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... common with your parents and friends . If this Republic must be destroyed , it will be effected by destroying the liberty of speech and of the press , on some par- ticular subject , at first ; but extending its encroachments , ALL ...
... common with your parents and friends . If this Republic must be destroyed , it will be effected by destroying the liberty of speech and of the press , on some par- ticular subject , at first ; but extending its encroachments , ALL ...
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... common readers . My Geological survey cost me much time and money , unaid- ed by any government patronage . Whether I shall pro- ceed to fill up my original plan , and continue the work , in a second volume , must be , as it is , left ...
... common readers . My Geological survey cost me much time and money , unaid- ed by any government patronage . Whether I shall pro- ceed to fill up my original plan , and continue the work , in a second volume , must be , as it is , left ...
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... Common School system of Education 253 School Report CIVIL HISTORY Canals · - 255 Preparatory Measures leading to · 263 the Ohio Canals DeWitt Clinton's Visit to Ohio 266 · 274 - 275 The Miami and Maumee Canal 277 Cincinnati and White ...
... Common School system of Education 253 School Report CIVIL HISTORY Canals · - 255 Preparatory Measures leading to · 263 the Ohio Canals DeWitt Clinton's Visit to Ohio 266 · 274 - 275 The Miami and Maumee Canal 277 Cincinnati and White ...
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... common surface of the lake . Running all along the present southern shore and generally about two miles and a half south of it , is another elevation of about seventy feet . We have said generally , because there are exceptions , as to ...
... common surface of the lake . Running all along the present southern shore and generally about two miles and a half south of it , is another elevation of about seventy feet . We have said generally , because there are exceptions , as to ...
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... common slacked lime , it soon afterwards assumes a dark appearance , and becomes , finally , a deep brown . By mixing it with common slacked lime , in the proportions of twenty eight parts of lime , to one hundred parts of the lias , it ...
... common slacked lime , it soon afterwards assumes a dark appearance , and becomes , finally , a deep brown . By mixing it with common slacked lime , in the proportions of twenty eight parts of lime , to one hundred parts of the lias , it ...
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Page 370 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said territory and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ART.
Page 372 - 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 371 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 365 - That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descend to and be distributed among their children, and the descendants of a deceas'ed child, in equal parts ; the descendants of a deceased child or grand-child to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree ; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased...
Page 368 - The representatives thus elected shall serve for the term of two years; and in case of the death of a representative, or removal from office, the Governor shall issue a writ to the county or township, for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead, to serve for the residue of the term.
Page 372 - Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles, and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ARTICLE VI. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes,...
Page 116 - Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 369 - ... congress shall appoint, and commission to serve as aforesaid; and whenever a vacancy shall happen in the council, by death or removal from office, the house of representatives shall nominate two persons, qualified as aforesaid, for each vacancy, and return their names to...
Page 367 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be adopted or made, shall have force in all parts of the district, and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor, shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed from time to time, as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject, however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the Legislature.
Page 372 - ... the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.