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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... great work of internal improvement gave rise to similar ones elsewhere , and was of vast benefit to the whole country . The Erie Canal continues. WEDDING OF THE LAKES WITH THE OCEAN . INDIANS ATTACKING MAIL - CARRIAGES .
... great work of internal improvement gave rise to similar ones elsewhere , and was of vast benefit to the whole country . The Erie Canal continues. WEDDING OF THE LAKES WITH THE OCEAN . INDIANS ATTACKING MAIL - CARRIAGES .
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... gave way to sunshine . President Jackson had been re - elected to the Chief Magistracy in the autumn of 1832 , with Martin Van Buren as Vice - President . The latter had been Secretary of State , and was appointed by the President ...
... gave way to sunshine . President Jackson had been re - elected to the Chief Magistracy in the autumn of 1832 , with Martin Van Buren as Vice - President . The latter had been Secretary of State , and was appointed by the President ...
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... gave a signal , when two or three of his soldiers rushed forward and seized and bound Osceola with strong cords . He made no resistance ; but several of his excited followers drew their gleaming hatchets from their belts . The muskets ...
... gave a signal , when two or three of his soldiers rushed forward and seized and bound Osceola with strong cords . He made no resistance ; but several of his excited followers drew their gleaming hatchets from their belts . The muskets ...
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... gave the insurgents all possible aid and comfort . Individuals and organized companies went across the border and joined the insurgents ; and refugees from Canada were protected here . The agitation and the outbreak occurred ...
... gave the insurgents all possible aid and comfort . Individuals and organized companies went across the border and joined the insurgents ; and refugees from Canada were protected here . The agitation and the outbreak occurred ...
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... gave omen of the dawn of a day of prosperity for the land , and there were glad hearts everywhere . But the anthems of the inaugural day were speed- ily changed into solemn dirges . The hopes centred in the new President were ...
... gave omen of the dawn of a day of prosperity for the land , and there were glad hearts everywhere . But the anthems of the inaugural day were speed- ily changed into solemn dirges . The hopes centred in the new President were ...
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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...