A History of the United States: For Families and LibrariesMason brothers, 1857 - 672 էջ |
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... INDIANS .... 9 68. PLAN OF CHARLESTON IN 1680 . 166 3. PORTRAIT OF RED JACKET . 9 4. A WIGWAM 13 69. EARLY NEW ENGLAND HOUSE . 70. DUTCHMAN , 1660 ... 176 176 5. WAMPUM 7. INDIAN WEAPONS .. 8. CALUMETS .. 13 71. PLAN OF FORT DU QUESNE ...
... INDIANS .... 9 68. PLAN OF CHARLESTON IN 1680 . 166 3. PORTRAIT OF RED JACKET . 9 4. A WIGWAM 13 69. EARLY NEW ENGLAND HOUSE . 70. DUTCHMAN , 1660 ... 176 176 5. WAMPUM 7. INDIAN WEAPONS .. 8. CALUMETS .. 13 71. PLAN OF FORT DU QUESNE ...
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... INDIAN WEAPONS.3 6 With the Indians , as with many oriental nations , women were regarded as inferior beings . They were degraded to the condition of abject slaves , and they never engaged with the men in their amusements of leaping ...
... INDIAN WEAPONS.3 6 With the Indians , as with many oriental nations , women were regarded as inferior beings . They were degraded to the condition of abject slaves , and they never engaged with the men in their amusements of leaping ...
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... Indians had any true government . It was a mixture of the patriarchal and despotic . Public opinion and common usage were the only laws of the Indian . ' All political power was vested in a sachem or chief , who was sometimes an ...
... Indians had any true government . It was a mixture of the patriarchal and despotic . Public opinion and common usage were the only laws of the Indian . ' All political power was vested in a sachem or chief , who was sometimes an ...
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... Indians , discovered by the French in Canada , ' were in- habitants of the vicinity of Quebec , and the adventurers called them Mon- tagners , or Mountain Indians , from a range of high hills westward of that city . Ascending the St ...
... Indians , discovered by the French in Canada , ' were in- habitants of the vicinity of Quebec , and the adventurers called them Mon- tagners , or Mountain Indians , from a range of high hills westward of that city . Ascending the St ...
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... Indians . Of this family , the Pequods , inhabiting eastern Connecticut , on the shores of Long Island Sound , were the most powerful . They exercised authority over the Montauks and twelve other tribes upon Long Island . Their power ...
... Indians . Of this family , the Pequods , inhabiting eastern Connecticut , on the shores of Long Island Sound , were the most powerful . They exercised authority over the Montauks and twelve other tribes upon Long Island . Their power ...
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A History of the United States for Families and Libraries Benson John Lossing Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1860 |
A History of the United States for Families and Libraries Benson John Lossing Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1860 |
A History of the United States: For Families and Libraries Benson John Lossing Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1857 |
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Էջ 600 - ... defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State where...
Էջ 602 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Էջ 624 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Էջ 629 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice...
Էջ 627 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Էջ 626 - Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence ; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual ; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained ; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue...
Էջ 613 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually Invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Էջ 629 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican Government.
Էջ 600 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated...
Էջ 629 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...