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... LOUIS COUNTY , TO THE YEAR 223 225 234 1870 , by HON . JOHN R. CAREY ......... .. .241-278 Daniel Greyselon Du Lhut .. 241 Fond du Lac ...... 243 Treaties with the Ojibways .... 244 Counties of northeastern Minnesota ... 244 Road from ...
... LOUIS COUNTY , TO THE YEAR 223 225 234 1870 , by HON . JOHN R. CAREY ......... .. .241-278 Daniel Greyselon Du Lhut .. 241 Fond du Lac ...... 243 Treaties with the Ojibways .... 244 Counties of northeastern Minnesota ... 244 Road from ...
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... Louis river . .... Clam river and Burnett county , Wisconsin . Taylor's Falls and vicinity ... 309 310 312 313 314 Arcola , Washington county . The Nevers dam .... Log booms and rafts ... 316 316 317 Lumber manufacturing farther south ...
... Louis river . .... Clam river and Burnett county , Wisconsin . Taylor's Falls and vicinity ... 309 310 312 313 314 Arcola , Washington county . The Nevers dam .... Log booms and rafts ... 316 316 317 Lumber manufacturing farther south ...
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... Louis Provencalle ; and at Little Rapids , Jean B. Faribault . These men were identified with every move- ment of trade in that era . The trade was carried on by pack- ers , dog trains , and canoes . The earliest of these trading posts ...
... Louis Provencalle ; and at Little Rapids , Jean B. Faribault . These men were identified with every move- ment of trade in that era . The trade was carried on by pack- ers , dog trains , and canoes . The earliest of these trading posts ...
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... Louis XIV , of France ; to Charles II , of England ; and to the great chiefs and clans of Scotland , who fought at Culloden when the flag of the Stuarts went down forever . Thus began the era and the reign of the celebrated fur com ...
... Louis XIV , of France ; to Charles II , of England ; and to the great chiefs and clans of Scotland , who fought at Culloden when the flag of the Stuarts went down forever . Thus began the era and the reign of the celebrated fur com ...
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... Louis , who were represented by Henry M. Rice . In 1849 Rice retired from the trade , and the fur interests , no longer represented by a powerful company , soon ceased to maintain the ancient supremacy , and gradually melted away before ...
... Louis , who were represented by Henry M. Rice . In 1849 Rice retired from the trade , and the fur interests , no longer represented by a powerful company , soon ceased to maintain the ancient supremacy , and gradually melted away before ...
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Page 518 - Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phellpeaux. to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a "due west course to the River Mississippi...
Page 452 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Page 488 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the Mates which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably, if they can; violently, if they must.
Page 570 - ... of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre; whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 493 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 531 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 480 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 538 - June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend, or extreme, of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan.
Page 522 - 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.
Page 490 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.