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... soon lost by being grounded and La Salle landed his pioneers and built a fort which he called St. Louis . Disease , loss of tools , the hostil- ity of the Indians , the departure of Beaujeau with the better of the two remaining vessels ...
... soon lost by being grounded and La Salle landed his pioneers and built a fort which he called St. Louis . Disease , loss of tools , the hostil- ity of the Indians , the departure of Beaujeau with the better of the two remaining vessels ...
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... soon followed by news that Leclerc himself had succumbed to the horrible malady . Napoleon thinks of selling Louisiana . - These dis- asters , together with the growing difficulty of main- taining peace with England , were important ...
... soon followed by news that Leclerc himself had succumbed to the horrible malady . Napoleon thinks of selling Louisiana . - These dis- asters , together with the growing difficulty of main- taining peace with England , were important ...
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... soon to develop . On December 21 , 1819 , on motion of John Cocke of Tennessee , the com- mittee on military affairs was ordered to find out what the expedition had already cost the government , what sums would be required in order to ...
... soon to develop . On December 21 , 1819 , on motion of John Cocke of Tennessee , the com- mittee on military affairs was ordered to find out what the expedition had already cost the government , what sums would be required in order to ...
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... soon contracted a fever which came near proving fatal . Then , too , the Indians were a source of annoyance and danger . The guide sug- gested that they return to the Verdigris , but his chief refused to turn back . When they at last ...
... soon contracted a fever which came near proving fatal . Then , too , the Indians were a source of annoyance and danger . The guide sug- gested that they return to the Verdigris , but his chief refused to turn back . When they at last ...
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... soon began to suffer from hunger from which " Taylor and Pall ( a negro who accompanied the expedition ) Began to Com- plain , " the former growing " black In the face " and the latter " getting White With the Same Complaint and the ( y ) ...
... soon began to suffer from hunger from which " Taylor and Pall ( a negro who accompanied the expedition ) Began to Com- plain , " the former growing " black In the face " and the latter " getting White With the Same Complaint and the ( y ) ...
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Page 89 - 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 179 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 351 - Existing rights of every European nation should be respected, but it is due alike to our safety and our interests that the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as our settled policy that no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
Page 520 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 426 - California assert and maintain her independence, we shall render her all the kind offices in our power"; and "whilst the President will make no effort and use no influence to induce California to become one of the free and independent states of this Union, yet if the people should desire to unite their destiny with ours, they would be received as brethren, whenever this can be done without affording Mexico just cause of complaint.
Page 13 - Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season. I renounce Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole colony without any reservation. . . . I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly.
Page 71 - 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 States 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 iv - Oh that my words were now written ! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 185 - All territory, places and possessions whatsoever, taken by either party from the other, during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay...
Page v - Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate.