Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper, 1902 |
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... South sea . Nor was the dread we had of the sharp hunger through which we should have to pass ( as in verity we did , throughout the seventeen days ' journey of which the natives spoke ) sufficient to hin- der us . During all that time ...
... South sea . Nor was the dread we had of the sharp hunger through which we should have to pass ( as in verity we did , throughout the seventeen days ' journey of which the natives spoke ) sufficient to hin- der us . During all that time ...
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... South ; The Creoles of Louisiana ; The Negro Question ; Strange True Stories of Louisiana ; John March , Southerner , etc. Cable , ATLANTIC . See ATLANTIC TELE- GRAPH . Cables , OCEAN . The first permanent Atlantic cable was laid in ...
... South ; The Creoles of Louisiana ; The Negro Question ; Strange True Stories of Louisiana ; John March , Southerner , etc. Cable , ATLANTIC . See ATLANTIC TELE- GRAPH . Cables , OCEAN . The first permanent Atlantic cable was laid in ...
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... south- east coast of South America , where he discovered the rivers De la Plata and Paraguay . His employers were disappoint- ed , and , resigning his office into the hands of the Spanish monarch , he returned to England in his old age ...
... south- east coast of South America , where he discovered the rivers De la Plata and Paraguay . His employers were disappoint- ed , and , resigning his office into the hands of the Spanish monarch , he returned to England in his old age ...
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... South Carolina to the verge of civil war in 1832 ; and it made that State foremost and most conspicuous in inaugu- rating the Civil War . He died in Wash- ington , D. C. , March 31 , 1850. His remains Calhoun , JOHN CALDWELL , statesman ...
... South Carolina to the verge of civil war in 1832 ; and it made that State foremost and most conspicuous in inaugu- rating the Civil War . He died in Wash- ington , D. C. , March 31 , 1850. His remains Calhoun , JOHN CALDWELL , statesman ...
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... South against the people of the North . The Union , so strong in the hearts of the people , was shaken to its cen- tre . Mr. Clay again appeared as a compromiser for the sake of peace and union . It seemed that some compromise was need ...
... South against the people of the North . The Union , so strong in the hearts of the people , was shaken to its cen- tre . Mr. Clay again appeared as a compromiser for the sake of peace and union . It seemed that some compromise was need ...
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Página 338 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
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Página 311 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Página 337 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Página 338 - All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this constitution, as under the confederation. 2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be...
Página 214 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela...