American Historical Documents: 1000-1904Charles William Eliot P. F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 491 Seiten Including: Voyages to Vinland; Letter of Columbus announcing his discovery; Amerigo Vespucci's account; John Cabot's discovery of North America; First Charter of Virginia; Mayflower Compact; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; 1783 treaty with Great Britain; 1083 treaty with France (Lousiana Purchase); 1850 Fugitive Slave act; 1865 Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox; 1867 treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase); 1904 convention btw. the US and Panama; and others. |
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... according to that which has been reported to me concerning it , and here we will steer to the land . " They directed their course thither , and landed in the evening , below a cape upon which there was a boat , and there , upon this ...
... according to that which has been reported to me concerning it , and here we will steer to the land . " They directed their course thither , and landed in the evening , below a cape upon which there was a boat , and there , upon this ...
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... according to their kind . The nightingale and other small birds of a thousand kinds were singing in the month of November when I was there . There were palm trees of six or eight varieties , the graceful peculiarities of each one of ...
... according to their kind . The nightingale and other small birds of a thousand kinds were singing in the month of November when I was there . There were palm trees of six or eight varieties , the graceful peculiarities of each one of ...
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... according to the shewing of our instruments , 75 degrees from the isles of Canary : whereat we anchored with our ships a league and a half from land ; and we put out our boats freighted with men and arms : we made towards the land , and ...
... according to the shewing of our instruments , 75 degrees from the isles of Canary : whereat we anchored with our ships a league and a half from land ; and we put out our boats freighted with men and arms : we made towards the land , and ...
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... according to their best Discretion , and the Discretion of the Council of that Colony ; And that no other of our Subjects shall be permitted , or suffered , to plant or inhabit behind , or on the Backside of them , towards the main Land ...
... according to their best Discretion , and the Discretion of the Council of that Colony ; And that no other of our Subjects shall be permitted , or suffered , to plant or inhabit behind , or on the Backside of them , towards the main Land ...
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... according to their best Discretion , and the Discretion of the Council of that Colony ; And that none of our Subjects shall be permitted , or suffered , to plant or inhabit behind , or on the back of them , towards the main Land ...
... according to their best Discretion , and the Discretion of the Council of that Colony ; And that none of our Subjects shall be permitted , or suffered , to plant or inhabit behind , or on the back of them , towards the main Land ...
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aforesaid agreed America appointed arms army ARTICLE Articles of Confederation authority batteries battle Brattahlid brigade Britain Britannic Majesty Canal cause ceded citizens claims Colonies command Commissioners consent Constitution Council crest Culp's Hill declared Division duty election Emmetsburg enemy execution fight fire force freemen Freydis fugitive Generall Court George Popham George Somers Gettysburg Gibbon Government granted Greenland guns hath Hawaiian Islands hereby hundred inhabitants islands judge justice Karlsefni Lake land legislature Leif liberty Lord Protector manner Meade ment Mexican nations necessary oath offence officers Parliament party peace penalties persons Plantations Plenipotentiaries ports present treaty President punish Ralegh Gilbert ratifications Rebel Republic of Panama respective river rule Second Corps Senate sentence ship sovereignty Spain Taneytown territory thence therein thereof things Third Corps Thomas Gates thousand tion town troops Union United unto vessels whole wounded
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Seite 312 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Seite 183 - Person. (2) The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. (3) No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (4) No Capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Seite 157 - ... treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Seite 257 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 423 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him?
Seite 239 - THE alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension., which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism ; but this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
Seite 275 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Seite 182 - States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States: 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5.
Seite 189 - Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of...
Seite 238 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.