Sketch of the Life and Public Services of General Lewis Cass: With the Pamphlet on the Right of Search, and Some of His Speeches on the Great Political Questions of the DayMarkham & Elwood, 1852 - 420 Seiten |
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... of a Presidential election , may be considered as stamping the work with a partisan character ; but such is not its tenor , or the pur- pose of its publication . TABLE OF CONTENTS . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks VIII PREFACE .
... of a Presidential election , may be considered as stamping the work with a partisan character ; but such is not its tenor , or the pur- pose of its publication . TABLE OF CONTENTS . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks VIII PREFACE .
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... character - His exposure of the frauds and inaccuracies of certain writers of In- dian History - His account of the battle of New Orleans - His travels in the East - xtract from North American Review - His addresses on several occa ...
... character - His exposure of the frauds and inaccuracies of certain writers of In- dian History - His account of the battle of New Orleans - His travels in the East - xtract from North American Review - His addresses on several occa ...
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... character of all concerned - accusers , court , accused and counsel , created great interest in the trial and attracted a large concourse of people at the Capitol to hear the proceedings . Bald- win was a man of great powers , and when ...
... character of all concerned - accusers , court , accused and counsel , created great interest in the trial and attracted a large concourse of people at the Capitol to hear the proceedings . Bald- win was a man of great powers , and when ...
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... character . " Gen. Hull , in his official dispatch to the Secretary of War , com- municating the fall of Detroit , bears testimony to the noble spirit which pervaded his officers and men . He says : " A large portion of the brave and ...
... character . " Gen. Hull , in his official dispatch to the Secretary of War , com- municating the fall of Detroit , bears testimony to the noble spirit which pervaded his officers and men . He says : " A large portion of the brave and ...
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... character- ized his revolutionary career , and made him the recipient of the well merited personal commendation of Gen. Washington , and of the approbation of his countrymen for his services at Trenton , Stoney Point , and Saratoga ...
... character- ized his revolutionary career , and made him the recipient of the well merited personal commendation of Gen. Washington , and of the approbation of his countrymen for his services at Trenton , Stoney Point , and Saratoga ...
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Seite 398 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Seite 306 - States declares that congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory and other property belonging to the United States.
Seite 398 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Seite 358 - An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory.
Seite 358 - And the Governor, legislative Council, and House of Representatives shall have authority to make laws in all Cases for the good government of the district not repugnant to the principles and articles in this ordinance established and declared.
Seite 347 - Constitution ; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences...
Seite 358 - Be it ordained, by the United States in Congress assembled, that the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Seite 92 - Pennsylvania line aforesaid ; provided, always, and it is hereby fully understood and declared by this convention, that if the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan should extend so far south that a line drawn due east from it should not intersect Lake Erie...
Seite 372 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Seite 74 - By the ordinance of 1787 the governor and judges, or a majority of them, were authorized to adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as might be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district.