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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... necessary to take up arms in defence of the inhabitants on the frontier . In the latter part of the year 1811 , the Indians instigated by the British officers at Malden , in Canada , to attempt to recover the lands they had ceded to the ...
... necessary to take up arms in defence of the inhabitants on the frontier . In the latter part of the year 1811 , the Indians instigated by the British officers at Malden , in Canada , to attempt to recover the lands they had ceded to the ...
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... necessary to establish the fact , that Col. Cass , then , as on every other occasion during the war , acted with the bravery and energy characteristic of the patriot and brave soldier ; yet it may not be out of place , here to record ...
... necessary to establish the fact , that Col. Cass , then , as on every other occasion during the war , acted with the bravery and energy characteristic of the patriot and brave soldier ; yet it may not be out of place , here to record ...
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... necessary . They on the same day addressed to Gov. Meigs of Ohio , a letter , of which the following is an extract : " Believe all the bearer will tell you . - Believe it , however it may as- tonish you , as much as if told you by one ...
... necessary . They on the same day addressed to Gov. Meigs of Ohio , a letter , of which the following is an extract : " Believe all the bearer will tell you . - Believe it , however it may as- tonish you , as much as if told you by one ...
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... necessary to use circum- spection in its details , and therefore these blanks were left . The word " capitulation " will fill the first , and " commanding general " the other . As no enemy was near us . and as the superiority of our ...
... necessary to use circum- spection in its details , and therefore these blanks were left . The word " capitulation " will fill the first , and " commanding general " the other . As no enemy was near us . and as the superiority of our ...
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... necessary to sheath his sword , or to lay down his musket . I was informed by General Hull , the morning after the capitulation , that the British forces consisted of 1800 regulars , and that he surren- dered to prevent the effusion of ...
... necessary to sheath his sword , or to lay down his musket . I was informed by General Hull , the morning after the capitulation , that the British forces consisted of 1800 regulars , and that he surren- dered to prevent the effusion of ...
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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.