A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America: Forming a Complete Emigrant's Directory Through Every Part of the Republic: Particularising the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Illinois; and the Territories of Alabama and Missouri ... East and West Florida, Michigan, and North-western ... Likewise, an Account of the British Possessions in Upper and Lower Canada ...Edwards & Knibb, 1820 - 751 páginas |
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... and interesting description of the whole of the Western States and Territories ; comprising an immense tract of land of nearly one thousand millions of acres , rendered peculiarly interesting from the numerous 6 PREFACE .
... and interesting description of the whole of the Western States and Territories ; comprising an immense tract of land of nearly one thousand millions of acres , rendered peculiarly interesting from the numerous 6 PREFACE .
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... nearly 200 acres of land . But to enable the reader , at one view , to form a correct judgment upon this import- ant branch of political economy , the following table is subjoined : - America . Inhab , per sqr . mile . Connecticut ...
... nearly 200 acres of land . But to enable the reader , at one view , to form a correct judgment upon this import- ant branch of political economy , the following table is subjoined : - America . Inhab , per sqr . mile . Connecticut ...
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... nearly south - east , about 400 miles , to the Gulf of Mexico . Having thus described the rivers forming the outskirts , as it were , of the United States ' Territory , it now re- mains to take a view of the Missouri and Mississippi ...
... nearly south - east , about 400 miles , to the Gulf of Mexico . Having thus described the rivers forming the outskirts , as it were , of the United States ' Territory , it now re- mains to take a view of the Missouri and Mississippi ...
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... nearly 300 miles long ; opposite Cleveland , in the state of Ohio , it is about sixty miles broad , to the east- ward it is above seventy . The average breadth is from fifty to sixty miles ; and its medium depth forty to 120 feet . The ...
... nearly 300 miles long ; opposite Cleveland , in the state of Ohio , it is about sixty miles broad , to the east- ward it is above seventy . The average breadth is from fifty to sixty miles ; and its medium depth forty to 120 feet . The ...
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... nearly fifty miles in length , and gradually narrows till it termin- ates in the River Sorel . Lake Champlain , except the nar- row parts at either end , is in general very deep ; in many places sixty and seventy , and in some even 100 ...
... nearly fifty miles in length , and gradually narrows till it termin- ates in the River Sorel . Lake Champlain , except the nar- row parts at either end , is in general very deep ; in many places sixty and seventy , and in some even 100 ...
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Página 130 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Página 65 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 66 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 65 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Página 97 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Página 66 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 44 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 428 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Página 97 - ... which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Página 66 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him.