Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, Band 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224 Seiten |
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... election shall supply the vacancy , there being lieutenant governor . до Of the Militia . The militia of New - Hampshire consists of all able bodied men , from sixteen to forty years of age , with the exception of civil officers , cler ...
... election shall supply the vacancy , there being lieutenant governor . до Of the Militia . The militia of New - Hampshire consists of all able bodied men , from sixteen to forty years of age , with the exception of civil officers , cler ...
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... election is made by the two houses of the general court . In the same manner are vacan- cies supplied . The qualifications of a senator are , a freehold estate of the value of one thousand dollars ; or personal estate to the value of ...
... election is made by the two houses of the general court . In the same manner are vacan- cies supplied . The qualifications of a senator are , a freehold estate of the value of one thousand dollars ; or personal estate to the value of ...
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... election . Of the House of Representatives Each town in the state , containing one hundred and fifty rateable polls , elects one representative , and for every two hundred and twenty - five additional polls , an additional represen ...
... election . Of the House of Representatives Each town in the state , containing one hundred and fifty rateable polls , elects one representative , and for every two hundred and twenty - five additional polls , an additional represen ...
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... Hartford , on the west bank of the Connecticut . forty miles from the sea , is a commercial , as well as agricultural town , and a seat of the govern ment , where is held the annual election of civil Elements of Useful Knowledge . 123.
... Hartford , on the west bank of the Connecticut . forty miles from the sea , is a commercial , as well as agricultural town , and a seat of the govern ment , where is held the annual election of civil Elements of Useful Knowledge . 123.
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... election of civil officers in May . The township is six miles in length , and five in breadth . It contains three congregational churches . one episcopal ; one baptist ; and a small society of quakers . In 1790 , the inhabitants were ...
... election of civil officers in May . The township is six miles in length , and five in breadth . It contains three congregational churches . one episcopal ; one baptist ; and a small society of quakers . In 1790 , the inhabitants were ...
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Seite 209 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now...
Seite 214 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole...
Seite 213 - West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort ; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation.
Seite 209 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Seite 212 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Seite 216 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Seite 213 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Seite 213 - NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the NORTH, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted.
Seite 212 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...