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... chief features of it are the following paintings in oil : Joseph M. Bailey , Jr. , the last territorial treasurer , by Francis Littlefield . Presented by Hon . C. O. Bailey , Sioux Falls . Granville G. Bennett , sometime delegate in ...
... chief features of it are the following paintings in oil : Joseph M. Bailey , Jr. , the last territorial treasurer , by Francis Littlefield . Presented by Hon . C. O. Bailey , Sioux Falls . Granville G. Bennett , sometime delegate in ...
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... chief jus- tice , Judges , Jefferson P. Kidder and John W. Boyles ; U. S. Marshal Laban H. Litchfield , U. S. Attorney W. E. Gleason and Gov. Newton Edmunds . The gallery also contains about one hundred additional framed pictures , of ...
... chief jus- tice , Judges , Jefferson P. Kidder and John W. Boyles ; U. S. Marshal Laban H. Litchfield , U. S. Attorney W. E. Gleason and Gov. Newton Edmunds . The gallery also contains about one hundred additional framed pictures , of ...
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... was made there , where he found " only the chief of the Gamanestigouya , " ( Kamistiguoia , from which the post of that name is designated ) , and a few of his people , -the balance having 150 SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
... was made there , where he found " only the chief of the Gamanestigouya , " ( Kamistiguoia , from which the post of that name is designated ) , and a few of his people , -the balance having 150 SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
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... chief's excuse that " parties have been raised against our will , " and that one La Plante ( " the Canard " ) had spurred them on " with fine presents : " and to his protestations of attachment to " our father " Beauharnois , Verendrye ...
... chief's excuse that " parties have been raised against our will , " and that one La Plante ( " the Canard " ) had spurred them on " with fine presents : " and to his protestations of attachment to " our father " Beauharnois , Verendrye ...
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... chief of the Monsony , " on the 31st , " ( of August ) , he sent him a notification . " Wish- ing to speak to all the chiefs together , I deferred speaking to them til the 3rd of September , when I collected all the head men in my room ...
... chief of the Monsony , " on the 31st , " ( of August ) , he sent him a notification . " Wish- ing to speak to all the chiefs together , I deferred speaking to them til the 3rd of September , when I collected all the head men in my room ...
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Page 505 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate JOKES.
Page 70 - 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 537 - Twere vain the ocean-depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole : 2 The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 72 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 53 - Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea, West and Northwest...
Page 133 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Page 505 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 73 - They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already consider the colony as entirely lost; and it appears to me that in the hands of this growing power it will be more useful to the policy, and even to the commerce, of France, than if I should attempt to keep it.
Page 505 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 70 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...