Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-six |
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... force invades Kentucky . Clark prepares to attack the Shawanese . Clark builds block house opposite the mouth of Licking . Marches thence to Upper Miami . - Clark defeats the Shawanese and destroys their property . - Battle of King's ...
... force invades Kentucky . Clark prepares to attack the Shawanese . Clark builds block house opposite the mouth of Licking . Marches thence to Upper Miami . - Clark defeats the Shawanese and destroys their property . - Battle of King's ...
Page 42
... force , remained to guard the ships . All of the party were massacred ; the guard was attacked - of these a few only escaped to St. Domingo . De Ayllon himself was either slain in the affray , or died afterward of his wounds and of ...
... force , remained to guard the ships . All of the party were massacred ; the guard was attacked - of these a few only escaped to St. Domingo . De Ayllon himself was either slain in the affray , or died afterward of his wounds and of ...
Page 47
... force of the current . " Here the Spaniards prepared boats , and crossed the Mississippi ; and , after wandering through the territories of various tribes , the most of whom were hostile , encamped for the winter at Utianque , on the ...
... force of the current . " Here the Spaniards prepared boats , and crossed the Mississippi ; and , after wandering through the territories of various tribes , the most of whom were hostile , encamped for the winter at Utianque , on the ...
Page 67
... force with working , and had but just as much as was absolutely necessary to live upon , he could not prevail on himself to relax his severity a little , or alter his inflexible temper , which is never seasonable , and less so in a new ...
... force with working , and had but just as much as was absolutely necessary to live upon , he could not prevail on himself to relax his severity a little , or alter his inflexible temper , which is never seasonable , and less so in a new ...
Page 88
... force to the Illinois , to establish a post , and to assume the direction of the colony . In the same year , he estab- lished a post on the Mississippi , fifteen miles above the village of Kaskaskia , which he named Fort Chartres . The ...
... force to the Illinois , to establish a post , and to assume the direction of the colony . In the same year , he estab- lished a post on the Mississippi , fifteen miles above the village of Kaskaskia , which he named Fort Chartres . The ...
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Page 416 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 472 - 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 472 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government. Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 747 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Page 413 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 408 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 468 - 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 470 - The inhabitants of the said territory, shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Page 470 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 748 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.