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... Savage's Station , where the Union troops , who had fallen back from Peach Orchard , were driven from their position with immense loss . On the 30th , the fighting was resumed at White Oak Swamp , with great vigour on both sides , and ...
... Savage's Station , where the Union troops , who had fallen back from Peach Orchard , were driven from their position with immense loss . On the 30th , the fighting was resumed at White Oak Swamp , with great vigour on both sides , and ...
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... savages into the abodes of swamp , by the mild and elevating influences of Christianity civilised man , and superseded the rude and barbarous habits of the forest and the ii INTRODUCTION . been brought to light, with incontestable ...
... savages into the abodes of swamp , by the mild and elevating influences of Christianity civilised man , and superseded the rude and barbarous habits of the forest and the ii INTRODUCTION . been brought to light, with incontestable ...
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... savage life . This nucleus , however , progressively expanded over the vast area around it . The dense forests have yielded to the axe of civilisation ; the ploughshare has upturned the beautiful and wide - spread prairies ; the mighty ...
... savage life . This nucleus , however , progressively expanded over the vast area around it . The dense forests have yielded to the axe of civilisation ; the ploughshare has upturned the beautiful and wide - spread prairies ; the mighty ...
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... savages , and many of its inhabitants ruthlessly massacred ; and the memory of the destruction of the garrison at Fort William Henry , by the Indians in 1757 , will long be preserved among the darker pages of the provincial annals . Of ...
... savages , and many of its inhabitants ruthlessly massacred ; and the memory of the destruction of the garrison at Fort William Henry , by the Indians in 1757 , will long be preserved among the darker pages of the provincial annals . Of ...
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... savages . The vast prairies , with the occasional woodlands , have been c sidered the most beautiful and cheerful scenery in the New World . ments . WISCONSIN . - The name of this state means , the " gathering of the waters . " It a ...
... savages . The vast prairies , with the occasional woodlands , have been c sidered the most beautiful and cheerful scenery in the New World . ments . WISCONSIN . - The name of this state means , the " gathering of the waters . " It a ...
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Seite 333 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting, or that hereafter may arise, between two or more States, concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any other cause whatever...
Seite 334 - Whenever the legislative or executive authority, or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another, shall present a petition to congress stating the matter in question, and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of congress to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute...
Seite 334 - ... raise the men, and clothe, arm and equip them, in a soldier-like manner, at the expense of the United States; and the officers and men so clothed, armed and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in congress assembled...
Seite 333 - ... nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.
Seite 335 - The congress of the united states shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six Months, and shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy...
Seite 334 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses ; to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted ; to build and equip a navy ; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State...
Seite 133 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 285 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 335 - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Seite 333 - ... more than three years in any term of six years ; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind...