West American History, Volume 25Bancroft Company, 1902 - British Columbia |
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Popular passages
Page 431 - Constitution, which was to be submitted to the people at an election to be held on the second Tuesday of October, 1864. The act also provided that in...
Page 135 - He came to the United States with his parents at the age of 12 years, residing for 6 years in 111., and joining the Argonauts in California in 1849.
Page 431 - ... campaign was a stirring one, several newspapers being devoted to manufacturing a favorable public opinion ; but the people, knowing there was an empty treasury, and not being desirous of replenishing it to the requirements of a state government, decided that it was inexpedient, and voted against it." There was yet another reason why many rejected the constitution. The organic act of the territory, formed ere yet the civil war had burned its bill of rights so terribly into the conscience of the...
Page xxv - CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC, From the Valley of the Mississippi to California. JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION OF EF BEALE, SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN CALIFORNIA, AND GWINN HARRIS HEAP, From Missouri to California, in 1853.
Page 159 - The legislature sat sixty days, and passed private toll-road franchises all the time. When they adjourned it was estimated that every citizen owned about three franchises, and it was believed that unless Congress gave the Territory another degree of longitude there would not be room enough to accommodate the toll-roads, The ends of them were hanging over the boundary line everywhere like a fringe.
Page 738 - ... $900 stole ; $500 returned; thieves — F. St. Clair, W. Grier, ED Brownville. City authorities please not interfere until 10 o'clock am Next case goes up a tree. Beware of Vigilance Committee...
Page 81 - The abandonment of Carson county " by the Mormons left it with a scant population, and for a time without a government, although attached by an act of the legislature to Great Salt Lake county for election, revenue, and judicial purposes. From July 5, 1856, to September 12, 1859, the operation of the probate court was suspended, although the county was allowed to retain its organization so far as a recorder, surveyor, and precinct officers were concerned, and these might be elected in accordance...
Page 466 - Interior Department will be ready to make presents too soon. It is better to chastise before giving anything but a little tobacco to talk over. No peace must be made without my directions.
Page 418 - ... as a crest above the shield, the eye of God, being golden rays proceeding from the lines of a triangle; below the crest and above the shield, as a scroll, the Roman fasces bearing upon a band of red, white, and blue the words 'Union and Constitution'; below the whole the motto, 'Nil Sine Numine'; the whole to be surrounded by the words, 'State of Colorado...
Page 776 - However unwilling we may be to confess it, the experience of the past summer proves either the inefficiency of the large military force under the command of such officers as Generals Sheridan, Terry, and Crook, or the utter impracticability of keeping Americans out of a country where gold is known to exist by any fear of orders or of United States cavalry, or by any consideration of the rights of others.