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... present a fairly consecutive and connected history of the evolution of the American Nation and people . Not all phases of this evolution have been included , as it is believed that the true place of a source book is primarily to empha ...
... present a fairly consecutive and connected history of the evolution of the American Nation and people . Not all phases of this evolution have been included , as it is believed that the true place of a source book is primarily to empha ...
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... present year , 1492 , after your Highnesses had given an end to the war with the Moors , . . . acting on the informa- tion that I had given to your Highnesses touching the lands of India , and respecting a Prince who is called Gran Can ...
... present year , 1492 , after your Highnesses had given an end to the war with the Moors , . . . acting on the informa- tion that I had given to your Highnesses touching the lands of India , and respecting a Prince who is called Gran Can ...
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... present a relation of what was seen and heard in the ten years I wandered lost and in privation through many and remote lands . . On the seventeenth day of June , in the year fifteen hundred and twenty - seven , the Governor Pamphilo de ...
... present a relation of what was seen and heard in the ten years I wandered lost and in privation through many and remote lands . . On the seventeenth day of June , in the year fifteen hundred and twenty - seven , the Governor Pamphilo de ...
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... present many of them also in a sickly and desperate estate . • Butler's information · " 8 The Virginia Company : A True Answer to Capt . Nathaniel Butler ( 1623 ) . " [ Various ] planters , masters of ships , and sun- dry other persons ...
... present many of them also in a sickly and desperate estate . • Butler's information · " 8 The Virginia Company : A True Answer to Capt . Nathaniel Butler ( 1623 ) . " [ Various ] planters , masters of ships , and sun- dry other persons ...
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... has been reduced to its present low and ruinous condi- we here assert in one word , . . . is bad govern- Trade . . has fallen off . . . owing tion , ment . • • • • · · We in- been driven • and the having 32 AMERICAN HISTORY.
... has been reduced to its present low and ruinous condi- we here assert in one word , . . . is bad govern- Trade . . has fallen off . . . owing tion , ment . • • • • · · We in- been driven • and the having 32 AMERICAN HISTORY.
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Page 302 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
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Page 213 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated " A Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each state, and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside; provided that no person be...
Page 426 - I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 366 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 386 - 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...
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Page 342 - 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 359 - Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth, cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of heaven, and the fruits of superior industry, economy and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages, artificial distinctions, to...