The Literature of American History: A Bibliographical Guide, in which the Scope, Character, and Comparative Worth of Books in Selected Lists are Set Forth in Brief Notes by Critics of AuthorityJosephus Nelson Larned, Philip Patterson Wells |
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Page 310 - When the Constitution was adopted by the votes of States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had a right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.
Page 405 - An Account of the Proceedings of the British and other Protestant Inhabitants of Quebeck in North America in order to obtain a House of Assembly in that Province.
Page 263 - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Page 435 - Report of the Proceedings connected "with the disputes between the Earl of Selkirk and the Northwest Company at the Assizes held at York, in Upper Canada, October, 1818.
Page 345 - The Pilgrim Fathers— Collections concerning the Church or Congregation of Protestant Separatists formed at Scrooby, in North Nottinghamshire, in the time of James I., the Founders of New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England.
Page 11 - Whereas the people of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio...
Page 167 - A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the years 1814 and 1815; with some account of the countries visited.
Page 107 - It is the earliest English J. fie earliest account of those settlements, and, as an English account ™**>™i in early w««™ "jtoiy. » of the o highest importance. He [Pittman] was a military engineer, and for five years was employed in surveying the Mississippi River and exploring the western country. The excellent plans which accompany the work, artistically engraved on copper, add greatly to its value.
Page 271 - The Philippine Islands and Their People," a record of personal observation and experience, with a short summary of the more important facts in the history of the archipelago, which has ever since been the acknowledged standard work of information concerning the Islands.
Page 412 - DE BOURLEMAQUE, from Carillon to the Isle Aux Noix in Lake Champlain, from the Journal of a French Officer, on board the Chezine Frigate, Taken by His Majesty's Ship Rippon.