The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 16George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1876 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... June 20 , 1820 , 98 buildings , loss $ 490,000 ; Aug. 25 , 1854 , 300 buildings , loss $ 1,000,000 ; and May 10 , 1862 , 671 buildings , loss $ 3,000,000 . TROYES , a city of France , capital of the de- partment of Aube , and formerly ...
... June 20 , 1820 , 98 buildings , loss $ 490,000 ; Aug. 25 , 1854 , 300 buildings , loss $ 1,000,000 ; and May 10 , 1862 , 671 buildings , loss $ 3,000,000 . TROYES , a city of France , capital of the de- partment of Aube , and formerly ...
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... June . Botanists are not agreed as to the native country of the plant , some accrediting it to the East Indies and others to Mexico , but it must be treated like a native of the tropics . The flowers , both from being white and on ...
... June . Botanists are not agreed as to the native country of the plant , some accrediting it to the East Indies and others to Mexico , but it must be treated like a native of the tropics . The flowers , both from being white and on ...
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... June 25 , 1861 , and was succeeded by his bro- ther Abdul - Aziz . In December of the same year the Danubian principalities were permanently united under the name of Roumania , and in 1866 Charles I. of the house of Hohenzollern was ...
... June 25 , 1861 , and was succeeded by his bro- ther Abdul - Aziz . In December of the same year the Danubian principalities were permanently united under the name of Roumania , and in 1866 Charles I. of the house of Hohenzollern was ...
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... June it may be seen fluttering over turnip and cabbage beds for the purpose of attaching three or four of its eggs to the under side of the leaves ; the eggs are yellow- ish , pear - shaped , ribbed longitudinally , and White Butterfly ...
... June it may be seen fluttering over turnip and cabbage beds for the purpose of attaching three or four of its eggs to the under side of the leaves ; the eggs are yellow- ish , pear - shaped , ribbed longitudinally , and White Butterfly ...
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... June 30 : 5,476,815 14,951,808 184,900,238 5,458,508,216,224,982 10,295,121 11,403,172 21,698,293 178,620,188 18.069,550 196,689,718 2,046,679 136,946,912 87,487,837 192,368,984 23,548,585 218,417,697 88,062,570 252,047,806 58,957,418 ...
... June 30 : 5,476,815 14,951,808 184,900,238 5,458,508,216,224,982 10,295,121 11,403,172 21,698,293 178,620,188 18.069,550 196,689,718 2,046,679 136,946,912 87,487,837 192,368,984 23,548,585 218,417,697 88,062,570 252,047,806 58,957,418 ...
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Page 178 - States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens...
Page 179 - Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired. Justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 167 - ... is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved.
Page 151 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 168 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 163 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 168 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Page 178 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 167 - That the new dogma, that the constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent ; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
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