Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Томови 39-44The Society, 1892 |
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... its most important committees . In 1847 he was elected territorial delegate to congress , at that important juncture when the territory was about to apply for admission to the union of states REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . 27.
... its most important committees . In 1847 he was elected territorial delegate to congress , at that important juncture when the territory was about to apply for admission to the union of states REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . 27.
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... TERRITORY OF WYOMING , Į County of Laramie . SS . I , Ed . J. Churchill , a notary public within and for said county , in the territory aforesaid , do hereby certify that Catherine T. Hoyt , to me personally known to be the person whose ...
... TERRITORY OF WYOMING , Į County of Laramie . SS . I , Ed . J. Churchill , a notary public within and for said county , in the territory aforesaid , do hereby certify that Catherine T. Hoyt , to me personally known to be the person whose ...
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... territory in 1814 , and in 1817 set- tled at Dunkirk , Dane county , and later at Stoughton . In 1852 he was elected to the assembly ; in 1855 and in 1857 to the state senate ; in 1860 was appointed one of the trustees of the state ...
... territory in 1814 , and in 1817 set- tled at Dunkirk , Dane county , and later at Stoughton . In 1852 he was elected to the assembly ; in 1855 and in 1857 to the state senate ; in 1860 was appointed one of the trustees of the state ...
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... territory was no more than is now contained by one of a dozen Wisconsin towns outside of Milwaukee ; and the ... territories of the west , under the Dred - Scott decision of the supreme court , and the repeal of the Missouri compro- mise ...
... territory was no more than is now contained by one of a dozen Wisconsin towns outside of Milwaukee ; and the ... territories of the west , under the Dred - Scott decision of the supreme court , and the repeal of the Missouri compro- mise ...
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... Territory and the states that have succeeded it , used these words : ' Here was the first human government under which absolute civil and religious liberty has always prevailed . Here no witch was ever hanged or burned . No heretic was ...
... Territory and the states that have succeeded it , used these words : ' Here was the first human government under which absolute civil and religious liberty has always prevailed . Here no witch was ever hanged or burned . No heretic was ...
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Страница 107 - That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy;* that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom — these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier.
Страница 122 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Страница 78 - Before long he has gone to planting Indian corn and plowing with a sharp stick; he shouts the war cry and takes /the scalp in orthodox Indian fashion. In short, at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the man. He must accept the conditions which it furnishes, or perish, and so he fits himself into the Indian clearings and follows the Indian trails.
Страница 104 - Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint ; they would change their manners with the habits of their life ; would soon forget a government by which they were disowned ; would become hordes of English Tartars, and, pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a...
Страница 101 - But the most important effect of the frontier has been in the promotion of democracy here and in Europe. As has been indicated, the frontier is productive of individualism. Complex society is precipitated by the wilderness into a kind of primitive organization based on the family. The tendency is antisocial. It produces antipathy to control, and particularly to any direct control.
Страница 76 - The peculiarity of American institutions is, the fact that they have been compelled to adapt themselves to the changes of an expanding people — to the changes involved in crossing a continent, in winning a wilderness, and in developing at each area of this progress out of the primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier into the complexity of city life. Said Calhoun in 1817, "We are great, and rapidly — I was about to say fearfully — growing!
Страница 27 - FIRST: I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently can be done. SECOND: All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate...
Страница 122 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are the parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Страница 25 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Страница 104 - Such would be the happy result of an endeavor to keep as a lair of wild beasts that earth which God, by an express charter, has given to the children of men. Far different, and surely much wiser, has been our policy hitherto. Hitherto we have invited our people, by every kind of bounty, to fixed establishments. We have invited the husbandman to look to authority for his title. We have taught him piously to believe in the mysterious virtue of wax and parchment.