Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West: Containing Accurate Descriptions of the Country and Modes of Life, in the Western States and Territories of North America ... Volume I.Hubbard and Edmands, 1834 - 263 頁 |
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... whole western region , have been failures . Particular de- partments of this great subject , have been well treated . Dr. Drake's admirable description of the Miami valley , entitled " A Picture of Cincinnati , " is written in the cålm ...
... whole western region , have been failures . Particular de- partments of this great subject , have been well treated . Dr. Drake's admirable description of the Miami valley , entitled " A Picture of Cincinnati , " is written in the cålm ...
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... whole region , are in existence . Yet the country affords ample materials . In the historical department a wide and various field is opened . The history of the western country has never been barren of incident . The valley of the ...
... whole region , are in existence . Yet the country affords ample materials . In the historical department a wide and various field is opened . The history of the western country has never been barren of incident . The valley of the ...
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... whole people , when every father defended his own threshold , and even mothers imbrued their hands in blood to protect their offspring . Few of these events will live in history . They formed no part of any national war , either for ...
... whole people , when every father defended his own threshold , and even mothers imbrued their hands in blood to protect their offspring . Few of these events will live in history . They formed no part of any national war , either for ...
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... with infinite glory to the American arms , had infused a military spirit into the whole nation , besides afford- ing to all whose bosoms glowed with the love of lib- erty , or swelled with the aspirations of ambition , 16 INTRODUCTION .
... with infinite glory to the American arms , had infused a military spirit into the whole nation , besides afford- ing to all whose bosoms glowed with the love of lib- erty , or swelled with the aspirations of ambition , 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... whole land in small companies , selecting the most fertile spots without reference to the locality of others . The tide of emi- gration , as it is often called , came not like the swell- ing billows of the ocean , overwhelming all the ...
... whole land in small companies , selecting the most fertile spots without reference to the locality of others . The tide of emi- gration , as it is often called , came not like the swell- ing billows of the ocean , overwhelming all the ...
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第 212 頁 - The legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bonafide purchasers.
第 213 頁 - The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
第 221 頁 - So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the General Assembly...
第 123 頁 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
第 213 頁 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
第 222 頁 - The General Assembly, or Legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be a quorum, and the members of the council shall be nominated and appointed in the following manner...
第 214 頁 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
第 223 頁 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled, in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to congress, who shall have a seat in congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting during this temporary government.
第 215 頁 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with, or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
第 214 頁 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.