American Historical Documents: 1000-1904Charles William Eliot P. F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 491 Seiten Including: Voyages to Vinland; Letter of Columbus announcing his discovery; Amerigo Vespucci's account; John Cabot's discovery of North America; First Charter of Virginia; Mayflower Compact; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; 1783 treaty with Great Britain; 1083 treaty with France (Lousiana Purchase); 1850 Fugitive Slave act; 1865 Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox; 1867 treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase); 1904 convention btw. the US and Panama; and others. |
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... therein everything will be seen in detail : so that I shall not enlarge further in this chapter : as in the course of the letter we shall come to many other things which are particular : let this suffice for the general . At this ...
... therein everything will be seen in detail : so that I shall not enlarge further in this chapter : as in the course of the letter we shall come to many other things which are particular : let this suffice for the general . At this ...
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... therein , and in them all we found nothing else than two old women and a sick man : we took away from them many things , but of small value : and we would not burn their houses , because it seemed to us ( as though that would be ) a ...
... therein , and in them all we found nothing else than two old women and a sick man : we took away from them many things , but of small value : and we would not burn their houses , because it seemed to us ( as though that would be ) a ...
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... therein ; but in case there should not be sixe chosen as aforesaid , besids the Gouernor , out of those which are nominated , then he or they which haue the most written papers shall be a Magestrate or Magestrats for the 64 AMERICAN ...
... therein ; but in case there should not be sixe chosen as aforesaid , besids the Gouernor , out of those which are nominated , then he or they which haue the most written papers shall be a Magestrate or Magestrats for the 64 AMERICAN ...
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... send so many deputyes as the Courte shall judge meete , a resonable proportion to the number of Freemen that are in the said Townes being to be attended therein ; which deputyes shall have the 66 AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS.
... send so many deputyes as the Courte shall judge meete , a resonable proportion to the number of Freemen that are in the said Townes being to be attended therein ; which deputyes shall have the 66 AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS.
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1000-1904 Charles William Eliot. to be attended therein ; which deputyes shall have the power of the whole Towne to giue their voats and alowance to all such lawes and orders as may be for the publike good , and unto which the said ...
1000-1904 Charles William Eliot. to be attended therein ; which deputyes shall have the power of the whole Towne to giue their voats and alowance to all such lawes and orders as may be for the publike good , and unto which the said ...
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aforesaid agreed America appointed arms army ARTICLE articles of confederation authority batteries battle battle of Gettysburg Biarni Brattahlid brigade Britain Britannic Majesty Canal cause ceded citizens claims Colonies command Commissioners consent Constitution Council crest Culp's Hill declared Division duty election Emmetsburg enemy execution fight fire force freemen Freydis fugitive Generall Court George Popham George Somers Gettysburg Gibbon Government granted Greenland guns hath Hawaiian Islands hereby hundred infantry inhabitants islands judge justice Karlsefni Lake land legislature Leif liberty Lord Protector manner Meade ment Mexican nations necessary oath offence officers Parliament party peace penalties person Plantations ports present treaty President punishment Ralegh Gilbert ratifications Rebel Republic of Panama respective river rule Second Corps Senate sentence ship sovereignty Spain Taneytown territory thence therein thereof things Third Corps thousand tion town troops Union United unto vessels whole wounded
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Seite 343 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Seite 198 - Person. (2) The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. (3) No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (4) No Capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Seite 169 - ... treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Seite 277 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 468 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Seite 451 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him?
Seite 296 - 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 275 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Seite 204 - Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of...
Seite 260 - Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of Free Government. — Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?