Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events, which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and FiftyJ.R. Albach, 1850 - 808 pagina's |
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Pagina 28
... body was sunk in the stream of the Mississippi . Deprived of their energetic , though ruthless , leader , the Span- iards determined to try to reach Mexico by land . They turned West again therefore , and penetrated to the Red river ...
... body was sunk in the stream of the Mississippi . Deprived of their energetic , though ruthless , leader , the Span- iards determined to try to reach Mexico by land . They turned West again therefore , and penetrated to the Red river ...
Pagina 40
... body , meanwhile , had suffered greatly from the jeal- ousy of the neighboring Indians , and the attacks of bands of Iroquois , who wandered all the way from their homes in New York , to annoy the less warlike savages of the prairies ...
... body , meanwhile , had suffered greatly from the jeal- ousy of the neighboring Indians , and the attacks of bands of Iroquois , who wandered all the way from their homes in New York , to annoy the less warlike savages of the prairies ...
Pagina 52
... body , which made him surmount all difficulties , would have procured a glorious issue to his under- taking , had not all those excellent qualities been counterbal- anced by too haughty a behavior , which sometimes made him ...
... body , which made him surmount all difficulties , would have procured a glorious issue to his under- taking , had not all those excellent qualities been counterbal- anced by too haughty a behavior , which sometimes made him ...
Pagina 53
... body , and take up his march for the Illinois , where he hoped to find Tonti , who should have been all this while at Fort St. Louis . This was in May , 1687 . With great labor this little band forced their heavy - laden horses over the ...
... body , and take up his march for the Illinois , where he hoped to find Tonti , who should have been all this while at Fort St. Louis . This was in May , 1687 . With great labor this little band forced their heavy - laden horses over the ...
Pagina 62
... body of French and more than a thousand northern Indians , on the day ap- pointed , was at the spot appointed ; but Bienville , who had returned as the king's lieutenant to that southern land which he had aided to explore , was not ...
... body of French and more than a thousand northern Indians , on the day ap- pointed , was at the spot appointed ; but Bienville , who had returned as the king's lieutenant to that southern land which he had aided to explore , was not ...
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Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which ... James Handasyd Perkins Volledige weergave - 1847 |
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Pagina 279 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Pagina 508 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Pagina 522 - The legislatures of those Districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the Soil by the United States in Congress Assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such Soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Pagina 314 - ... thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers shall be appointed for that purpose ; and personal property may be transferred by delivery, saving, however, to the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers of the Kaskaskies, Saint Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have heretofore professed themselves citizens of Virginia, their laws and customs now in force among them, relative to the descent and conveyance of property.
Pagina 317 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Pagina 774 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Pagina 316 - ... inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the general assembly; provided that for every five hundred free...
Pagina 770 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Pagina 770 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Pagina 113 - America, it is agreed that for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britaninc Majesty and those of his most Christian Majesty in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...