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... mountains , with their pleasing grandeur , took hold on the imag- ination , and the influence which they exerted on those who must needs pass through or over them remains upon their descendants to this day . To this feature of Kentucky ...
... mountains , with their pleasing grandeur , took hold on the imag- ination , and the influence which they exerted on those who must needs pass through or over them remains upon their descendants to this day . To this feature of Kentucky ...
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... mountains at the sources of the Hiwassee River . Here Sir Alexander Cumming held a treaty with all the chiefs of the Cherokees in that year . He designated a chief named Moytoy , of Telliquo , to be the head chief of the whole Cherokee ...
... mountains at the sources of the Hiwassee River . Here Sir Alexander Cumming held a treaty with all the chiefs of the Cherokees in that year . He designated a chief named Moytoy , of Telliquo , to be the head chief of the whole Cherokee ...
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... Mountains . " Five towns " Inland towns on the branches of the Tanase and other waters over the Jove Mountains . " Eleven towns " Overhill towns on the Tanase or Cherokee River . ” In the last enumeration , the " Tanase or Cherokee ...
... Mountains . " Five towns " Inland towns on the branches of the Tanase and other waters over the Jove Mountains . " Eleven towns " Overhill towns on the Tanase or Cherokee River . ” In the last enumeration , the " Tanase or Cherokee ...
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... Mountain were named from the following circumstance . " An Irishman was one of the company ; in crossing the river he ... mountains in Virginia , while hunting there in 1761. On a birch tree on Powell's River , near the mouth of Wallen's ...
... Mountain were named from the following circumstance . " An Irishman was one of the company ; in crossing the river he ... mountains in Virginia , while hunting there in 1761. On a birch tree on Powell's River , near the mouth of Wallen's ...
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... Mountains , and the pass through this range which we know as Cum- berland Gap . But Doctor Walker did nothing of the kind . When he and his companions arrived at the gap on the 13th it must already have had a name - Cave Gap - and this ...
... Mountains , and the pass through this range which we know as Cum- berland Gap . But Doctor Walker did nothing of the kind . When he and his companions arrived at the gap on the 13th it must already have had a name - Cave Gap - and this ...
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Page 372 - They tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head. They have seen, in the negotiation by the executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event throughout the United States, a...
Page 416 - Constitution as cognizable by them; that they may transfer its cognizance to the President or any other person, who may himself be the accuser, counsel, judge and jury, whose suspicions may be the evidence, his order the sentence, his officer, the executioner, and his breast the sole record of the transaction; that a very numerous and valuable description of the inhabitants of these States...
Page 420 - That although this commonwealth, as a party to the federal compact, will bow to the laws of the Union, yet it does, at the same time, declare that it will not now, or ever hereafter, cease to oppose In a constitutional manner every attempt, at what quarter soever offered, to violate that compact.
Page 426 - 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 415 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 281 - The general assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated.
Page 312 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Page 313 - Assembly, shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 443 - April, 1818, by which, amongst other things, it was declared that, if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin, or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence...
Page 420 - Resolved, That this Commonwealth considers the Federal Union upon the terms and for the purposes specified in the late compact, as conducive to the liberty and happiness of the several States ; that it does now unequivocally declare its attachment to the Union, and to that compact, agreeably to its obvious and real intention, and will...