Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries, with Selections from His SpeechesCourier-journal job printing Company, 1887 - 640 Seiten |
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... Parties of Indians would stealthily approach the unsuspecting settlers of the wilderness . Horses would be stolen ... party of Indians stole all of Colonel Hardin's horses , and escaped in safety across the Ohio . This year he was ...
... Parties of Indians would stealthily approach the unsuspecting settlers of the wilderness . Horses would be stolen ... party of Indians stole all of Colonel Hardin's horses , and escaped in safety across the Ohio . This year he was ...
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... party of Indians , another band came and murdered two of his brothers . Inquire of yonder gentleman from Arkansas what became of his brother - in- law , Oldham . He will tell you that he went out to battle , but never returned . Ask ...
... party of Indians , another band came and murdered two of his brothers . Inquire of yonder gentleman from Arkansas what became of his brother - in- law , Oldham . He will tell you that he went out to battle , but never returned . Ask ...
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... . " If both these were denied , the injured party had left a full and efficient remedy which was to brand his adversary as a " poltroon , and a coward unworthy of admission to the pale of gentlemen . " 40 BEN HARDIN .
... . " If both these were denied , the injured party had left a full and efficient remedy which was to brand his adversary as a " poltroon , and a coward unworthy of admission to the pale of gentlemen . " 40 BEN HARDIN .
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... party sent a challenge , the challenged party had the right to dictate the terms of the fight . This he did in such a way ( as far as he could ) as to afford himself every advantage over his adversary . Before the meeting each ...
... party sent a challenge , the challenged party had the right to dictate the terms of the fight . This he did in such a way ( as far as he could ) as to afford himself every advantage over his adversary . Before the meeting each ...
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... parties fought , at the distance of twenty yards , with shot - guns . " Did I not know , while in Washington , Barron and Decatur , two of the first men at that period in America , come up in mortal array within sixteen feet of each ...
... parties fought , at the distance of twenty yards , with shot - guns . " Did I not know , while in Washington , Barron and Decatur , two of the first men at that period in America , come up in mortal array within sixteen feet of each ...
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Seite 300 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Seite 423 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Seite 114 - All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial or delay.
Seite 362 - Senate, appoint all officers, whose offices are established by this Constitution, or shall be established by law, and whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for...
Seite 422 - The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
Seite 599 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as...
Seite 431 - Affairs, and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs,1 who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or entrusted to him by the President of the United States...
Seite 117 - All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate ; when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation ; no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
Seite 569 - ... a speckled ax was best;" for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated...
Seite 363 - He shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment. In case of treason, he shall have power to grant reprieves until the end of the next session of the General Assembly, in which the power of pardoning shall be vested.