 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1875 - 660 pages
...representative democracy, in the year 1641, almost on the very spot where, a century and a half later, our Republic, founded upon similar principles, was inaugurated, when Washington took the oath of office as first President of the United States. De Vries was chosen president of the Twelve. To that body Kieft... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1216 pages
...organic law of the land. On the 30th of April following, in Federal Hall, in the city of New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. Twenty-seven men have succeeded Washington in. the presidential oflic-c, and today, a little... | |
 | History - 1884 - 624 pages
...recently in New York City, by the unveiling of a noble statue of Washington upon the spot where he took the oath of office as the First President of the United States. The celebration of Oriskany occurred upon the precise spot where that sanguinary conflict was... | |
 | History - 1884 - 624 pages
...recently in New York City, by the unveiling of a noble statue of Washington upon the spot where he took the oath of office as the First President of the United States. The celebration of Oriskany occurred upon the precise spot where that sanguinary conflict was... | |
 | 1885 - 864 pages
...belonging to St. John's Lodge, No. 1 , of the city of New York, upon which, on the 30th of April, 1789, he took the oath of office as the first President of the United States; the "great light," belonging to the Alexandria Washington Lodge, No. 22, of Alexandria, Va.,... | |
 | United States. Commission for Dedication of Washington Monument - Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) - 1885 - 138 pages
...to St. John's Lodge, No. i, in the city of New York, upon which, on the 3Oth day of April, 1789, he took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. Here the great light belonging to Alexandria Washington Lodge, No. 22, of Alexandria, Va.,... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1886 - 930 pages
...of April of the present year. On the morning of that clay in 1789, in the city of New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America. At the close of the inaugural ceremonies, the President and both Houses of Congress,... | |
 | John Roy Musick - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1893 - 446 pages
...homes in undefended places." The autocrat was transformed by the bold attitude of the people. Reason dawned upon his dull brain, and he invited all the...murderer of the wheelwright ought to be demanded of his chief, and whether, in case of the chief's refusal, the Dutch ought to make war upon his tribe... | |
 | Moses King - New York (N.Y.) - 1893 - 1020 pages
...stone, then forming part of the balcony of Federal Hall, and in the same place it now occupies, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States, April 30, 1789. An inscription on the side of the pedestal commemorates the fact that the statue... | |
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Thus were planted the seeds of a representative democracy, in the year 1641, almost on the very spot where, a century and a half later, our... 
