The St. Clair Papers: The Life and Public Services of Arthur St. Clair : Soldier of the Revolutionary War, President of the Continental Congress; and Governor of the North-western Territory : with His Correspondence and Other PapersR. Clarke & Company, 1882 - 652 páginas |
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American appointed army arrived ARTHUR ST artillery Assembly attack British Burgoyne Butler camp Captain Clair Clair Papers Colonel command committee Congress Conolly Council Court Creek Delaware detachment enemy enemy's eral evacuation favor force Fort Edward Fort Pitt French friends garrison give GOVERNOR PENN Governor St honor hope hundred immediately inclosed Indians informed inhabitants John JOHN CONOLLY join JOSEPH SHIPPEN Judge July justice killed lake land letter LIGONIER Lord Dunmore Major Major-General ment miles militia Morristown Mount Independence necessary North-western Territory officers Ohio opinion Ordinance party peace Pennsylvania person Philadelphia Pitt Pittsburgh Point present President prisoners Province Province of Pennsylvania provisions received regiment retreat river says Schuyler sent Shawanese Sir:-The situation Skenesborough soldiers soon taken Territory thousand Ticonderoga tion town troops Virginia Washington Wayne West Westmoreland county Wilkinson William wrote York
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Página 118 - 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.
Página 117 - And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republies, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Página 117 - 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.
Página 139 - Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Página 121 - And that this regulation shall be an article of compact, and remain a fundamental principle of the constitutions between the thirteen original States, and each of the States described in the resolve.
Página 571 - ... the world, soured by penury, and what they call the ingratitude of the public, involved in debts, without one farthing of money to carry them home, after having spent the flower of their days, and many of them their patrimonies, in establishing the freedom and independence of their country, and suffered everything that human nature is capable of enduring on this side of death.
Página 144 - The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district, such laws of the original states, criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the district...
Página 591 - November next ensuing their election ; the majority of whom shall be a quorum in every case, except as to calling a convention, in which two-thirds of the whole number elected shall agree : And whose duty it shall be to...
Página 119 - Ohio sufficiently evinces, in the opinion of your committee, that the labor of slaves is not necessary to promote the growth and settlement of colonies in that region. That this labor, demonstrably the dearest of any...
Página 147 - O yes,' that a court is opened for the administration of even-handed justice, to the poor and the rich, to the guilty and the innocent, without respect of persons ; none to be punished without a trial by their peers, and then in pursuance of the laws and evidence in the case.