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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... grounds , or dancing floors , and sometimes . to their burial places ; the boats paddled upon the waters were their canoes ; the few places of the up- turned sod were the gardens for their vegetables and the patches for their maize ...
... grounds , or dancing floors , and sometimes . to their burial places ; the boats paddled upon the waters were their canoes ; the few places of the up- turned sod were the gardens for their vegetables and the patches for their maize ...
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... grounds , their favorite fishing spots and camping grounds and dancing floors , and worst of all the burial places of their dead , to the white man's occupancy and the white man's plowshare . Upon very little of that Indian life for the ...
... grounds , their favorite fishing spots and camping grounds and dancing floors , and worst of all the burial places of their dead , to the white man's occupancy and the white man's plowshare . Upon very little of that Indian life for the ...
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... grounds of which their pagan ancestors had told them and taught them to look for in the great future . Per- haps to them , amid those beauties of the world around them , some ideas of the power and the glory of the Great Spirit came ...
... grounds of which their pagan ancestors had told them and taught them to look for in the great future . Per- haps to them , amid those beauties of the world around them , some ideas of the power and the glory of the Great Spirit came ...
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... grounds and gardens and cornfields ; and for some years after 1833 the Pottawatomies still lingered among their long - cherished and delightful camping places . They were in no haste to leave ; and although the large body of them ...
... grounds and gardens and cornfields ; and for some years after 1833 the Pottawatomies still lingered among their long - cherished and delightful camping places . They were in no haste to leave ; and although the large body of them ...
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... grounds , and all , Catholic and Lutheran alike , had their chapels and churches and bells . Instead of chasing the elk the boys found plenty of deer and wolves to chase , and some of them made good hunters in our woods . * Many pioneer ...
... grounds , and all , Catholic and Lutheran alike , had their chapels and churches and bells . Instead of chasing the elk the boys found plenty of deer and wolves to chase , and some of them made good hunters in our woods . * Many pioneer ...
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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.