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... Joseph Charles . 1811 . DECEMBER 16. - The whole valley of the Mississippi shaken by an earth- quake , and the town of New Madrid , Mo. , destroyed . -The first steamboat on the Western rivers built by Mr. Roosevelt , of New York , at ...
... Joseph Charles . 1811 . DECEMBER 16. - The whole valley of the Mississippi shaken by an earth- quake , and the town of New Madrid , Mo. , destroyed . -The first steamboat on the Western rivers built by Mr. Roosevelt , of New York , at ...
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... Joseph Meeker . The Ottawa ( Franklin county ) Republican of May 20 , 1875 , says : " The press in question was brought to Franklin county in 1834 , when this country was all in Indian reservations , and was set up at the Baptist ...
... Joseph Meeker . The Ottawa ( Franklin county ) Republican of May 20 , 1875 , says : " The press in question was brought to Franklin county in 1834 , when this country was all in Indian reservations , and was set up at the Baptist ...
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... Joseph Speer , of Medina , Ohio ; and another has followed since , from Penn- sylvania ; but we know the Speers are the pioneer editors to Lawrence City . " FEBRUARY 1. — The Kansas Free - State Society formed at Lawrence : R. G. ...
... Joseph Speer , of Medina , Ohio ; and another has followed since , from Penn- sylvania ; but we know the Speers are the pioneer editors to Lawrence City . " FEBRUARY 1. — The Kansas Free - State Society formed at Lawrence : R. G. ...
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... Joseph C. Anderson .. 315 Jno . Hamilton ..... S. A. Williams 313 315 William Margraves 377 John Serpell .......... Adam Pore S. H. Houser .... William Jennings ... ...... 12 12 12 41 4 23 25 49 35 35 16 9 9 9 aaaa ...... 375 375 377 ...
... Joseph C. Anderson .. 315 Jno . Hamilton ..... S. A. Williams 313 315 William Margraves 377 John Serpell .......... Adam Pore S. H. Houser .... William Jennings ... ...... 12 12 12 41 4 23 25 49 35 35 16 9 9 9 aaaa ...... 375 375 377 ...
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... Joseph L. Speer , Vice Presidents ; R. G. Elliott and Chas . A. Foster , Secretaries . Resolutions were adopted in favor of making Kansas a Free State , and against the illegal voting by citizens of Missouri . Also , the following ...
... Joseph L. Speer , Vice Presidents ; R. G. Elliott and Chas . A. Foster , Secretaries . Resolutions were adopted in favor of making Kansas a Free State , and against the illegal voting by citizens of Missouri . Also , the following ...
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1863 Second Lieut Adjutant Allen Anderson appointed April Atchison August Bourbon Bourbon county Brown Charles Cherokee Clerk Coffey Colonel Committee COMPANY Congress Constitution Convention Council Grove Court Crawford Creek Date of Muster Davis DECEMBER delegates District Doniphan Doniphan county Douglas Douglas county elected Emporia Farmer FEBRUARY Fort Leavenworth Fort Scott Franklin Free-State George George W Governor House Indian James JANUARY Jefferson John Johnson July July 15 Junction City June Kansas Kansas river lands Lawrence Lawyer Leavenworth Leavenworth county Lecompton Legislature Linn Linn county Lyon March Marshall Miami Missouri Name and Rank Nemaha Neosho NOVEMBER OCTOBER Ohio Olathe Osage Osawatomie Oskaloosa Ottawa Pottawatomie President Promoted Captain Promoted First Lieutenant Railroad regiment Republican Resigned Riley river Robinson Samuel Scott Secretary Senate Sept September Shawnee Smith Territory Thomas Topeka United vote Wabaunsee William Wilson Woodson Wyandotte
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Page 425 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 117 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 32 - That the Constitution and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 35 - That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians...
Page 238 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done.
Page 176 - Ohio ; and all prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by the authority of the state of Ohio ; and all indictments shall conclude against the peace and dignity of the same.
Page 320 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 75 - Legislature), unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury, and in any trial in any court whatever the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in person and with counsel as in civil actions.
Page 21 - ... 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 185 - I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...