History of the United States: From 1492 to 1872Brewer and Tileston, 1876 - 507 pages |
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... principles — External relations Internal relations , 31. Connecticut , 32. Providence and Rhode Island - Dissolution of the council , 33. End of companies - Position of New England - Thomas Morton , 34 . - - - Section 3.- Proprietors ...
... principles — External relations Internal relations , 31. Connecticut , 32. Providence and Rhode Island - Dissolution of the council , 33. End of companies - Position of New England - Thomas Morton , 34 . - - - Section 3.- Proprietors ...
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... principles of growth and of independence of the were at work . Among the earliest settlers were colony . men of culture and of earnestness , men who , like Alexander Whitaker , " a scholar , a graduate , and a preach- er , " devoted ...
... principles of growth and of independence of the were at work . Among the earliest settlers were colony . men of culture and of earnestness , men who , like Alexander Whitaker , " a scholar , a graduate , and a preach- er , " devoted ...
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... principles had led to their exile , first from Eng- land to Holland , ( 1608 , ) and then from Holland to America . Obtaining a grant from the London Company , they set sail for Virginia , but landed to the north of that province , in ...
... principles had led to their exile , first from Eng- land to Holland , ( 1608 , ) and then from Holland to America . Obtaining a grant from the London Company , they set sail for Virginia , but landed to the north of that province , in ...
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... principle of harsh and arbitrary measures . It transformed the exiles into persecutors , many of whose companions found themselves again exiles , escaping from the mother country only to be thrust out from the sandy coasts and chilly ...
... principle of harsh and arbitrary measures . It transformed the exiles into persecutors , many of whose companions found themselves again exiles , escaping from the mother country only to be thrust out from the sandy coasts and chilly ...
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... principles . These narrowed its sphere and stiffened its action . An early vote declared no one a freeman under the charter who was not a church member , ( 1631. ) As but a small proportion of the inhabitants were church members , there ...
... principles . These narrowed its sphere and stiffened its action . An early vote declared no one a freeman under the charter who was not a church member , ( 1631. ) As but a small proportion of the inhabitants were church members , there ...
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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.