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...1820s, protectionism became a flaming national issue, with Henry Clay advocating a tariff-walled "American System" and Daniel Webster speaking for freer trade. The debate produced some highly emotive rhetoric. New Jersey's Democratic Representative George Holcombe warned in a House speech that without protective tariffs the nation would see "your agriculture languishing, commerce declining, manufactures perishing, your-but, sir, I cannot, will not finish the picture. It is too utterly repulsive...
Family Man. A Goldwater-Barry's grandfather-was staking his claim in Arizona history before the wild old territory even had a capital. Born in Konin, Russia, in the early 1820s, Michel Goldwasser emigrated at the age of 27 to England, where he married and Anglicized the family name. Lured by tales of the California gold rush, he shipped out for San Francisco in 1852 with his younger brother Joseph, sold whisky and hard goods to the mining camps of Sonora...
Green Henry, Keller's hero, was born in a small Swiss town in the 1820s; his mother is the educated daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make...
...tavern near West Point in the 1820s and was, according to Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, the "only soul in the entire Godforsaken place." Mellowed by Havens' hot ale flips, cadets used to sing (to the tune of The Wearing of the Green) their unofficial West Point song: Come fill your glasses, fellows, and stand up in a row, To singing sentimentally we're going for to go; In the army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow, So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens...
...rule of the Byzantine Empire, which was culturally if not politically Greek. The Ottoman Turks, who conquered Constantinople in 1453, began their 300-year rule of Cyprus in 1570-71. Greece, itself conquered by the Ottomans in 1460, did not win its independence as a modern nation until the 1820s, when it began its long agitation to reunite its scattered peoples. In 1878 that great champion of empire, Britain's Benjamin Disraeli, acquired Cyprus from Turkey in exchange for help against the Russians. Said a onetime Cyprus governor, Sir Ronald Storrs: "No sensible person will deny that the Cypriot...