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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... savage life , from contact with wild beasts to warfare with human beings . Other motives , however , equally powerful , influenced men of widely different char- acters to resort to the western country . The criminal , flying from ...
... savage life , from contact with wild beasts to warfare with human beings . Other motives , however , equally powerful , influenced men of widely different char- acters to resort to the western country . The criminal , flying from ...
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... discipline acquired in the army , and manifesting a most courageous diligence in subduing alike the wilder ness and its savage inhabitants . Rocky New England , 1 EARLY EMIGRATION . 15 also , sent forth its hardy 14 THE GREAT WEST .
... discipline acquired in the army , and manifesting a most courageous diligence in subduing alike the wilder ness and its savage inhabitants . Rocky New England , 1 EARLY EMIGRATION . 15 also , sent forth its hardy 14 THE GREAT WEST .
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... savage sights and savage sounds , he was moving onward through perpetual shade . His present situation would be apt to make the stoutest heart feel its weakness and dependence . Alone in the wilderness , the trees must be his companions ...
... savage sights and savage sounds , he was moving onward through perpetual shade . His present situation would be apt to make the stoutest heart feel its weakness and dependence . Alone in the wilderness , the trees must be his companions ...
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... savage state , may sometimes , indeed , be intensely pleasurable in its excitements ; but it will have lost the elasticity of its spring , and be incapa- ble of vibrating , except when some opposing force is hurled violently against it ...
... savage state , may sometimes , indeed , be intensely pleasurable in its excitements ; but it will have lost the elasticity of its spring , and be incapa- ble of vibrating , except when some opposing force is hurled violently against it ...
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... savage tribes . And all around the southern shore of Lake Superior , and in the lower peninsula of Michigan north of the Grand River , in the north - western portions of Wisconsin , and the western part of Iowa , is the great wilderness ...
... savage tribes . And all around the southern shore of Lake Superior , and in the lower peninsula of Michigan north of the Grand River , in the north - western portions of Wisconsin , and the western part of Iowa , is the great wilderness ...
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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...