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Page 302 - that may be admitted Into the Confederacy, without any tax, Impost or duty therefor." This plainly meant "navigable" for the canoes and bateaux then used for navigation, and the early legislation was based on that understanding.
Page 447 - State of Indiana that shall recognize any liability of this State to pay or redeem any certificate of stock issued in pursuance" of the settlement of 1847. This was agreed to by the next General Assembly and submitted to the voters. 101 By proclamation of the governor this was voted on
Page 282 - one-third of our dwelling houses are destitute of inhabitants, our population has decreased nearly or quite one-half, our real property has suffered a greater diminution. Buildings, that a few years ago rented for $200 or $300 per annum now rent for $50 to $100. An universal despondency prevails.
Page 332 - We present almost the only example of a State professing to have in force a system of common school education, which does not know the amount or condition of Its school funds, the number of schools and scholars to be taught and to receive the distribution of those funds. It is a body without a head.
Page 163 - down to sleep. The next night they encamped in a rich valley, where they found an abundance of fallen timber, thus enabling them to keep up a warm fire through the night, before which they slept very comfortably till morning. During the night a couple of panthers, attracted by the light of the fire, approached sufficiently near
Page 540 - humble. It asks nothing it will not concede. It concedes nothing it does not demand. Destructive only to despotism, it is the only preserver of liberty, labor and prosperity. It is the sentiment of freedom, equal rights, and equal obligations.
Page 287 - Jackson opposed the banks, and, on that ground, received the support of great numbers of financially embarrassed settlers who attributed the scarcity of money to the manipulation of bankers. These men held a State convention at Salem, September 16, 1824, and nominated an electoral ticket and appointed a State committee to conduct the campaign.
Page 330 - 56 EDUCATION UNFORTUNATELY the high hopes of the first settlers of Indiana for the foundation of a common school system were not realized. The constitution directed the General Assembly to provide for a complete system of schools, "ascending in regular gradation from township schools to a State University.
Page 52 - for rebellion. By its terms all the lands north of the Ohio, east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes were attached to Quebec.
Page 540 - Democracy is a sentiment not to be appalled, corrupted nor compromised. It knows no baseness, cowers at no danger, oppresses no weakness. Fearless, generous, humane, It rebukes the arrogant, cherishes honor, and sympathises with