But with this Commission President Buchanan sent a proclamation charging the Saints with treason and other crimes, and then forgave them without an acknowledgement on their part, or a plea for pardon.
In less than a minute the timber and bluffs were lined with mounted Indians charging with all speed upon our guard, horses, and camps.
He admitted his belief that Judge Drummond's lies, charging the Saints with burning court records, led to the sending of the army to Utah.
I don't know whether I admire the ramping lion or the charging unicorn more.
Jackson and Tyler, charging on the extreme left, drove back two colored regiments of infantry upon their main line at the cross roads.
For three weeks they drilled with alacrity in the various movements; charging upon earthworks, wheeling by the right and left, deployment, and other details of the expected operations.
And my thoughts waft on memory's wing, To where their chargingshouts yet ring.
It was his part to combine and give intelligent direction to the whole, instead of charging forward at haphazard with Sedgwick's division.
He was preparing to advance, when the Confederates anticipated him (for their formation had now been completed) and came charging out of the woods across the open fields.
They forced Moor on another horse, and turned tail as the charging lines of infantry came up on right and left as well as the column in the road, for there had not been a moment's pause in the advance.
White, whose duty was to attack the stone wall in front, charging over the broad open fields.
But the routed troops were already swarming from the wood across his front, and their pursuers were charging after them.
Lee's right rested upon the wooded bluffs above the Burnside bridge, where it could only be approached by a small head of column charging along the narrow roadway under a concentrated fire of cannon and small arms.
The charging regiments were advanced in line to the crest above the bridge as soon as they were deployed, and the rest of Sturgis's division, with Crook's brigade, were immediately brought over to strengthen the line.
Brandling's shrewd and independent guidance was moving slowly forward on the right of the ground that had been covered by the charging Heavies.
It is no mere storm of missiles which meets fair in the face those charging heroes; no, it is a moving wall of metal against which they rush to their ruin.
It was now four in the afternoon--the usual time with the Rebels for the execution of their favorite movement--charging in massed columns.
During the next day we were stationed as a Reserve upon the right, and called to arms frequently during the day and night, when the Rebels with their unearthly yells would tempt our artillery by charging upon the works.
Douglas made an impassioned speech to the lobby, charging the Court with having deliberately suppressed its decision on the paramount issue, in order to disarm criticism and to avert the impending reorganization of the bench.
He ridiculed the excessive self-esteem of Sumner in words that moved the Senate to laughter; and then completed his vindictive assault by charging Sumner with perfidy.
Lincoln had invited counter-blows by first charging Douglas with conspiracy.
But however, let us consider them as a party, and under those general tenets wherein they agreed, and which they publicly owned, without charging them with any that they pretend to deny.
Five seconds more and out from the fire-spitting blackness at the south looms the charging column, and a blinding glare lights up the wood, a crashing volley wakes the echoes.
Halters had been broken, and mules and horses were chargingover the tent ropes, nor was the real cause of the confusion discovered for some minutes.
Bands of warriors charging on horseback, delivered their spears simultaneously, and the doomed tree, if not cut over, was at least transfixed by a score of shafts.
The governor of Ankober meanwhile politely insisted upon charging himself with the baggage, his officious zeal extending even to the effects of private individuals, whereby much inconvenience was entailed.
Henry Caswell and others, charging Joseph with a number of crimes and immoralities.
Hussars was seen defiling out from a side street, and coming on towards them at a charging gallop.
The cry came from without, in the tone of a charging shibboleth, other voices adding, "Mueran los tyrannos!
And extending clear across the valley was the foam-crested wave charging down upon the lowlands, but a number of miles away.
Masses of words struck him with the velocity and flying weight of charging masses of water.
He saw himself chargingat the terrible hidalgo, screaming like a little animal, tearing at the doctor's trousers with his finger nails, trying to leap up and upon him.
He took broad grounds in favor of internal improvements, advocated a law prohibiting money-loaners from charging exorbitant rates of interest, and favored liberal appropriations for education.
Justice Davis once remonstrated with him, and insisted that he was doing a grave injustice to his associates at the bar by charging so little for his services.
I have been in the habit of charging as a matter of belief on my part that, in the introduction of the Nebraska Bill into Congress, there was a conspiracy to make slavery perpetual and national.
By the course of Mr. Tyler the policy of our opponents has continued in operation, still leaving them with the advantage of charging all its evils upon us as the results of a Whig administration.
When it occurred, some important State elections were near at hand, and you were in evident glee with the belief that, by charging the blame upon us, you could get an advantage of us in those elections.
You were in evident glee; there was no sorrow for the killed nor for the peace of Virginia disturbed; you were rejoicing that by charging Republicans with this thing you might get an advantage of us in New York, and the other States.
I accomplished this by mounting and charging the Indians between me and the bluffs on the opposite side of the river.
The desperatecharging and fighting was at about 1 P.
With the yell of the charging column the Indians sprang up as if by magic and poured in a rapid fire from all sides.
About twelve or fifteen dismounted men were fighting on the plains with Indians, charging and recharging them.
But while horses and men were crossing the river on the ice, the ice sinking with them until the water was knee-deep, the robbers discovered the escape of their booty, and charging on the trappers tried to recover the horses.
The battle of Gettysburg was now in progress, and on the 2nd of July Custer distinguished himself, and won the respect of his officers, by charging the enemy at the head of a company of his troops, having his horse shot under him.
Finding that they would soon be surrounded and defeated, he again mounted his men, and charging upon such of the enemy as obstructed his way, retreated across the river, and reached the top of a bluff followed closely by Indians.
Agreed," cried the two as quickly, and both sprang with guns and wiping-sticks in hand, charging upon the infuriated beast as it reached the spot where they were awaiting it.
Crook's troops, slumbering on unconscious of danger, were awakened at daybreak by a deafening yell and the crack of musketry on either flank; following which, charging lines regardless of the pickets came immediately on over the breastworks.
Miles sent for his company commanders, and they came charging over the field to receive his final instructions.
Surely telegraph companies would show a sound discretion by lowering the scale to ten words, and charging two-thirds of the present price for twenty.
The enclosed letter he left in our care, charging us--in case of his decease--to forward it immediately to you.
The Castilian chroniclers have endeavoured to fix a deep stain on his memory, by charging him with the murder of El Habaqui, and with the refusal to execute the treaty to which he had given his sanction.
Observe here, as in Charging in the Front; being wary that you sink not the Spear of your Pike, rest it between the Thumb and Fore-finger, keeping your Elbow close to your side.
William had bequeathed his books to the Dean, charging him to allow John to read them when he came of age and had received priest's orders.
She despatched a trusted servant to sell her jade and her jewels, charging him on no account to tell her mother.
Then, too, she had been so meek and lowly while in their holy order that they did not once dream of charging her with any crime.
And on--still on our column kept Through walls of flame its withering way; Where fell the dead, the living stept, Still charging on the guns that swept The slippery streets of Monterey.
