Proceedings [of The] Annual Business Meeting, Том 63State Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1916 |
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Страница 127 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Страница 78 - All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good : And, in spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Страница 172 - ... sympathizers, revolutionary societies, and "seditious writings;" that there had been riots and uprisings, lampoons and caricatures, follies and foibles, quite as foolish if not quite so widethe Indians as affording " an opening for a settling in some manner satisfactory to both parties, the difficulties which have occurred to prevent the execution of that part of the treaty which relates to the cession of the Posts.
Страница 127 - there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted...
Страница 125 - The latter also affirmed that a black man could not raise the question of his right to freedom in the federal courts, because he was not a citizen of the United States, and could not sue in its courts. If these claims to distinction are sustained, the case may fairly be described as a great one.
Страница 166 - Seriousness, that their Regulations had been dictated by a View to their own Interest, and therefore as we felt no favor, we owned no Obligation. The Subject being now pretty well exhausted, they promised to consult together and give -me the Result of their Deliberations. This I am yet to receive, but I learn that Mr. Grenville has this Day consulted some Persons skilled in the Fur Trade, and that from his Conversation it seemed probable that they would give up the Posts. My Information is good.
Страница 161 - To afford them active assistance would at the present moment be a measure extremely imprudent, but at the same time it would not become us to refuse them such supplies of ammunition as might enable them to defend themselves.2" Grenville's policy was more honorable and humane.
Страница 198 - The Land on both sides of the River is at one time Mountainous & barren and at other times even & fertile, but in the Back part a tree can hardly be found. The best Quality of Land is found in the Mandaine Country, this quality of Land extends itself on the West as far as the East chain of the Rocky Mountains which are about 170 league to the West of the Mandaines, it is at these Mountains where the great Meadows And Prairies terminate the Country then begins to be Absolutely Covered with trees even...
Страница 175 - ... would certainly be better for both nations and the most likely means to prevent jealousies and quarrels that the intermediate country between the limits assigned to Canada by the provisional treaty and those established as formerly mentioned by that in the year 1768 should be considered entirely as belonging to the Indians, and that the subjects neither of Great Britain nor of the American States should be allowed to settle within them, but that the subjects of each should have liberty to trade...
Страница 122 - I observed the ruins of a French Factory, where it is said Captain ST. PIERRE resided, and carried on a very great trade with the Naudawessies, before the reduction of Canada.