Our Country: A Household History of the United States for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, Volume 3 |
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... Close , 1760 . CHAPTER XXXI . Growth , Extent and Population of Our Domain , 1761 - Progress in Agriculture and its Products , 1761 - Mineral Wealth , 1764 - Beginning of Manufactures , 1765 - Early Industries and their Productions ...
... Close , 1760 . CHAPTER XXXI . Growth , Extent and Population of Our Domain , 1761 - Progress in Agriculture and its Products , 1761 - Mineral Wealth , 1764 - Beginning of Manufactures , 1765 - Early Industries and their Productions ...
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... the Seminoles ; but under other leaders they continued to resist notwithstanding almost nine thousand United States troops were in their territory at the close. INDIANS ATTACKING MAIL - CARRIAGES . THE HARD CIDER CAMPAIGN .
... the Seminoles ; but under other leaders they continued to resist notwithstanding almost nine thousand United States troops were in their territory at the close. INDIANS ATTACKING MAIL - CARRIAGES . THE HARD CIDER CAMPAIGN .
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... close of 1837. Their fastnesses in the everglades could not be penetrated by the troops and they defied them , even after they received a severe chastisement from six hun- dred national soldiers under Colonel Zachary Taylor ( afterward ...
... close of 1837. Their fastnesses in the everglades could not be penetrated by the troops and they defied them , even after they received a severe chastisement from six hun- dred national soldiers under Colonel Zachary Taylor ( afterward ...
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... close of the session in 1837 . The President refused to sign this bill ; and to prevent its becoming a law by a two - thirds vote after he should veto it , he kept it in his hands until Congress had adjourned . His message giving his ...
... close of the session in 1837 . The President refused to sign this bill ; and to prevent its becoming a law by a two - thirds vote after he should veto it , he kept it in his hands until Congress had adjourned . His message giving his ...
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... close of that war , and was in the fifty - fifth year of his age when he entered the chair of state . The day of his inauguration was bright and serene , and he rode from the Presidential mansion to the Capitol by the side of the ...
... close of that war , and was in the fifty - fifth year of his age when he entered the chair of state . The day of his inauguration was bright and serene , and he rode from the Presidential mansion to the Capitol by the side of the ...
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Page 1926 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.
Page 1973 - ... of commerce, but forcing nothing ; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate ; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested...
Page 1932 - Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to, all the advantages of this Union ; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.
Page 1927 - No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 1967 - I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
Page 1931 - ... place appointed and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled. But if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any state should not raise men or should raise a smaller number than its quota and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 1597 - And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 1958 - ... from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Page 1965 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Page 1967 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions...