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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... present advancement in power and civiliza- tion is the object of the present work ; whether it has been accom- plished remains to be seen . Not having taken any part in the shifting and instructive drama enacted by those who have ...
... present advancement in power and civiliza- tion is the object of the present work ; whether it has been accom- plished remains to be seen . Not having taken any part in the shifting and instructive drama enacted by those who have ...
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... present limits . The sub - marine outlines of the Bay of New York , and the course of the Hudson , indicate that the adjacent shores during the early part of this age were beyond their present limits . Southward the sea line ran within ...
... present limits . The sub - marine outlines of the Bay of New York , and the course of the Hudson , indicate that the adjacent shores during the early part of this age were beyond their present limits . Southward the sea line ran within ...
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... present the most perfect type of the vegetable kingdom , was also introduced . New animal species made their appearance , attended by the extinction of all pre - existing forms . Reptiles now reached their culmination , the earth , sea ...
... present the most perfect type of the vegetable kingdom , was also introduced . New animal species made their appearance , attended by the extinction of all pre - existing forms . Reptiles now reached their culmination , the earth , sea ...
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... present day . Of the animals the Mammoth was remarkable . Unlike the elephant of the present day , they were covered with a redish wool intermingled with hair and black bristles , the latter being more than a foot in length . Vast herds ...
... present day . Of the animals the Mammoth was remarkable . Unlike the elephant of the present day , they were covered with a redish wool intermingled with hair and black bristles , the latter being more than a foot in length . Vast herds ...
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... present level . The subsidence in Connecticut was 50 feet ; in Massachusetts , 170 ; in New Hamp- shire , 200 ; at Montreal , 450 ; and several hundred in the region of Illinois and the Pacific . Previously the adjacent Atlantic ...
... present level . The subsidence in Connecticut was 50 feet ; in Massachusetts , 170 ; in New Hamp- shire , 200 ; at Montreal , 450 ; and several hundred in the region of Illinois and the Pacific . Previously the adjacent Atlantic ...
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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.