Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History: From 458 A.D. to 1902, Volumen5Harper & Bros., 1901 |
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... Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi River . Marquette found some of them ( the Peorias and Moingwe- Ninian Edwards .... ....... commissioned .... April 24 , 1809 nas ) near Des Moines , west of the Mis- STATE GOVERNORS . Shadrach ...
... Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi River . Marquette found some of them ( the Peorias and Moingwe- Ninian Edwards .... ....... commissioned .... April 24 , 1809 nas ) near Des Moines , west of the Mis- STATE GOVERNORS . Shadrach ...
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... Michigan , Wisconsin , Illinois , and Indiana , had been claimed under their charters by Virginia , New York , Connecti- cut , and Massachusetts , but they ceded their claims to the United States . The country so ceded was our first ...
... Michigan , Wisconsin , Illinois , and Indiana , had been claimed under their charters by Virginia , New York , Connecti- cut , and Massachusetts , but they ceded their claims to the United States . The country so ceded was our first ...
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... Michigan to Cali- fornia . An aristocratic government , composed of men who have inherited political ability from a long line of governing ancestry , and who have been especially trained for that work from boyhood , so that both by ...
... Michigan to Cali- fornia . An aristocratic government , composed of men who have inherited political ability from a long line of governing ancestry , and who have been especially trained for that work from boyhood , so that both by ...
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... Michigan and Illinois . John In 1803 a movement was made in Con- gress for suspending for a limited term , in the case of Indiana Territory , the pro- vision of the ORDINANCE OF 1787 ( q . v . ) prohibiting slavery northward of the Ohio ...
... Michigan and Illinois . John In 1803 a movement was made in Con- gress for suspending for a limited term , in the case of Indiana Territory , the pro- vision of the ORDINANCE OF 1787 ( q . v . ) prohibiting slavery northward of the Ohio ...
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... Michigan , N. Indiana , and N. W. Ohio S. Illinois and Indiana . N. and central Illinois . Northern Illinois . Michigan . Northern Wisconsin . ( Southern shore of Lake Superior . Southern shore of Lake Superior . ( Southern shore of ...
... Michigan , N. Indiana , and N. W. Ohio S. Illinois and Indiana . N. and central Illinois . Northern Illinois . Michigan . Northern Wisconsin . ( Southern shore of Lake Superior . Southern shore of Lake Superior . ( Southern shore of ...
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Página 453 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 134 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 135 - These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment ; they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander from them in moments of error or...
Página 428 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.
Página 135 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided : absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Página 427 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 279 - Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Página 133 - And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 134 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Página 427 - The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...