An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies: In Four Volumes, Volumen1Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 páginas |
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Página 166
... Congrefs , December 6th , 1790 , and received into the Union , June 1ft , 1792 . The tract of country called Vermont , before the late war , was claimed by both New - York and New - Hampfire . When hoftilities commenced between Great ...
... Congrefs , December 6th , 1790 , and received into the Union , June 1ft , 1792 . The tract of country called Vermont , before the late war , was claimed by both New - York and New - Hampfire . When hoftilities commenced between Great ...
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... Congrefs , Nov. 8 , 1791 , defcribes the boundary line between us and the Indians , as follows : " Beginning at the mouth of the Cayahogana , which falls into the southernmost part of Lake Erie , and running up the river to the portage ...
... Congrefs , Nov. 8 , 1791 , defcribes the boundary line between us and the Indians , as follows : " Beginning at the mouth of the Cayahogana , which falls into the southernmost part of Lake Erie , and running up the river to the portage ...
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... Congrefs , in 1790 . the number of inhabitants in the United States of America , was three millions nine hundred and thirty thousand , nearly . In this number , none of the inhabitants of the territory N. W. of the ri- ver Ohio , are ...
... Congrefs , in 1790 . the number of inhabitants in the United States of America , was three millions nine hundred and thirty thousand , nearly . In this number , none of the inhabitants of the territory N. W. of the ri- ver Ohio , are ...
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... Congrefs affembled , made a folemn declaration , in which they affigned their reafons for withdrawing their allegiance from the King of Great Britain . Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of their intentions ...
... Congrefs affembled , made a folemn declaration , in which they affigned their reafons for withdrawing their allegiance from the King of Great Britain . Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of their intentions ...
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... Congrefs the first Monday in November of every year ; with a power referved to each State to recall its delegates ... Congrefs , cach State was to have one vote . Every State was bound to abide by the determinations of Congrefs in all ...
... Congrefs the first Monday in November of every year ; with a power referved to each State to recall its delegates ... Congrefs , cach State was to have one vote . Every State was bound to abide by the determinations of Congrefs in all ...
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Página 130 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 130 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 133 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Página 130 - Logan ; not even sparing my women and children. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance.
Página 168 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Página 201 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another...
Página 204 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Página 131 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
Página 201 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Página 168 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.