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... whole of this domain should be given at once . There must be room for enlargement ; and the gradual extension of territory has accorded precisely with the exigencies of the Republic . Not including the recent accession of Russian ...
... whole of this domain should be given at once . There must be room for enlargement ; and the gradual extension of territory has accorded precisely with the exigencies of the Republic . Not including the recent accession of Russian ...
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... whole Atlantic coast , from the future Philadelphia to Montreal , to the noble Calvinist De Monts , with religious toleration for the persecuted Hu- guenots ; but hostile savages , fierce winds , and shipwrecks , with successive ...
... whole Atlantic coast , from the future Philadelphia to Montreal , to the noble Calvinist De Monts , with religious toleration for the persecuted Hu- guenots ; but hostile savages , fierce winds , and shipwrecks , with successive ...
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... whole of it , and his cure also , if absent four months . He who disparaged a minister without proof was to be fined five hundred pounds of tobacco , and to beg the minister's pardon before the congre- gation . The ministers ' salaries ...
... whole of it , and his cure also , if absent four months . He who disparaged a minister without proof was to be fined five hundred pounds of tobacco , and to beg the minister's pardon before the congre- gation . The ministers ' salaries ...
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... whole assembly , ' and , let it be observed , ' with thanks for it to Almighty God , and to those from whom it had issued in the name of the burgesses , and the whole colony whom they represented , the more so as they were promised the ...
... whole assembly , ' and , let it be observed , ' with thanks for it to Almighty God , and to those from whom it had issued in the name of the burgesses , and the whole colony whom they represented , the more so as they were promised the ...
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... whole . Dutchmen could live here , and on the Connecticut , and on the Hudson , where the right of discovery and settlement was undoubtedly with them ; but they could erect no States for Holland . The Eng- lish , urged forward by ...
... whole . Dutchmen could live here , and on the Connecticut , and on the Hudson , where the right of discovery and settlement was undoubtedly with them ; but they could erect no States for Holland . The Eng- lish , urged forward by ...
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Page 589 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 668 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 253 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 94 - In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King' James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and country...
Page 663 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 322 - Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose Providential aid can supply every human defect...
Page 668 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 16 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 258 - For abolishing the free system of English law in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies: For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our government: For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases...
Page 13 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.