How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had by Those Desirous of Securing Them, with the Public Law on the Subject of Free Homes, and Suggestions from Practical Farmers : Together with Numerous Successful, Experiences of Others, Though Beginning with Little of Nothing, Have Recome the Owners of Ample FarmsJames Miller, (successor to C.S. Francis & Company) 522 Broadway, 1864 - 345 páginas |
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... Northern allies , 95 in number , went against it . Only two members from the Slave States voted for the bill , Mr. Blair , of Missouri , and Mr. Winter Davis of Maryland , who represented the free - labor interests of Baltimore . In ...
... Northern allies , 95 in number , went against it . Only two members from the Slave States voted for the bill , Mr. Blair , of Missouri , and Mr. Winter Davis of Maryland , who represented the free - labor interests of Baltimore . In ...
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... Northern and Western country to be the scene of battle , with desolation everywhere , and safety nowhere . The same dishonest agencies have been employed in leading them to believe that for- eigners were conscripted at the moment of ...
... Northern and Western country to be the scene of battle , with desolation everywhere , and safety nowhere . The same dishonest agencies have been employed in leading them to believe that for- eigners were conscripted at the moment of ...
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... Northern allies , with all the zeal and desperation with which they resisted abolitionism itself . Its final success is among the blessed compensations of the bloody conflict in which we are plunged . This policy takes for granted the ...
... Northern allies , with all the zeal and desperation with which they resisted abolitionism itself . Its final success is among the blessed compensations of the bloody conflict in which we are plunged . This policy takes for granted the ...
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... northern and western population has saved it from overthrow . If , with this great preponderance of numbers , we have found it so difficult to overcome rebellion , it will be at once perceived , that , if our population had been no ...
... northern and western population has saved it from overthrow . If , with this great preponderance of numbers , we have found it so difficult to overcome rebellion , it will be at once perceived , that , if our population had been no ...
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... Northern emigration is coming in to enlighten and control the remaining heresies which , for a generation at least , must linger among those who were born and educated to believe in them . About eighteen months ago , an association of ...
... Northern emigration is coming in to enlighten and control the remaining heresies which , for a generation at least , must linger among those who were born and educated to believe in them . About eighteen months ago , an association of ...
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Página 324 - In traversing that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers, fox-tail and broomsedge ; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages, and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy nomes for a dozen white...
Página 18 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Página 19 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry — or if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death...
Página 21 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
Página 18 - ... person may have filed a pre-emption claim, or which may at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents...
Página 19 - ... will bear true allegiance to the Government of the United States; then, in such case, he, she, or they, if at that time citizens of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided by law.
Página 172 - The first thing that drew his attention was a heap of coals shot out of carts on the pavement before a house. He offered himself to shovel or wheel them into the place where they were to be laid, and was employed.
Página 20 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Página 18 - ... at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed...