Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West: Containing Accurate Descriptions of the Country and Modes of Life, in the Western States and Territories of North America ... Volume I.Hubbard and Edmands, 1834 - 263 páginas |
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Página 165
... Colonel George Rogers Clarke against Kaskaskia , in 1778. This place , as well as the posts upon the lakes , was ... Colonel Clarke , who planned the expedition , and who is spoken of by Chief Justice Marshall , as " a gentleman , whose ...
... Colonel George Rogers Clarke against Kaskaskia , in 1778. This place , as well as the posts upon the lakes , was ... Colonel Clarke , who planned the expedition , and who is spoken of by Chief Justice Marshall , as " a gentleman , whose ...
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... Colonel Clarke , that between two and three hundred men were raised without delay . With this force , he crossed the mountains to the Monongahela , and descended by water to the falls of Ohio , where he was joined by some volunteers ...
... Colonel Clarke , that between two and three hundred men were raised without delay . With this force , he crossed the mountains to the Monongahela , and descended by water to the falls of Ohio , where he was joined by some volunteers ...
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... Colonel Clarke , will present itself to the mind as a brilliant military achievement . His next exploit was bolder , more arduous , and equally successful . Kaskaskia was not strongly de- fended ; no attack by a civilized enemy , was ...
... Colonel Clarke , will present itself to the mind as a brilliant military achievement . His next exploit was bolder , more arduous , and equally successful . Kaskaskia was not strongly de- fended ; no attack by a civilized enemy , was ...
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... Clarke would be confined by the same causes to the shores of the Mississippi , where no reinforcement could reach him , and where he could attack him , with the certainty of success , upon the subsiding of the waters . Colonel Clarke ...
... Clarke would be confined by the same causes to the shores of the Mississippi , where no reinforcement could reach him , and where he could attack him , with the certainty of success , upon the subsiding of the waters . Colonel Clarke ...
Página 170
... Colonel Clarke was laboriously employed for six- teen days , in effecting the march from Kaskaskia to Vincennes ; five of which were consumed in passing the wilderness of water just described , through which he meandered in such a ...
... Colonel Clarke was laboriously employed for six- teen days , in effecting the march from Kaskaskia to Vincennes ; five of which were consumed in passing the wilderness of water just described , through which he meandered in such a ...
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Página 212 - The legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bonafide purchasers.
Página 213 - The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Página 221 - So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the General Assembly...
Página 123 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 213 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Página 222 - The General Assembly, or Legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be a quorum, and the members of the council shall be nominated and appointed in the following manner...
Página 214 - 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 223 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled, in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to congress, who shall have a seat in congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting during this temporary government.
Página 215 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with, or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Página 214 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.