The States and Territories of the Great West: Including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas and Nebraska ; Their Geography, History, Resources ... Comprising Their Local History, Institutions, and Laws ; Giving a Table of Distances, and the Most Direct Routes ... Also, Pointing Out the Best Districts for Agricultural, Commercial, Lumbering, and Mining OperationsMiller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856 - 352 էջ |
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... arms and a muscular frame could contend successfully with the trees of the forest that had swayed to the winds for centuries . In skillful hands , the American ax is a masterly weapon of warfare upon wood . The burning to ashes of great ...
... arms and a muscular frame could contend successfully with the trees of the forest that had swayed to the winds for centuries . In skillful hands , the American ax is a masterly weapon of warfare upon wood . The burning to ashes of great ...
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... arms , and roared upon a thousand trumpets . Day after day , amid scenes of solitary grandeur , the emigrant had to grope about in the woods with no other guides than the sun and stars , the courses of the hills and streams , hewing for ...
... arms , and roared upon a thousand trumpets . Day after day , amid scenes of solitary grandeur , the emigrant had to grope about in the woods with no other guides than the sun and stars , the courses of the hills and streams , hewing for ...
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... arms , to lessen the jolting of the wagon , without being able to render it the necessary assistance . Many a family has paused on the way to gather a leafy couch for a dying brother or sister . Many a parent has laid in the grave , in ...
... arms , to lessen the jolting of the wagon , without being able to render it the necessary assistance . Many a family has paused on the way to gather a leafy couch for a dying brother or sister . Many a parent has laid in the grave , in ...
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... arms toward the West . It would seem , however , that Nicolet did not understand them to mean a river . He was not sufficiently well acquainted with the language of the Men of the Sea , and he thought they applied the term Great Water ...
... arms toward the West . It would seem , however , that Nicolet did not understand them to mean a river . He was not sufficiently well acquainted with the language of the Men of the Sea , and he thought they applied the term Great Water ...
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... arms so soon as it had been shown to them . Mar. quette gives a description of it : " It is made of polished red stone , like marble ; so pierced , that one end serves to hold the tobacco , while the other is fastened on the stem ...
... arms so soon as it had been shown to them . Mar. quette gives a description of it : " It is made of polished red stone , like marble ; so pierced , that one end serves to hold the tobacco , while the other is fastened on the stem ...
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The States and Territories of the Great West ...: Their Geography, History ... Jacob Ferris Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
The States and Territories of the Great West ...: Their Geography, History ... Jacob Ferris Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
The States and Territories of the Great West: Including Ohio, Indiana ... Jacob Ferris Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
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Էջ 256 - That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Էջ 326 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Էջ 157 - No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Էջ 157 - 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.
Էջ 157 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Էջ 343 - ... if any person taking such oath shall swear falsely in the premises, he shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury, and shall forfeit the money which he may have paid for said...
Էջ 127 - Through an aperture which afforded me a view of the area of the fort I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.
Էջ 295 - Savages' hands; and since they are superstitious, they keep them as so many divinities, or as presents which the gods dwelling beneath the water have given them, and on which their welfare is to depend.
Էջ 342 - ... all questions as to the right of pre-emption arising between different settlers shall be settled by the register and receiver of the district within which the land is situated, subject to an appeal to and a revision by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Էջ 336 - If any person shall entice, decoy or carry away out of this territory any slave belonging to another, with intent to deprive the owner thereof of the services of such slave, or with intent to...