A Book of American ExplorersLee and Shepard, 1877 - 367 Seiten |
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... representatives to parliament in return for paying taxes . This wish was considered perfectly reasonable by many of the wisest Englishmen of that day ; and these statesmen would have gladly consented to either of these measures . But ...
... representatives to parliament in return for paying taxes . This wish was considered perfectly reasonable by many of the wisest Englishmen of that day ; and these statesmen would have gladly consented to either of these measures . But ...
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... Representatives declared that he was " first in war , first in peace , and first in the hearts of his countrymen . " This was very true ; and the phrase has become almost a proverb in speaking of Washington . No new States were admitted ...
... Representatives declared that he was " first in war , first in peace , and first in the hearts of his countrymen . " This was very true ; and the phrase has become almost a proverb in speaking of Washington . No new States were admitted ...
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... Representatives had to decide between them , as was the rule ; and , after a great many ballotings , Jefferson was chosen president , and Burr vice - president . Burr had distinguished himself as a soldier and as a statesman ; but he ...
... Representatives had to decide between them , as was the rule ; and , after a great many ballotings , Jefferson was chosen president , and Burr vice - president . Burr had distinguished himself as a soldier and as a statesman ; but he ...
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... Representatives Feb. 25 , 1845 , and the United States Senate March 1 ; and it was approved by the president on the very day it passed the Senate , three days before he went out of office . A great territory was thus added to the nation ...
... Representatives Feb. 25 , 1845 , and the United States Senate March 1 ; and it was approved by the president on the very day it passed the Senate , three days before he went out of office . A great territory was thus added to the nation ...
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... REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED . WHEN , in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume ...
... REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED . WHEN , in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume ...
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Seite 318 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Seite 303 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Seite 303 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Seite 355 - 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.
Seite 164 - Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third" — " Treason !" cried the speaker — " Treason, treason !" echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 339 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 313 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Seite 345 - Sect. 4. 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 th.e places of choosing senators.
Seite 340 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Seite 118 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!