Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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... Territory of Kansas . The municipal life of Lawrence is instructive as illustrating the development of free institutions . The town was settled by New Englanders , sent out by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society , and they brought ...
... Territory of Kansas . The municipal life of Lawrence is instructive as illustrating the development of free institutions . The town was settled by New Englanders , sent out by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society , and they brought ...
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... territory , have stirred the whole people to a degree that allowed little time to consider the history they were making from month to month and year to year . The form of our Government , too , has been detrimental to an early ...
... territory , have stirred the whole people to a degree that allowed little time to consider the history they were making from month to month and year to year . The form of our Government , too , has been detrimental to an early ...
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... 1793 that occurred in the territory embraced in the ordinance of 1787. Research in Virginia has enabled me to complete the story , which presents some 93 The First Fugitive Slave Case of Record in Ohio, by William Henry Smith.
... 1793 that occurred in the territory embraced in the ordinance of 1787. Research in Virginia has enabled me to complete the story , which presents some 93 The First Fugitive Slave Case of Record in Ohio, by William Henry Smith.
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... territory beyond , but is extended over the Swedes as well as " over any other nations in those parts to whom the mercy of God shall open a way . " In the year 874 A. D. , Iceland was colonized ; but the church had not reached Norway ...
... territory beyond , but is extended over the Swedes as well as " over any other nations in those parts to whom the mercy of God shall open a way . " In the year 874 A. D. , Iceland was colonized ; but the church had not reached Norway ...
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... territory of a certain chief , Batimansa , south of the Gambia , he says , " I wanted to make an experiment by sending James , a certain Indian , whom the Lord Infant sent with us , so that if we should enter India we might have an ...
... territory of a certain chief , Batimansa , south of the Gambia , he says , " I wanted to make an experiment by sending James , a certain Indian , whom the Lord Infant sent with us , so that if we should enter India we might have an ...
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Страница 172 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
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...
Страница 235 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Страница 224 - The people would occupy without grants. They have already so occupied in many places. You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another.
Страница 259 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
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.
Страница 361 - Majesty has likewise agreed that the navigation of the said River in its whole breadth from its source to the Ocean shall be free only to his Subjects, and the Citizens of the United States, unless he should extend this privilege to the Subjects of other Powers by special convention.
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.