A Sketch of Chili: Expressly Prepared for the Use of Emigrants, from the United States and Europe to that Country, with a Map, and Several Papers Relating to the Present War Between that Country and Spain, and the Position Assumed by the United States ThereinS. Hallet, 1866 |
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... provinces of Chili ( which will be seen plainly marked on the accompanying ' map ) , their capitals and the population of each , are shown in the following table : Population of Provinces . Capitals . each Province . Atacama Copiapó ...
... provinces of Chili ( which will be seen plainly marked on the accompanying ' map ) , their capitals and the population of each , are shown in the following table : Population of Provinces . Capitals . each Province . Atacama Copiapó ...
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... provinces , with a population of 1,814,218 inhabitants ; but making the usual allowance of ten per cent . for the number omitted , the actual population cannot fall short of 2,000,000 . In this proportion the Indians are not included ...
... provinces , with a population of 1,814,218 inhabitants ; but making the usual allowance of ten per cent . for the number omitted , the actual population cannot fall short of 2,000,000 . In this proportion the Indians are not included ...
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... Provinces . Capitals . Copiapó La Serena San Felipe Population of each Province . 79,227 145,874 124,050 Valparaiso Valparaiso 142,200 Santiago Santiago 339,218 Colchagua San Fernando 142,456 Curicó Curicó 90,589 Talca Talca 100,574 ...
... Provinces . Capitals . Copiapó La Serena San Felipe Population of each Province . 79,227 145,874 124,050 Valparaiso Valparaiso 142,200 Santiago Santiago 339,218 Colchagua San Fernando 142,456 Curicó Curicó 90,589 Talca Talca 100,574 ...
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... province of Coquimbo , are built . Near Valparaiso , comminuted sea shells of living species are found at elevations of over five hundred and fifty feet ; and some , it is stated , have been met with even one thousand three hundred feet ...
... province of Coquimbo , are built . Near Valparaiso , comminuted sea shells of living species are found at elevations of over five hundred and fifty feet ; and some , it is stated , have been met with even one thousand three hundred feet ...
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... province of Valdivia ; it is nearly triangular , thirty miles long , and twenty - two miles in its greatest width . Near it , and lying in the same plain , are Todos los Santos , or Esmeralda , so called on account of its green ...
... province of Valdivia ; it is nearly triangular , thirty miles long , and twenty - two miles in its greatest width . Near it , and lying in the same plain , are Todos los Santos , or Esmeralda , so called on account of its green ...
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Abraham Lincoln Aconcagua Admiral Pareja agent American Applause Atacama beautiful believe capital cause cent character Chile Chili Chili and Spain Chilian Chiloé Chincha coast commerce Concepcion Congress continent Cooper Institute Copiapó copper Coquimbo coun declared desert of Atacama diplomatic Domingo duties E. G. Squier emigrants England Europe European exportation fact flag foreign France gentlemen heart Henry Winter Davis honor House hundred immense independence inhabitants La Serena land lecture liberal liberty live Mazarredo meeting Mexico miles millions Minister monarchy Monroe Doctrine mountains Napoleon nations navigable noble North obedient servant ocean Pacific Panamá patriotism peace Perú political ports present President principles provinces Republic of Chili republican respect Santiago Secretary Señor ships shores single South America southern Spain Spaniards Spanish Government steamers sympathy Talcahuano Tavira tion TRAVELER'S CLUB United Valdivia valleys Valparaiso Washington York
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Page 102 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 101 - MY FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON.
Page 16 - ... the occasion has been deemed 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 75 - Mexico; and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical government, erected on the ruins of any republican government in America, under the auspices of any European power.
Page 101 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with...
Page 102 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied...
Page 16 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 102 - ... good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either.
Page 126 - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninetieth.
Page 74 - ... and interests of the United States were involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they had assumed and maintained, were thenceforward not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.