American Historical Documents: 1000-1904P. F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 491 páginas Including: Voyages to Vinland; Letter of Columbus announcing his discovery; Amerigo Vespucci's account; John Cabot's discovery of North America; First Charter of Virginia; Mayflower Compact; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; 1783 treaty with Great Britain; 1083 treaty with France (Lousiana Purchase); 1850 Fugitive Slave act; 1865 Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox; 1867 treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase); 1904 convention btw. the US and Panama; and others. |
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... further [ than you ] , and yet I have something of novelty to relate . I have found vines and grapes . " " Is this indeed true , foster - father ? " said Leif . " Of a certainty it is true , " quoth he , " for I was 10 AMERICAN ...
... further [ than you ] , and yet I have something of novelty to relate . I have found vines and grapes . " " Is this indeed true , foster - father ? " said Leif . " Of a certainty it is true , " quoth he , " for I was 10 AMERICAN ...
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... further visit they die , and that is their sepulture : and they have many other customs which for prolixity are not related . They use in their sick- nesses various forms of medicines , " so different from ours that we marvelled how any ...
... further visit they die , and that is their sepulture : and they have many other customs which for prolixity are not related . They use in their sick- nesses various forms of medicines , " so different from ours that we marvelled how any ...
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... further in this chapter : as in the course of the letter we shall come to many other things which are particular : let this suffice for the general . At this beginning , we saw nothing in the land of much profit , except some show of ...
... further in this chapter : as in the course of the letter we shall come to many other things which are particular : let this suffice for the general . At this beginning , we saw nothing in the land of much profit , except some show of ...
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... further onwards : we proceeded continuously skirting the coast , ( until ) we had sight of another tribe distant perhaps some 80 leagues from the former tribe : and we found them very different in speech and customs : we resolved to ...
... further onwards : we proceeded continuously skirting the coast , ( until ) we had sight of another tribe distant perhaps some 80 leagues from the former tribe : and we found them very different in speech and customs : we resolved to ...
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... further inland , making display of doing us the greatest honour : wherefore we decided to go : and it would be impos- sible to tell you how much honour they did us : and we went to several villages , so that we were nine days journeying ...
... further inland , making display of doing us the greatest honour : wherefore we decided to go : and it would be impos- sible to tell you how much honour they did us : and we went to several villages , so that we were nine days journeying ...
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Página 343 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 198 - Person. (2) The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. (3) No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (4) No Capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Página 277 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Página 468 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 451 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 296 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Página 196 - States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States: 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5.
Página 204 - Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of...
Página 269 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Página 226 - But this question is not left to mere reason; the people have in express terms decided it by saying, "this Constitution and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land...