Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Frémont ...Derby & Jackson, 1856 - 480 strani This book examines the life of John Charles Frémont, American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. |
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American Angeles animals answer appointed arrived authority Benton bill California battalion camp Capt Captain Wilkes Carson charge Ciudad civil coast command commander-in-chief Commodore Stockton court directed dispatch duty encamped expedition exploration fact feet foot force give governor of California Governor Stockton grass head honor horses hundred immediately Indians instructions J. C. FREMONT January journey Kansas Kansas River Kearney Kearney's lake land leave letter Lieut Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Fremont longitude Los Angeles Mason ment Mexican Mexico miles military Monterey morning mules mutiny National Intelligencer night obedient servant object officer Pacific Pacific Ocean party pass position President reached received river road Rocky Mountains route Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Senate sent Shubrick Sierra Nevada snow survey Sutter's Fort territory testimony Thomas Whiting tion travelling trial troops United valley Washington Whiting whole witness
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Stran 451 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, Polygamy and Slavery.
Stran 451 - That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution...
Stran 52 - To his domestic hum, and think I hear The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn hymn Of Sabbath worshippers. The low of herds Blends with the rustling of the heavy grain Over the dark-brown furrows. All at once A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone.
Stran 54 - River. Around us the whole scene had one main striking feature, which was that of terrible convulsion. Parallel to its length, the ridge was split into chasms and fissures, between which rose the thin, lofty walls, terminated with slender minarets and columns, which is correctly represented in the view from the camp on Island Lake.
Stran 450 - This Convention of Delegates, assembled in pursuance of a call addressed to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present Administration...
Stran 54 - ... country. On one side we overlooked innumerable lakes and streams, the spring of the Colorado of the Gulf of California; and on the other was the Wind River Valley, where were the heads of the Yellowstone branch of the Missouri. Far to the north we...
Stran 454 - ... the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present administration, to the extension of slavery into free territory, in favor of admitting Kansas as a free State, of restoring the action of the Federal Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson...
Stran 52 - And hides his sweets, as in the golden age, Within the hollow oak. I listen long To his domestic hum,' and think I hear The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn hymn Of Sabbath worshippers.
Stran 84 - Carrying with us the barometer and other instruments, in the afternoon we ascended to the highest point of the island — a bare, rocky peak, eight hundred feet above the lake. Standing on the summit, we enjoyed an extended view of the lake, enclosed in a basin of rugged mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into...
Stran 101 - He came in, and, sitting down by the fire, began to tell us where he had been. He imagined he had been gone several days, and thought we were still at the camp where he had left us ; and we were pained to see that his mind was deranged. It appeared that he had been lost in...