History of West Virginia, Old and New, Volume 1American Historical Society, 1923 - West Virginia |
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acres Alleghenies Baltimore and Ohio bank became began bridge Buckhannon building built cent Charleston Cheat Cheat river church Clarksburg coal Company Confederate connection constitution construction convention county court county seat court house creek Cumberland delegates district early East eastern election erected established Fairmont farm Ferry Fork ginia Governor Greenbrier Greenbrier county Guyandotte Harrison horses increased Indians industrial John Kanawha Kanawha river Kanawha valley land later legislature Lewis Lewis county Lewisburg located Maryland ment miles mill Monongahela Monongahela Valley Monongalia Monongalia county Morgantown mountains mouth Ohio river organized Parkersburg passed Pennsylvania Pittsburg Pocahontas Point Pleasant population Potomac President Preston Preston county railroad railway Randolph Randolph county region result river road route secession secure Senate settlement settlers South Branch Telephone tion town turnpike Union valley vote wagon West Virginia western Virginia Weston Wheeling
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Page 642 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 642 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 359 - ARTICLE IV. Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for two years ; a Lieutenant-Governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term.
Page 364 - The children of slaves born within the limits of this State after the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be free ; and that all slaves within the said State who shall, at the time aforesaid, be under the age of ten years, shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years ; and all slaves over ten and under twentyone years shall be free when they arrive at the age of twentyfive years ; and no slave shall be permitted to come into the State for permanent residence...
Page 296 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 204 - States, authorizing the corporation to have and maintain the bridge at that site and elevation, and requiring the captains and crews of all vessels and boats navigating the river to regulate the use thereof, and of any pipes or chimneys belonging thereto, so as not to interfere with the elevation and construction of the bridge (act of Aug.
Page 550 - That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Page 246 - July in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six written, printed and published in the City of New York and State of New York and was styled and entitled "New York Tribune...
Page 352 - State should reconsider their ordinances of secession, and again recognize the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land.
Page 316 - The majority of the men in the State, who pay and fight for its support, are unrepresented in the legislature, the roll of freeholders entitled to vote not including generally the half of those on the roll of the militia, or of the tax-gatherers.