Three Years in North America, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1833 - 544 páginas |
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... western base . " To stop the mails one day in seven would be to thrust the whole western country , and other distant parts of this republic , one day's journey from the seat of government . But were it expedient to put an end to the ...
... western base . " To stop the mails one day in seven would be to thrust the whole western country , and other distant parts of this republic , one day's journey from the seat of government . But were it expedient to put an end to the ...
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... western side of the Alleghany ridge , on the other . This prodigious work , which is now in progress , is estimated by General Barnard , at about twenty - two millions of dollars . The sum of fifteen hundred thousand dollars subscribed ...
... western side of the Alleghany ridge , on the other . This prodigious work , which is now in progress , is estimated by General Barnard , at about twenty - two millions of dollars . The sum of fifteen hundred thousand dollars subscribed ...
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... western country of America beyond the Alleghany ridge , with the north - eastern section of the American continent . The waiters at the hotel at Washington are men of colour ; many , or all of them , slaves . Maryland , and all the ...
... western country of America beyond the Alleghany ridge , with the north - eastern section of the American continent . The waiters at the hotel at Washington are men of colour ; many , or all of them , slaves . Maryland , and all the ...
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... western states . We were ferried over the Roanoke river in a flat , drawing not six inches of water , by slaves , without the horses being taken out of the stages , and afterwards stopped at Halifax to change horses . While I was ...
... western states . We were ferried over the Roanoke river in a flat , drawing not six inches of water , by slaves , without the horses being taken out of the stages , and afterwards stopped at Halifax to change horses . While I was ...
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James Stuart. CHARLESTON . 151 CHAPTER VI . From Charleston to the Western side of the Creek Territory - Steam- boat to Savannah and Augusta - Details of " John David Monguin " Steam - Boat - Intricacy of Passage - Situation of Savannah ...
James Stuart. CHARLESTON . 151 CHAPTER VI . From Charleston to the Western side of the Creek Territory - Steam- boat to Savannah and Augusta - Details of " John David Monguin " Steam - Boat - Intricacy of Passage - Situation of Savannah ...
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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...