Word: clays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shooting contest Thursday between Bogardus and Carver, at Cincinnatio, the former scored 63 and the latter 92 clay pigeons. Bogardus is sick...
...tariff of 1828. This tariff was planned by John Quincy Adams, the leader of the Republican party at that time. All the tariffs after this were the results of party feeling. The tariff of 1833 was a compromise act between the two parties, and was arranged by Clay and Calhoun. Its purpose was to bring all duties to twenty per cent. ad valorem. This is probably the poorest tariff passed by any nation. The Congress which came in in 1842 put in a new tariff, entirely different from that of 1833. The Whigs being then in power, passed a bill...
...protectionists would do well if they could secure a privileged position for their doctrines and their speakers. They need such extraneous support. 'Dogmatism' is a big word. It is easy to sling it about. It answers no facts or arguments. The protectionists fall back on authority. Henry Clay believed in protection. Lincoln signed the tariff bill. Charles Sumner voted for it, etc. I have never debated all that rubbish. The tariff question is not to be settled by any such considerations as that. The protectionists get lachrymose. They are grieved that there is not more respect for autiquity. They sigh...
...about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto. The tablets are covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns of forty lines each, so that there are seventy-two columns in all. Of the poem about a third has been recovered, which...
...life of Henry Clay in the American Statesmen series is to be written by Carl Schurz, and that of Patrick Henry by Professor Moses Coit Taylor...