Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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... Tennessee , while many came from southern Illinois . In 1825 there were in the Fever River diggings about 100 persons engaged in mining ; in 1826 the number rose to 453 , while across the river in Missouri there were fully 2,000 men ...
... Tennessee , while many came from southern Illinois . In 1825 there were in the Fever River diggings about 100 persons engaged in mining ; in 1826 the number rose to 453 , while across the river in Missouri there were fully 2,000 men ...
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... Tennessee , and the Ohio , with the mountains inter- vening between them and the Atlantic area , thus giving a new and important character to the frontier . The isolation of the region increased its peculiarly American tendencies , and ...
... Tennessee , and the Ohio , with the mountains inter- vening between them and the Atlantic area , thus giving a new and important character to the frontier . The isolation of the region increased its peculiarly American tendencies , and ...
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... Tennessee history bears abundant wit- ness to the truth of this statement . The East began to try to hedge and limit westward expansion . Though Webster could declare that there were no Alleghanies in his politics , yet in politics in ...
... Tennessee history bears abundant wit- ness to the truth of this statement . The East began to try to hedge and limit westward expansion . Though Webster could declare that there were no Alleghanies in his politics , yet in politics in ...
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... Tennessee ; 1812 , Louisiana ; 1817 , Mississippi ; 1819 , Alabama . Free . - 1791 , Vermont ; 1803 , Ohio ; 1816 , Indiana ; 1818 , Illi- nois . The slave States had gained one from the start ; with the assurance of Alabama's admission ...
... Tennessee ; 1812 , Louisiana ; 1817 , Mississippi ; 1819 , Alabama . Free . - 1791 , Vermont ; 1803 , Ohio ; 1816 , Indiana ; 1818 , Illi- nois . The slave States had gained one from the start ; with the assurance of Alabama's admission ...
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... final settle- ment . Barbour , of Virginia , attempted to have the line fixed at 40 ° and 30 ' ; only three Senators voted for his proposition . Eaton , of Tennessee , offered as a substitute for 260 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .
... final settle- ment . Barbour , of Virginia , attempted to have the line fixed at 40 ° and 30 ' ; only three Senators voted for his proposition . Eaton , of Tennessee , offered as a substitute for 260 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .
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Страница 174 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people— and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going— it is not to be wondered that they should then rouse themselves and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected...
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Страница 224 - ... collectors and comptrollers, and of all the slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and in no long time must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime and to suppress as an evil the command and blessing of Providence,
Страница 370 - We are too well acquainted with the liberality of sentiment distinguishing your nation, to imagine, that difference of religion will prejudice you against a hearty amity with us. You know that the transcendant nature of freedom elevates those who unite in her cause, above all such low-minded infirmities.
Страница 173 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, •with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
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Страница 166 - having endeavored to subvert the constitution of this kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and People, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.