Three Years in North America, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1833 - 544 páginas |
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... March 1830 . From Washington to Richmond and Raleigh - Canova's Statue of Washington From Raleigh by Fayetteville and Georgetown to Charleston - Rice - Cotton - Evergreen Oak , 35 100 CHAPTER V. March 1830 . Charleston - Details - Slavery.
... March 1830 . From Washington to Richmond and Raleigh - Canova's Statue of Washington From Raleigh by Fayetteville and Georgetown to Charleston - Rice - Cotton - Evergreen Oak , 35 100 CHAPTER V. March 1830 . Charleston - Details - Slavery.
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... March 1830 . 151 From the Creek Territory , through the State of Alabama , to Mo- bile and New Orleans , CHAPTER VIII . March and April 1830 . New Orleans - Details - Slavery - Battle of New Orleans - Booty and Beauty , the Watchword of ...
... March 1830 . 151 From the Creek Territory , through the State of Alabama , to Mo- bile and New Orleans , CHAPTER VIII . March and April 1830 . New Orleans - Details - Slavery - Battle of New Orleans - Booty and Beauty , the Watchword of ...
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... march , —that officers of justice shall not seize the suspected , or guard the con- victed ? They seem to forget that government is as ne- cessary on Sunday as on any other day of the week . It is the government , ever active in its ...
... march , —that officers of justice shall not seize the suspected , or guard the con- victed ? They seem to forget that government is as ne- cessary on Sunday as on any other day of the week . It is the government , ever active in its ...
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... march of intellect , and the progress of improvement . The mail is the chief means by which intellectual light irradiates to the extremes of the republic . Stop it one day in seven , and you retard one - seventh the improve- ment of our ...
... march of intellect , and the progress of improvement . The mail is the chief means by which intellectual light irradiates to the extremes of the republic . Stop it one day in seven , and you retard one - seventh the improve- ment of our ...
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... March 1830 . THE ice on the rivers having put an end to all tra- velling by steam - boats in this neighbourhood , I was obliged to make the first part of my journey to the south by land to Richmond , the seat of legislature for Virginia ...
... March 1830 . THE ice on the rivers having put an end to all tra- velling by steam - boats in this neighbourhood , I was obliged to make the first part of my journey to the south by land to Richmond , the seat of legislature for Virginia ...
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Página 219 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 266 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
Página 219 - From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God'; And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp?
Página 145 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 63 - It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The free of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.
Página 63 - Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of [the] noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The...
Página 263 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Página 218 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Página 67 - ... of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree. The one is the first step, the other the last in the career of intolerance. The magnanimous sufferer under this cruel scourge in foreign Regions, must view the Bill as a Beacon on our Coast, warning him to seek some other haven, where liberty and philanthropy in their due extent, may offer a more certain repose from his Troubles.
Página 177 - Under that system, the Indians residing within the United States, are so far independent, that they live under their own customs, and not under the laws of the United States; that their rights upon the lands where they inhabit or hunt, are secured to them by boundaries defined in amicable treaties between the United States and themselves; and that whenever those boundaries are varied, it is also by amicable and voluntary...