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- In Britain, Thomas Clarkson[?] and Granville Sharp[?] formed the "Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
- January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- February 4 - Shay's Rebellion fails
- May 13 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- May 14 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
- May 25 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States (George Washington is presiding).
- September 17 - United States Constitution adopted
- December 7 - Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state.
- December 12 - Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state.
- December 18 - New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state.
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- June 20 - Karl Friedrich Abel, aged 63, German baroque composer
- November 3 - Robert Lowth, Bishop of the Church of England
- November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer
them. I send you, by mail, a copy of my Peoria speech. You may
wish it to become public, that I received such information.
Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN.
LOSS OF PRIMARY FOR SENATOR
TO E. B. WASHBURNE.
SPRINGFIELD, February 9, 1855
MY DEAR SIR:
I began with 44 votes, Shields 41, and Trumbull 5,--yet Trumbull
three new ones on the second ballot, and losing four old ones.
Matteson's work. He has been secretly a candidate ever since
were nevertheless nearly all Democrats and old personal friends.html">friends
that he was as good.html">good.html">good Anti-Nebraska as any one else--at least could
passed.
The Nebraska men, of course, were not for Matteson; but when they
determined to let him get whomever of our men he could, by
though denying that he was a candidate, and we very much
to make a show of good faith to Shields by voting.html">voting for him a few
good faith by voting with us a few times. So we led off. On the
to turn to Matteson, which they acted on to a man, with one
pretended Anti went over to him, giving him 46. The next still
the meantime our friends, with a view of detaining our expected
to 35 and I had been reduced to 15. These would never desert me
prevent Matteson's election one or two ballots more, we could not
return to me from Trumbull. So I determined to strike at once,
they did and elected him on the tenth ballot.
Such is the way the thing was done. I think you would have done
it not been for Matteson's double game--and his defeat now gives
perhaps as well for our general cause that Trumbull is elected.
that could have happened. It is a great consolation to see them
.
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