American History: Comprising Historical Sketches of the Indian Tribes: A Description of American Antiquities, with an Inquiry Into Their Origin and and the Origin of the Indian Tribes; History of the United States, with Appendices Showing Its Connection with European History; History of the Present British Provinces; History of Mexico; and History of Texas, Brought Down to the Time of Its Admission Into the American Union ...M.H. Newman & Company, 1847 - 672 pages |
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... given the most important , of what little is known , of the history of the Aborigines of America , together with descriptive sketches of those rude memorials of a former civilization that were once so numerous throughout our own ...
... given the most important , of what little is known , of the history of the Aborigines of America , together with descriptive sketches of those rude memorials of a former civilization that were once so numerous throughout our own ...
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... given at the bottom of the chart ; after the territories , at the left , and ad- joining Oregon , appear Texas , Mexico , and Central America . The large chart , of which this is a very imperfect outline , gives the prominent features ...
... given at the bottom of the chart ; after the territories , at the left , and ad- joining Oregon , appear Texas , Mexico , and Central America . The large chart , of which this is a very imperfect outline , gives the prominent features ...
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... given them ; whereupon the court there named Wamsutta , the elder brother , Alexander ; and Metacomet , the younger brother , Philip . " Of the celebrated war which Philip waged against the New England Colonies , an account has ...
... given them ; whereupon the court there named Wamsutta , the elder brother , Alexander ; and Metacomet , the younger brother , Philip . " Of the celebrated war which Philip waged against the New England Colonies , an account has ...
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... given the country to his red children in common , for a per- petual inheritance - that one tribe had no right to sell to another , much less to strangers , unless all the tribes joined in the treaty . " The Americans , " said he ...
... given the country to his red children in common , for a per- petual inheritance - that one tribe had no right to sell to another , much less to strangers , unless all the tribes joined in the treaty . " The Americans , " said he ...
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... given up , and the whites should agree never to make another treaty , without the consent of all the tribes , his unalterable resolution was war . Several chiefs of different tribes , -Wyandots , Kickapoos , Potowatomies , Ottawas , and ...
... given up , and the whites should agree never to make another treaty , without the consent of all the tribes , his unalterable resolution was war . Several chiefs of different tribes , -Wyandots , Kickapoos , Potowatomies , Ottawas , and ...
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Page 423 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!
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Page 351 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 141 - The king started a little, and said : ' By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you.
Page 36 - Indians ceded to the United States all their lands east of the Mississippi River.
Page 36 - You have taken me prisoner with all my warriors. I am much grieved, for I expected, if I did not defeat you, to hold out much longer, and give you more trouble before I surrendered. I tried hard to bring you into ambush, but your last general understands Indian fighting.
Page 441 - ... for the preservation of his health. His exterior created in the beholder the idea of strength, united with manly gracefulness. His manners were rather reserved than free, though they partook nothing of that dryness and sternness which accompany reserve when carried to an extreme ; and on all proper occasions he could relax sufficiently to show how highly he was gratified by the charms of conversation, and the pleasures of society. His person and...
Page 158 - Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
Page 441 - That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Page 42 - I do not sleep; I have my eyes open, and the sun which enlightens me, discovers to me a great captain at the head of a company of soldiers who speaks as if he were dreaming.