http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0308137
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
is part of: Thirty years' view
creator: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858
issued: 2015-07-24
issued: 1861
description: "Presents a step-by-step account of the development of the Oregon question and its solution, as part of the political history of the United States. Also published with imprint: New York & London, D. Appleton & Company."Subsequently reprinted without alterations and dated 1860, 1861, 1865, etc.":- Sabin." -- Strathern, G. M. , & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 18.
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extent: vi, [iii]-ix, 739, xxvi pages : frontispiece (portrait), tables ; 24 cm
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note: THIRTY TEARS' VIEW; OR, A HISTORY OF THE WORKING OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ?OR THIRTY YEARS, FROM 1820 TO 1850. CUTEFLY TAKES FROM THE CONGRESS DEBATES, "THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF GENERAL JACKSON AND THE SPEECHES OF EX-SENATOR BENTON, "WITH HIS ACTUAL 'VIEW OF MEN AND AFFAIRS: HISTORICAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, AND SOME NOTICES OF EMINENT DECEASED COTEMPORAREES: BY A SENATOR OF THIRTY YEARS. Iff TWO VOLUMES. VOL I. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 443 AND 445 BROADWAY. LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN. Wfrk AUTO-BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. [The outline's of the life of the lately deceased Thomas H. Benton, which are contained in the following pages, were prepared by the author and subject of them whilst he was suffering excruciating pain from the disease that, a few weeks later, closed his earthly career. They were not intended for a Biography, properly so called, but rather to present some salient points of character and some chief incidents of lift-, and in respect of them, at least, to govern subsequent Biographies.] Thomas Hart Bbkton, known as a senator for thirty years in Congress, and as the author of several works, was born in Orange County, near Hillsborough, North Carolina. March' 14th, 1782; and was the son of Col. Jesse Benton, an able lawyer of that State, and of Ann GoOch, of Hanover county, Virginia, of the family of the Goodies of colonial residence in that State. By this descent, on the mother's side, he took his name from the head of the Hart family (Col. Thomas Hart, of Lexington, Kentucky), his mother's maternal uncle; and so became related to the numerous Hart family. He was cousin to Mrs. Clay, born Luc ret ia Hart, the wife of Henry Clay; and, by an easy mistake, was often quoted during his publio life as the relative of Mr. Clay himself. He lost his father before he was eight years of age, and fell under the care of a mother still young, and charged with a numerous family, all of tender age—and devoting herself to them. She was a woman of reading and obser…
note: Includes index Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/425590
has type: Books
identifier: E338 .B472
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0308137
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
publisher: London : D. Appleton and Company
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. E338 .B472
subject: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858
subject: United States--Politics and government--1815-1861
subject: United States--History--1815-1861
subject: Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century
title: Thirty years' view; or, a history of the working of the American government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850 : chiefly taken from the Congress debates, the private papers of General Jackson and the speeches of ex-Senator Benton, with his actual view of men and affairs: with historical notes and illustrations, and some notices of eminent deceased cotemporaries
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