Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of WisconsinState Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1912 |
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Stran 13 - But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Stran 65 - that the provisions of the Constitution are ample for the preservation of the Union, and the protection of all the material interests of the country; that it needs to be obeyed rather than amended...
Stran 107 - During the past week our wharf has exhibited a greater show of business than we recollect ever to have seen, and the number of steam and other boats arriving and departing has been unprecedented. The immense trade which has opened between this place and Fever River, Illinois, at the present time, employs, besides a number of keel-boats, six steamboats, to-wit: the "Indiana," "Shamrock," "Hamilton," "Muskingum,
Stran 101 - The passage boat between New York and Albany is one hundred and sixty feet long, and wide in proportion for accommodations, consisting of fiftytwo berths, besides sofas, etc., for one hundred passengers ; and the machine which moves her wheels is equal to the power of twenty-four horses, and is kept in motion by steam from a copper boiler eight or ten feet in length. Her route is a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, which she performs regularly twice a week, and sometimes in the short space...
Stran 108 - ... much later date than above cited. — See Merrick, Old Times on the Upper Mississippi, p. 274. their return trip have been deeply freighted with lead, and several keel-boats likewise have arrived laden with the same artiele. Judging from the thousands of people who have gone to make their fortunes at the lead mines this spring, we should suppose that the quantity of lead produced this year would be ten-fold greater than heretofore. The next upper river steamboat was the "Virginia," Captain Crawford,...
Stran 90 - In all the territories, population was increasing, state institutions were opening and expanding, universities were taking up their new public lands,47 but territorial politics was a fatal defect in the Democratic mind. In vain the Democratic citizens of the applicant territories belabored their party friends in Congress. So long as that party had a chance to maintain or increase its power, so long as new states would endanger that chance, statehood ambitions failed of realization. Rarely did the...
Stran 82 - J« and the bill failed to get through the senate. Dakota maintained a running fight for statehood from 1882 to 1889. Despite the failure of her bill in Congress both houses of her legislature of 1883 passed an act for holding a constitutional convention, and though this act did not receive the approval of Governor Ordway an unofficial convention based upon it met at Huron in June to memorialize Congress for the division of the territory and the admission of the southern half.
Stran 80 - It is the same everywhere from the Mississippi to the Pacific. Men seem to live in the future rather than in the present: not that they fail to work while it is called to-day, but that they see the country not merely as it is, but as it will be, twenty, fifty, a hundred years hence, when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees.
Stran 94 - Living men, not very old yet, have seen the Indian on the war-path, the buffalo stopping the train, the cowboy driving his cattle, the herder watching his sheep, the government irrigation dam, and the automobile — have seen every one oi these. slides which progress puts for a moment into its magiclantern and removes to replace with a new one.
Stran 103 - Shreve 8 to improve upon both the Fulton and the French patents, which had governed the equipment of the nine boats heretofore built at the Pittsburgh yards. Instead of placing the boilers and machinery in the hold, Captain Shreve decked the hold over and placed his machinery on what has since been known as the main deck. Heretofore the cylinders of all boats had been of the vertical and oscillating pattern. Captain Shreve laid his cylinders down upon solid bed-timbers, and transferred the vibration...