Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October, 1834, Svazek 2J. Murray, 1835 - Počet stran: 405 |
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... house where the business of making law - makers was going on , and here and there a group of persons assembled at the entrance . In each room , set apart for the purpose , VOL . II . B were three inspectors , and a secretary or clerk to.
... house where the business of making law - makers was going on , and here and there a group of persons assembled at the entrance . In each room , set apart for the purpose , VOL . II . B were three inspectors , and a secretary or clerk to.
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... person- ages , sitting at the city hall , as a sort of centre , to which all the returns from the various wards con- verge , and from which the decision on the contest of " the three days " ultimately emanates . We visited at least a ...
... person- ages , sitting at the city hall , as a sort of centre , to which all the returns from the various wards con- verge , and from which the decision on the contest of " the three days " ultimately emanates . We visited at least a ...
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... person was elected annually for twenty years in succession to the office of supervisor , the most trustworthy and not the least honorable office in the district . His brother , from whom I had this fact , and who was a staunch advocate ...
... person was elected annually for twenty years in succession to the office of supervisor , the most trustworthy and not the least honorable office in the district . His brother , from whom I had this fact , and who was a staunch advocate ...
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... person , from whom I received this information , was about to insure in London his property in New York . Even with the heavy duty so injudiciously laid by our government on this necessary species of prudence , he could get insured in ...
... person , from whom I received this information , was about to insure in London his property in New York . Even with the heavy duty so injudiciously laid by our government on this necessary species of prudence , he could get insured in ...
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... persons under these circumstances . This regulation reflects little credit on the humanity of the government ; -whether the matter rest with the State or the corporation . A horse or a cow , if seized for rent , would not be suffered to ...
... persons under these circumstances . This regulation reflects little credit on the humanity of the government ; -whether the matter rest with the State or the corporation . A horse or a cow , if seized for rent , would not be suffered to ...
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Strana 185 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 126 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Strana 186 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Strana 235 - I give them their freedom; and I humbly and earnestly request of the legislature of Virginia a confirmation of the bequest of freedom to these servants, with permission to remain in this State, where their families and connections are, as an additional instance of the favor, of which I have received so many other manifestations in the course of my life, and for which I now give them my last, solemn, and dutiful...
Strana 137 - Their views upon that point have been submitted to the people of the United States ; and the counsels by which your conduct is now directed are the result of the judgment expressed by the only earthly tribunal to which the late administration was amenable for its acts.
Strana 280 - EXTREMUM hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem. pauca meo Gallo, sed quae legat ipsa Lycoris, carmina sunt dicenda : neget quis carmina Gallo ? sic tibi, cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos, Doris amara suam non intermisceat undam, incipe ; sollicitos Galli dicamus amores, dum tenera attondent simae virgulta capellae.
Strana 80 - Whereas the enemies of the United States have endeavored, by every artifice in their power, to possess the Indians in general with an opinion, that it is the design of the States aforesaid, to extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country: to obviate such false...
Strana 185 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 76 - Many of the tribes have already made great progress in the arts of civilized life. This desirable result has been brought about by the humane and persevering policy of the Government, and particularly by means of the appropriation for the civilization of the Indians. There have been established under the provisions of this act...
Strana iii - ... government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be signal, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion. As far as experience may show errors in our establishments, we are bound to correct them; and if any practices exist...