Coronado's Journey to New Mexico and the Great Plains: 1540-42George Parker Winship A. Lovell, 1894 - 15 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
Page 2
... force , with orders to set out twenty days after him , and when he reached the valley of Hearts ( or Corazones ) to wait there for word from him , which would be sent after he had reached Cibola , and had seen what was there ; and this ...
... force , with orders to set out twenty days after him , and when he reached the valley of Hearts ( or Corazones ) to wait there for word from him , which would be sent after he had reached Cibola , and had seen what was there ; and this ...
Page 4
... force to explore the West ; and he did so and travelled a hundred and fifty leagues , to the river which Hernando de Alarcon entered from the sea , which he called the Buenaguia . The population and people who are in this direction are ...
... force to explore the West ; and he did so and travelled a hundred and fifty leagues , to the river which Hernando de Alarcon entered from the sea , which he called the Buenaguia . The population and people who are in this direction are ...
Page 7
... force came . There were twelve villages , and one night they killed forty of our horses and mules which were loose in the camp . They made themselves secure in their villages , and war was then declared against them , and D. Garci ...
... force came . There were twelve villages , and one night they killed forty of our horses and mules which were loose in the camp . They made themselves secure in their villages , and war was then declared against them , and D. Garci ...
Page 11
... force I have , as Your Majesty had ordered me to show in my let- ters ; and that while engaged in the conquest and pacifica- tion of the natives of this province , some Indians who were natives of other provinces beyond these had told ...
... force I have , as Your Majesty had ordered me to show in my let- ters ; and that while engaged in the conquest and pacifica- tion of the natives of this province , some Indians who were natives of other provinces beyond these had told ...
Page 13
... force I had with me to this province , with Don Tristan de Arellano in command , because it would have been impossible to prevent the loss of many men , if all should go on , owing to the lack of water and , besides , the fact that they ...
... force I had with me to this province , with Don Tristan de Arellano in command , because it would have been impossible to prevent the loss of many men , if all should go on , owing to the lack of water and , besides , the fact that they ...
Common terms and phrases
aforesaid ALBERT BUSHNELL HART alien amendments American History Leaflets appointed Assembly authority boundary called Cibola citizen CLINTON BROWN Cloth co-States COLONIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL Commander Commissioners commonwealth compact compromise Congress court cows Culiacan declared Degrees delegated duty EDWARD CHANNING Eight Hours Day English executive Federal force Fort Pickens Fort Sumter Forts Francisco Vazquez further enacted Governor Grand Council granted HAROLD Cox HARRIS PATTON heirs and successors History Leaflets COLONIAL houses hundred Indians Islands judge Landes and Heredita Large 12 mo Latitude liberty LOVELL & COMPANY lying main Land Majesty Massachusetts ment Mexico Miles Missouri North officer person Political present President President-General Price principles prohibited Province provision Quibira resolutions respective River Sea Coast secede Sedition Senate SIDNEY WEBB sieur de Monts slave slavery South Territory of Nebraska thence thereof tion Union United unto villages Virginia West whatsoever whole York York Post
Popular passages
Page 6 - That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States ; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Page 7 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 19 - That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians...
Page 20 - States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fif ty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...
Page 7 - ... and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction in all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States...
Page 17 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 25 - ... endangered by the now incoming administration. I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States, when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Page 20 - It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 8 - ... thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, insomuch, that whatever violates either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that libels, falsehoods, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals.