seasonal decorations.(Real Estate)(House stories)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 12/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...tree is incapable of stealing the thunder from a circa 1800 grain-painted secretary desk originally owned by Salmon Portland Chase, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the Treasury who later became the sixth chief justice on the U.S. Supreme...
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A race-based drift?(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...otherwise. Thus, the bill would overturn the past and prevailing understanding of the Civil War. As Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase lectured, Ulysses S. Grant's defeat of Robert E. Lee established an indivisible national unity among indestructible...
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One nation under God.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/17/2004; 700+ words
; ...In God We Trust" initially appeared on currency during the Civil War at the direction of Treasury Secretary Salmon Portland Chase, future chief justice of the Supreme Court. In 1956, Congress inserted "under God" in the Pledge and explained...
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List of Supreme Court Chief Justices
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/5/2005; ; 282 words
; ...Melville Weston Fuller; Oct. 8, 1888-July 4, 1910 Morrison Remick Waite; March 4, 1874-March 23, 1888 Salmon Portland Chase; Dec. 15, 1864-May 7, 1873 Roger Brooke Taney; March 28, 1836-Oct. 12, 1864 John Marshall; Feb. 4...
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Chase, Salmon Portland
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND Salmon Portland Chase (1808 – 1873) was a lawyer who was deeply devoted to the antislavery movement. This cause led him to political life, where he became the first Republican governor of Ohio. Though he tried...
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Salmon Portland Chase
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Salmon Portland Chase The American statesman Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was an ardent advocate of African American rights. He was appointed secretary of the Treasury by President Lincoln, who later made him chief justice of the Supreme...
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Albert Bushnell Hart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...one of the most valuable single-volume bibliographies of American history. Of the individual books he wrote, Salmon Portland Chase (1899, repr. 1970) and The Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1901, repr. 1970) were probably most...
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