The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, Հատոր 1S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912 |
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... dollars to any ship that should discover and report a navigable route for ships from the Atlantic through to the Pacific ocean . This stimulated hundreds of sea captains to look for such a passage , and still believing in the mythical ...
... dollars to any ship that should discover and report a navigable route for ships from the Atlantic through to the Pacific ocean . This stimulated hundreds of sea captains to look for such a passage , and still believing in the mythical ...
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... dollars . This was the beginning of the great fur trade in old Oregon , Alaska and California . The next navigator to visit this region after Hanna , was the famous French explorer , La Perouse , who was sent out by the French king to ...
... dollars . This was the beginning of the great fur trade in old Oregon , Alaska and California . The next navigator to visit this region after Hanna , was the famous French explorer , La Perouse , who was sent out by the French king to ...
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... dollars for an old iron chisel not worth a dollar . The Americans had decided to send Gray with the Columbia back to Boston , when the quarrel between the English and the Spaniards was at its height ; and to that end , with the furs ...
... dollars for an old iron chisel not worth a dollar . The Americans had decided to send Gray with the Columbia back to Boston , when the quarrel between the English and the Spaniards was at its height ; and to that end , with the furs ...
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... dollars of money . But if all these thousand promoters were boiled down into one man ( he ) they could not do in Oregon what La Salle did in the wilderness of Canada two hun- dred and thirty years ago . With his eloquence of speech ...
... dollars of money . But if all these thousand promoters were boiled down into one man ( he ) they could not do in Oregon what La Salle did in the wilderness of Canada two hun- dred and thirty years ago . With his eloquence of speech ...
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... dollars annually , and of which Astor's big item of pelts does not now amount to more than one hundredth part of one per cent . But the enterprising German was not to have easy sailing . Knowing full well the great influence , wealth ...
... dollars annually , and of which Astor's big item of pelts does not now amount to more than one hundredth part of one per cent . But the enterprising German was not to have easy sailing . Knowing full well the great influence , wealth ...
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Էջ 640 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ; and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Էջ 614 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Էջ 182 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with, or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Էջ 153 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Էջ 218 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other power or state to any part of the said country, the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.
Էջ 181 - 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 xxvii - Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on! " Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson:
Էջ 265 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Էջ 614 - Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned and disinherited, Cries protest to the Judges of the World, A protest that is also prophecy.
Էջ 640 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and in their property rights and liberty they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.