THE GREAT REPUBLIC: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN UNION |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 67
Page 71
... . 199 Alabama ........ 577 189 Total Central States ... 317,162 Washington Territory ..... 6 Total Southeast . States . 13,444 AVOWED DESTINATION OF EMIGRANTS - Continued . Southwestern States . THE UNITED STATES . 71.
... . 199 Alabama ........ 577 189 Total Central States ... 317,162 Washington Territory ..... 6 Total Southeast . States . 13,444 AVOWED DESTINATION OF EMIGRANTS - Continued . Southwestern States . THE UNITED STATES . 71.
Page 72
... Continued . Southwestern States . Missouri .. Kentucky . .... Tennessee .... Arkansas .... Mississippi . Louisiana .... Texas Other Places . Canada ... 44,309 New Brunswick ....... 11,657 New Dominion .... 4,171 South America 302 603 ...
... Continued . Southwestern States . Missouri .. Kentucky . .... Tennessee .... Arkansas .... Mississippi . Louisiana .... Texas Other Places . Canada ... 44,309 New Brunswick ....... 11,657 New Dominion .... 4,171 South America 302 603 ...
Page 114
... continued to increase in population as rapidly as the southern part . A very large number of French Calvinists , about the year 1690 , after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes , settled in South Carolina . Some years later they were ...
... continued to increase in population as rapidly as the southern part . A very large number of French Calvinists , about the year 1690 , after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes , settled in South Carolina . Some years later they were ...
Page 116
... continued to prosper . Schools were established in Virginia in 1621 , in the Plymouth Colony soon after , and in New Amsterdam shortly after its settle- ment . In 1637 , Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts ; in 1692 , William ...
... continued to prosper . Schools were established in Virginia in 1621 , in the Plymouth Colony soon after , and in New Amsterdam shortly after its settle- ment . In 1637 , Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts ; in 1692 , William ...
Page 120
... continued for two years , and which taught the English that he was no insignificant foe . In 1756 , he captured Oswego , with its immense military stores , which had been placed there by the English . In 1757 , he compelled Fort William ...
... continued for two years , and which taught the English that he was no insignificant foe . In 1756 , he captured Oswego , with its immense military stores , which had been placed there by the English . In 1757 , he compelled Fort William ...
Contents
162 | |
188 | |
204 | |
222 | |
273 | |
291 | |
319 | |
404 | |
777 | |
794 | |
815 | |
840 | |
859 | |
897 | |
917 | |
933 | |
428 | |
490 | |
499 | |
529 | |
554 | |
595 | |
612 | |
631 | |
649 | |
663 | |
681 | |
699 | |
730 | |
754 | |
944 | |
962 | |
982 | |
988 | |
1000 | |
1007 | |
1015 | |
1052 | |
1062 | |
1070 | |
1080 | |
1086 | |
1092 | |
1109 | |
Common terms and phrases
acres American amounted annual army Asylum Baltimore bank beautiful Boston British buildings built bushels Canal capital Captain centre churches coast College Colonel colony command commerce Congress connected contains cotton Court Delaware District east eastern elected England Erie established extends feet fire flows force French Government Governor Gulf of Mexico handsome harbor House Illinois Indians inhabitants institutions iron Island Kentucky Lake Lake Erie Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior land latitude Legislature lighted with gas Louisiana manufactures Massachusetts Mayor and Council miles long Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri Mountains mouth navigable North Carolina northern occupied Ohio Ohio River Orleans Pennsylvania Philadelphia population portion Potawatomies principal prisoners public schools railroad railway RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS residences Rhode Island River settlement settlers shore situated southern Square Miles steamers stream street Tennessee territory tion town trade troops Union United vessels Virginia Washington western York
Popular passages
Page 591 - During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 151 - 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 maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 317 - The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment : if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
Page 592 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 759 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
Page 35 - Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut . . New York New Jersey . . . Pennsylvania. Delaware Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia. Florida..
Page 315 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 759 - Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression.
Page 130 - Seth Pomeroy, Richard Montgomery, David Wooster, William Heath, Joseph Spencer, John Thomas, John Sullivan, and Nathaniel Greene.
Page 535 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.