A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873: Embracing the Physical Features of the Country; Its Early Explorations; Aboriginal Inhabitants; French and British Occupation; Conquest by Virginia; Territorial Condition, and the Subsequent Civil, Military and Political Events of the State |
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... American Immi- grants : LaBalme's Expedition ; The Cession of the Country and Delays Incident thereto ; No Regular Courts of Law ; Curious Land Speculation . 202 XIX . ILLINOIS UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY . Ordinance ...
... American Immi- grants : LaBalme's Expedition ; The Cession of the Country and Delays Incident thereto ; No Regular Courts of Law ; Curious Land Speculation . 202 XIX . ILLINOIS UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY . Ordinance ...
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... American geology . Its supposed beginning , in a considerable degree of advancement in the Silurian System , was regarded by geologists as too abrupt to correspond with the gradual development of types in subsequent strata . The ...
... American geology . Its supposed beginning , in a considerable degree of advancement in the Silurian System , was regarded by geologists as too abrupt to correspond with the gradual development of types in subsequent strata . The ...
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... American wealth and population . Perhaps no other country of the same extent on the face of the globe can boast a soil so ubiquitous in its distribution and so universally productive . Enriched by all the minerals in the crust of the ...
... American wealth and population . Perhaps no other country of the same extent on the face of the globe can boast a soil so ubiquitous in its distribution and so universally productive . Enriched by all the minerals in the crust of the ...
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... America there is a continuous wooded region , extending from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico , while on the Pacific a ... American Desert usurps their place . This alternation of forest , prairie , and desert , corres- ponds with the ...
... America there is a continuous wooded region , extending from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico , while on the Pacific a ... American Desert usurps their place . This alternation of forest , prairie , and desert , corres- ponds with the ...
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... America then be called the old world instead of the new ; and may it not have contained , when these Central American cities were erected , a civilization equal if not superior to that which contemporane- ously existed on the banks of ...
... America then be called the old world instead of the new ; and may it not have contained , when these Central American cities were erected , a civilization equal if not superior to that which contemporane- ously existed on the banks of ...
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Page 523 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Page 729 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 729 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 241 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 211 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land; and, should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Page 166 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Page 647 - Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.
Page 692 - This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and, in accordance with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
Page 729 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 344 - ... well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour affection or hope of reward:" provided also that no state shall be deprived of territory for the- benefit of the united states.