A Universal History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole Period, from the Earliest Discoveries, Down to the Present Time. Giving a Description of the Western Country ... |
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... killing him on the spot . They conducted him in triumph through several towns to the palace of Powhatan , the most potent king in the country . There he was doomed to be put to death by laying his head upon a log , and beating his ...
... killing him on the spot . They conducted him in triumph through several towns to the palace of Powhatan , the most potent king in the country . There he was doomed to be put to death by laying his head upon a log , and beating his ...
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... killed , the survivors fed on those of their companions who had sunk under such accumulated calamities . This period was long remem- bered by the name of the Starving Time . In six months the colony was reduced to 60 persons , who were ...
... killed , the survivors fed on those of their companions who had sunk under such accumulated calamities . This period was long remem- bered by the name of the Starving Time . In six months the colony was reduced to 60 persons , who were ...
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... killed one or two Indians , and re- turned to Boston . This measure , instead of allaying , seemed to increase their hostility ; several persons were taken near Saybrook fort , and tortured with savage barbarity . About the be- ginning ...
... killed one or two Indians , and re- turned to Boston . This measure , instead of allaying , seemed to increase their hostility ; several persons were taken near Saybrook fort , and tortured with savage barbarity . About the be- ginning ...
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... kill- ed six men and three women ; two maids were taken cap- tive , twenty cows killed , and other damages done to the inhabitants . The court holden at Hartford , May 1st , 1637 , resolved to prosecute the war with the Pequots ; that ...
... kill- ed six men and three women ; two maids were taken cap- tive , twenty cows killed , and other damages done to the inhabitants . The court holden at Hartford , May 1st , 1637 , resolved to prosecute the war with the Pequots ; that ...
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... killed seven , and took one prisoner . The prisoner had been a perfidious villian . He had lived in the fort some time before , and could speak Eng- lish well . But after the Pequots commenced hostilities against the English , he became ...
... killed seven , and took one prisoner . The prisoner had been a perfidious villian . He had lived in the fort some time before , and could speak Eng- lish well . But after the Pequots commenced hostilities against the English , he became ...
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Page 398 - We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 251 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 29 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 251 - ... freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 398 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America...
Page 236 - WELCOME, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore ; Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at THEE the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for THEE triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers.
Page 251 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Page 31 - Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings ? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Page 168 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Page 30 - The eternal God is thy refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms : And he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; And shall say, Destroy them.