A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873: Embracing the Physical Features of the Country; Its Early Explorations; Aboriginal Inhabitants; French and British Occupation; Conquest by Virginia; Territorial Condition, and the Subsequent Civil, Military and Political Events of the StateIllinois journal Company, 1877 - 944 páginas |
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... amount of matter has been inserted never before published in connection with the history of the State ; yet important facts , though familiar , have always been preferred to new ones of minor significance . The main consideration ...
... amount of matter has been inserted never before published in connection with the history of the State ; yet important facts , though familiar , have always been preferred to new ones of minor significance . The main consideration ...
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... amount of lava ejected at a single eruption from one of the volcanoes of Iceland , has been estimated at 40,000,000,000 tons , a quantity suffi- cient to cover a large city with a mountain as high as the tallest Alps . By the process of ...
... amount of lava ejected at a single eruption from one of the volcanoes of Iceland , has been estimated at 40,000,000,000 tons , a quantity suffi- cient to cover a large city with a mountain as high as the tallest Alps . By the process of ...
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... amount produced is correspondingly large . So great is the fertility , that years of continued cultivation do not materially diminish the yield , and should sterility be induced by excessive working , the subsoil can be made available ...
... amount produced is correspondingly large . So great is the fertility , that years of continued cultivation do not materially diminish the yield , and should sterility be induced by excessive working , the subsoil can be made available ...
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... amount precipitated is less , and finally it is almost entirely supplanted by the aridity of the desert . In a section extending across the continent from New York to San Francisco , the amount of rain - fall strikingly coincides with ...
... amount precipitated is less , and finally it is almost entirely supplanted by the aridity of the desert . In a section extending across the continent from New York to San Francisco , the amount of rain - fall strikingly coincides with ...
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... amount of nutriment , with a given amount of labor , than any * See Geographical Surveys of the State , and Foster's Physical Geography of the Missis sippi Valley . tFoster's Physical Geography . known cereal . It was originally a ...
... amount of nutriment , with a given amount of labor , than any * See Geographical Surveys of the State , and Foster's Physical Geography of the Missis sippi Valley . tFoster's Physical Geography . known cereal . It was originally a ...
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Página 729 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Página 707 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 241 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Página 323 - Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them, and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties.
Página 344 - ... well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour affection or hope of reward:" provided also that no state shall be deprived of territory for the- benefit of the united states.
Página 729 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 729 - I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.
Página 210 - ... 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...
Página 493 - Smith, jun., the translator of this work, has shown unto us the plates of which hath been spoken, which have the appearance of gold; and as many of the leaves as the said Smith has translated, we did handle with our hands, and we also saw the engravings thereon, all of which has the appearance of ancient work, and of curious workmanship.
Página 295 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it - expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.