Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago, Teil 6R. Blanchard & Company, 1881 - 768 Seiten |
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... land and wait till daylight before commencing the fight . In ac- cordance with this truce , each band chose their positions like duelists on a field of honor . Champlain opened the battle by piercing two Iroquois chiefs through the body ...
... land and wait till daylight before commencing the fight . In ac- cordance with this truce , each band chose their positions like duelists on a field of honor . Champlain opened the battle by piercing two Iroquois chiefs through the body ...
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... land , as the two bark canoes were borne along as if propelled by the forces of nature , till suddenly they found themselves in the breakers of the Missouri river , whose eddies whirled their light water craft like chaff in a miniature ...
... land , as the two bark canoes were borne along as if propelled by the forces of nature , till suddenly they found themselves in the breakers of the Missouri river , whose eddies whirled their light water craft like chaff in a miniature ...
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... land , and I do not wish to see you at war with the Miamis . " + The spring floods , which broke up the ice on the 29th of March , were so high as to cover the ground where his cabin stood , and make the wretched hnt untenable . They ...
... land , and I do not wish to see you at war with the Miamis . " + The spring floods , which broke up the ice on the 29th of March , were so high as to cover the ground where his cabin stood , and make the wretched hnt untenable . They ...
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... land , is a very difficult one ; we did not travel far on it , last fall , before we got into the woods . " Nov. 1. Having said holy mass , we halted at night at a river , from which a fine road leads to the Pottawatamies ...
... land , is a very difficult one ; we did not travel far on it , last fall , before we got into the woods . " Nov. 1. Having said holy mass , we halted at night at a river , from which a fine road leads to the Pottawatamies ...
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... land being full of streams , small lakes and marshes . They are very badly cabined and eat or fast according to the spot where they happen to be . Having been detained by the wind , we remarked that there were large sand- banks off the ...
... land being full of streams , small lakes and marshes . They are very badly cabined and eat or fast according to the spot where they happen to be . Having been detained by the wind , we remarked that there were large sand- banks off the ...
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Seite 148 - I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 671 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Seite 671 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Seite 318 - ... provided however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three states, shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan...
Seite 174 - States ; that each State which shall be so formed shall contain a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit...
Seite 105 - Englishman, your king has never sent us any presents, nor entered into any treaty with us, wherefore he and we are still at war ; and, until he does these things, we must consider that we have no other father, nor friend, among the white men, than the King of France...
Seite 674 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world for all future time.
Seite 105 - Englishman, our father, the king of France, employed our young men to make war upon your nation. In this warfare, many of them have been killed; and it is our custom to retaliate, until such time as the spirits of the slain are satisfied.
Seite 95 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Seite 655 - All persons shall be bailable, unless for capital offences where the proof shall be evident, or the presumption great. All fines shall be moderate ; and no cruel or unusual punishment shall be inflicted. No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land...