History of the United States: From 1492 to 1872Brewer and Tileston, 1876 - 507 pages |
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... was annihilated by the Spanish force under Menendez de Aviles , ( 1565. ) Such of the French as did not escape or fall in battle were put to death by the Spaniard and the Catholic , " ( 9 ) CHAPTER III FRENCH SETTLEMENTS.
... was annihilated by the Spanish force under Menendez de Aviles , ( 1565. ) Such of the French as did not escape or fall in battle were put to death by the Spaniard and the Catholic , " ( 9 ) CHAPTER III FRENCH SETTLEMENTS.
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... force upon the soil not only of New York , but of Connecticut , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , and Delaware , and all within ten years of its first operations . Patroons . But upon this vast surface the company's settle- ments were as dots ...
... force upon the soil not only of New York , but of Connecticut , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , and Delaware , and all within ten years of its first operations . Patroons . But upon this vast surface the company's settle- ments were as dots ...
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... forces ; such the Roman Catholics , conquered while fighting for their faith in Ireland . Such , too , were many of the exiles from the continent . So great were the numbers imported as to amount — and in time of peace - to fifteen ...
... forces ; such the Roman Catholics , conquered while fighting for their faith in Ireland . Such , too , were many of the exiles from the continent . So great were the numbers imported as to amount — and in time of peace - to fifteen ...
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... force his views upon none , and ready to fly rather than to fight amidst the war- ring parties of New England . But when pursued by his old opponents of Massachusetts , on the ground that the land which his colony occupied was theirs by ...
... force his views upon none , and ready to fly rather than to fight amidst the war- ring parties of New England . But when pursued by his old opponents of Massachusetts , on the ground that the land which his colony occupied was theirs by ...
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... forces , amounting in all to little more than one hundred , with two or three hundred Indian allies , took the field , and in four months swept the unhappy Pequots from the face of the earth . Nearly a thousand of them were slain ; the ...
... forces , amounting in all to little more than one hundred , with two or three hundred Indian allies , took the field , and in four months swept the unhappy Pequots from the face of the earth . Nearly a thousand of them were slain ; the ...
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Page 260 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 416 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 417 - Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774.
Page 317 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 407 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 416 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world for all future time.
Page 417 - It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 246 - For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall; and by their confirmation or lapse it is yet to be decided, whether the revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse ; a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.
Page 407 - ... them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again, on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
Page 173 - An act for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain.