The Historians' History of the World: The United States (concluded), Spanish AmericaHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... , 194. " King George's War " and the taking of Louisburg , 195 . Specie currency in Massachusetts ; the first theatricals , 199. The Ohio Company , 200 . George Washington in the west ; did he assassinate Jumonville viii CONTENTS.
... , 194. " King George's War " and the taking of Louisburg , 195 . Specie currency in Massachusetts ; the first theatricals , 199. The Ohio Company , 200 . George Washington in the west ; did he assassinate Jumonville viii CONTENTS.
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... Washington a good general ? 256 . Washington driven across the Jerseys , 259. Washington made dictator ; wins at Tren- ton and Princeton , 260. Creasy's account of Burgoyne's campaign , 263. Washington loses two battles and the capital ...
... Washington a good general ? 256 . Washington driven across the Jerseys , 259. Washington made dictator ; wins at Tren- ton and Princeton , 260. Creasy's account of Burgoyne's campaign , 263. Washington loses two battles and the capital ...
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... Washington , in April , 1793 , issued a procla- mation of neutrality , which marks in international relations the new principle , that a maritime power could remain neutral through a general European This attitude was unwelcome both to ...
... Washington , in April , 1793 , issued a procla- mation of neutrality , which marks in international relations the new principle , that a maritime power could remain neutral through a general European This attitude was unwelcome both to ...
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... Washington , landed on the gulf coast , and occupied Astoria in Oregon . Nevertheless , the defeat of invading expeditions on Lake Champlain , and below New Orleans , by raw militia behind breastworks proved that a perma- nent conquest ...
... Washington , landed on the gulf coast , and occupied Astoria in Oregon . Nevertheless , the defeat of invading expeditions on Lake Champlain , and below New Orleans , by raw militia behind breastworks proved that a perma- nent conquest ...
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... Washington , D. C. In attempting to discuss in a few pages some salient facts of the Revolu- tionary period in American history , we are forced to select only two or three of the most significant general truths . The Revolutionary ...
... Washington , D. C. In attempting to discuss in a few pages some salient facts of the Revolu- tionary period in American history , we are forced to select only two or three of the most significant general truths . The Revolutionary ...
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Seite 437 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Seite 437 - States, do proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion...
Seite 438 - State shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional provision, which declares that ' the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and, on application of the Legislature, or the executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
Seite 290 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 23 - ... you shall be governed by laws of your own making, and live a free, and, if you will, a sober and industrious people. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution, and has given me His grace to keep it. In short, whatever sober and free men can reasonably desire for the security and improvement of their own happiness, I shall heartily comply with, and in five months resolve, if it please God, to see you.
Seite 267 - For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall; and by their confirmation or lapse it is yet to be decided, whether the revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse ; a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.
Seite 288 - ... defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the Government, which was not done on the purest motives; that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since...
Seite 437 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such State at the Presidential election...
Seite 332 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Seite 441 - We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the Government, civil and military, in regard to those States, is to again get them into that proper practical relation.