Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900: Or, A View of Our Region Through the Nineteenth CenturyDonohue & Henneberry, printers, 1900 - 570 Seiten |
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... receives the waters of the Coosa and Tallapoosa , a slope which , passing the great pine belt , terminates at length at the waters of the Bay and the great Mexican Gulf . By passing through forests and crossing rivers , Indians , explorers.
... receives the waters of the Coosa and Tallapoosa , a slope which , passing the great pine belt , terminates at length at the waters of the Bay and the great Mexican Gulf . By passing through forests and crossing rivers , Indians , explorers.
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... crossing rivers , Indians , explorers , and traders could pass from the shore of Lake Michigan to those Southern waters , a distance of some eight hundred miles . How many Indian parties ever made that journey before the days of ...
... crossing rivers , Indians , explorers , and traders could pass from the shore of Lake Michigan to those Southern waters , a distance of some eight hundred miles . How many Indian parties ever made that journey before the days of ...
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... crossed the Atlantic and struck upon our shores , and war with France seemed for a time inevitable . John Adams was the American President . Wash- ington died December 14 , 1799 ; in 1800 the national capital was removed from ...
... crossed the Atlantic and struck upon our shores , and war with France seemed for a time inevitable . John Adams was the American President . Wash- ington died December 14 , 1799 ; in 1800 the national capital was removed from ...
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... crossed it , and there were as tribu- taries to these many small streams which the map does not show . Along the largest of these rivers , known as the Kankakee , flowing in a south- westerly direction , was a broad strip of marsh land ...
... crossed it , and there were as tribu- taries to these many small streams which the map does not show . Along the largest of these rivers , known as the Kankakee , flowing in a south- westerly direction , was a broad strip of marsh land ...
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... crossing it where is now Monticello , and leading from the Wabash River up to Lake Michigan . In what is now Jasper County many corn fields were found , generally small patches of land , but some- times in a single field would be an ...
... crossing it where is now Monticello , and leading from the Wabash River up to Lake Michigan . In what is now Jasper County many corn fields were found , generally small patches of land , but some- times in a single field would be an ...
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Seite 41 - Wabash river; and thence by a due north line until the same shall intersect an east and west line, drawn through a point ten miles north of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan; on the North by said east and west line, until the same shall intersect the first mentioned meridian line, which forms the western boundary of the State of Ohio.
Seite 365 - But what will become of the West if her prosperity rushes up to such a majesty of power, while those great institutions linger which are necessary to form the mind and the conscience and the heart of that vast world. It must not be permitted. . . . Let no man at the East quiet himself and dream of liberty, whatever may become of the West. . . . Her destiny is our destiny.
Seite 41 - Vincennes, would last touch the northwestern shore of the said river; and from thence by a due north line, until the same shall intersect an east and west line drawn through a point ten miles north of the southern extreme...
Seite 26 - Thou art worthy; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Seite 365 - If in our haste to be rich and mighty, we outrun our literary and religious institutions, they will never overtake us ; or only come up after the battle of liberty is fought and lost, as spoils to grace the victory, and as resources of inexorable despotism for the perpetuity of our bondage.
Seite 137 - Did the Almighty,' says Lessing, ' holding in his right hand Truth, and in his left Search after Truth, deign to tender me the one I might prefer, — in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request Search after Truth.
Seite 7 - Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Seite 62 - And whose wealth is all for the first brave guest." " But alas ! that we should go" — Sang the farewell voices then — " From the homesteads, warm and low, By the brook and in the glen...
Seite 66 - Resolved, that if Congress should neglect or refuse to pass a law before the land on which we live is offered for sale, which shall secure to us our rights, we will hereafter adopt such measures as may be necessary effectually to secure each other in our just claims.
Seite 493 - ... come, when James Brown Ray, the Governor of the State, announced to the immense assemblage that the convict was pardoned. Never before did an audience more heartily respond, while there was a universal regret that the executive mercy had been deferred to the last moment. Thus ended the only trials where convictions of murder were ever had, followed by the execution of white men, for killing Indians, in the United States.