Vincent's Semi-annual United States Register: A Work in which the Principal Events of Every Half-year Occuring in the United States are Recorded, Each Arranged Under the Day of Its Date. This Volume Contains the Events Transpiring Between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860, Band 1Francis Vincent F. Vincent, 1860 - 662 Seiten |
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... party , including Mr. Mackenzie , started from Georgetown , at the mouth of the Buffalo River , to cross the prairie to Fort Larry . They started December 23d , taking mules . The latter gave out in three days , distance only half done ...
... party , including Mr. Mackenzie , started from Georgetown , at the mouth of the Buffalo River , to cross the prairie to Fort Larry . They started December 23d , taking mules . The latter gave out in three days , distance only half done ...
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... party ruled the Convention . The resolutions adopted oppose the strongest opposition to the extension of slavery ; charge the existing excitements on the Democrats ; condemn all measures of vio- lence , whether for the establishment of ...
... party ruled the Convention . The resolutions adopted oppose the strongest opposition to the extension of slavery ; charge the existing excitements on the Democrats ; condemn all measures of vio- lence , whether for the establishment of ...
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... parties who were burned to death had aid nearly extended to them . In one case one of these persons was helped to a glass of water , by parties who were endeavoring ta extricate her . She said that near her , seporated only * by a ...
... parties who were burned to death had aid nearly extended to them . In one case one of these persons was helped to a glass of water , by parties who were endeavoring ta extricate her . She said that near her , seporated only * by a ...
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... party had just time to get A citizen , who risked his own life in an at - half a dozen feet from the wall when it fell . tempt to save the operatives from the burning pile , worked his way into an inner apartment , and , looking through ...
... party had just time to get A citizen , who risked his own life in an at - half a dozen feet from the wall when it fell . tempt to save the operatives from the burning pile , worked his way into an inner apartment , and , looking through ...
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... party was commanded by Lieutenant Hunt , who at once demanded from Captain Vincent his papers . The latter , not recognising the right of any British officer to make such a demand , posi- tively refused to show any thing but the ...
... party was commanded by Lieutenant Hunt , who at once demanded from Captain Vincent his papers . The latter , not recognising the right of any British officer to make such a demand , posi- tively refused to show any thing but the ...
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Seite 178 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Seite 341 - Inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the Democratic party as to the nature and extent of the powers of a Territorial Legislature, and as to the powers and duties of Congress, under the Constitution of the United States, over the institution of Slavery within the Territories : "2. Resolved, That the Democratic Party will abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the questions of Constitutional law.
Seite 341 - That the enactments of state legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect.
Seite 341 - That the democracy of the United States recognize it as the imperative duty of this Government to protect the naturalized citizen in all his rights, whether at home or in foreign lands, to the same extent as its native-born citizens. Wliereas, one of the greatest necessities of the age in a political, commercial, postal, and military point of view...
Seite 241 - We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Seite 341 - Resolved, That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions : First. That the government of a Territory, organized by an act of Congress, is provisional and temporary ; and, during its existence, all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by congressional or territorial legislation. Second....
Seite 341 - That we, the Democracy of the Union in convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic convention at Cincinnati in the year 1856...
Seite 426 - Convention, denominated the platform, and without any unnecessary or unreasonable delay, respond to you, Mr. Chairman, in writing, not doubting that the platform will be found satisfactory, and the nomination gratefully accepted. " And now I will not longer defer the pleasure of taking you, and each of you, by the hand.
Seite 178 - ... at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed...
Seite 135 - Resolved, That the inhabitants of a territory of the United States, when they rightfully form a constitution to be admitted as a state into the Union, may then, for the first time, like the people of a state when forming a new constitution, decide for themselves whether slavery, as a domestic institution, shall be maintained or prohibited within their jurisdiction; and "they shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.