Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: Or, Life in the West. To which is Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the WestStegner & Condit, 1867 - 763 strani |
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... east of the Alleghany Mountains on the Atlantic coast , and South - east on the Gulf of Mexico . A history and description of the West , in this enlarged view , may almost be said to be a history and description of the American Union ...
... east of the Alleghany Mountains on the Atlantic coast , and South - east on the Gulf of Mexico . A history and description of the West , in this enlarged view , may almost be said to be a history and description of the American Union ...
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... east of and bordering on the Mississippi River , including , also , the States of Indiana and Mich- igan , and of the whole of our great national domain west of the Mis- sissippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean , with the exception ...
... east of and bordering on the Mississippi River , including , also , the States of Indiana and Mich- igan , and of the whole of our great national domain west of the Mis- sissippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean , with the exception ...
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... east of the mountains , were jealous of the rapidly increasing power of the French in the west . Not content with exciting the savages to hostilities against them , they stimulated private enterprise by granting six hundred thou- sand ...
... east of the mountains , were jealous of the rapidly increasing power of the French in the west . Not content with exciting the savages to hostilities against them , they stimulated private enterprise by granting six hundred thou- sand ...
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... East Tennessee , having been beseiged by the Indians , the garri- son capitulated on the 7th of August , and on the day afterwards , while on the route to Fort George , were attacked and the greater part massa- cred . In the summer of ...
... East Tennessee , having been beseiged by the Indians , the garri- son capitulated on the 7th of August , and on the day afterwards , while on the route to Fort George , were attacked and the greater part massa- cred . In the summer of ...
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... east and west of the Monongahela River . At this period Fort Pitt was a frontier post , around which had sprung up the village of Pittsburg , which was not regularly laid out into a town until 1784. The settlement on the Monongahela at ...
... east and west of the Monongahela River . At this period Fort Pitt was a frontier post , around which had sprung up the village of Pittsburg , which was not regularly laid out into a town until 1784. The settlement on the Monongahela at ...
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Stran 742 - The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Stran 746 - In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.]* The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Stran 749 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Stran 754 - States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability, SEC.
Stran 453 - ... from the lakes to the gulf, and from the Atlantic to the far interior.
Stran 748 - ... claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
Stran 43 - no colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has first commenced at the Muskingum. Information, property, and strength will be its characteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community.
Stran 750 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. VIRGINIA — John Blair, James Madison, Jr. NORTH CAROLINA — William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. SOUTH CAROLINA — John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. GEORGIA — William Few, Abraham Baldwin. Attest: William Jackson, Secretary. AMENDMENTS...
Stran 395 - ... distended with air, and with pasted seams. Although the day was very calm, there was a considerable swell on the lake; and there were white patches of foam on the surface, which were slowly moving to the southward, indicating the set of a current in that direction, and recalling the recollection of the whirlpool stories. The water continued to deepen as we advanced; the lake becoming almost transparently clear, of an extremely beautiful...
Stran 521 - Courts. Municipal Courts are also established in Detroit and other cities. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices, with a Reporter.