A New History of the United States: The Greater Republic; Embracing the Growth and Achievements of Our Country from the Earliest Days of Discovery and Settlement to the Present Eventful Year ...Butler & Alger, 1899 - 647 páginas |
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... Leading Fea- tures - The Ordinance of 1787 - Formation of Parties - Election of the First President and Vice- President . . 131 143 CHAPTER VIII . ADMINISTRATIONS OF WASHINGTON , JOHN ADAMS , AND JEFFERSON - 1789-1809 , Washington - His ...
... Leading Fea- tures - The Ordinance of 1787 - Formation of Parties - Election of the First President and Vice- President . . 131 143 CHAPTER VIII . ADMINISTRATIONS OF WASHINGTON , JOHN ADAMS , AND JEFFERSON - 1789-1809 , Washington - His ...
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... Leading the Texans ' Charge , 393 The Smithsonian Institute . ⚫ 263 General Philip H. Sheridan . 395 Gold Washing - The Sluice . 264 Lincoln Entering Richmond . 398 Gold Washing - he Cradle . 265 The Desperate Extremity of the ...
... Leading the Texans ' Charge , 393 The Smithsonian Institute . ⚫ 263 General Philip H. Sheridan . 395 Gold Washing - The Sluice . 264 Lincoln Entering Richmond . 398 Gold Washing - he Cradle . 265 The Desperate Extremity of the ...
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... were successful , and Eli Whitney with his cotton - gin had set free the leading industry of the South and enabled it to begin that remarkable career which proved so momentous in American history , since to it we owe.
... were successful , and Eli Whitney with his cotton - gin had set free the leading industry of the South and enabled it to begin that remarkable career which proved so momentous in American history , since to it we owe.
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... leading question before the world , and which can no longer be settled by the nations of Europe as an affair of their own , with which the United States has no concern . This new position taken by the United States promises to be ...
... leading question before the world , and which can no longer be settled by the nations of Europe as an affair of their own , with which the United States has no concern . This new position taken by the United States promises to be ...
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... leading powers were England , France , and Holland , and all of them soon began a scramble for new lands on the other side of the Atlantic . Spain , hav- ing been the first , had a great advantage , and she was wise enough to use all ...
... leading powers were England , France , and Holland , and all of them soon began a scramble for new lands on the other side of the Atlantic . Spain , hav- ing been the first , had a great advantage , and she was wise enough to use all ...
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Página 165 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Página 389 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Página 166 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 548 - Whereas, the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Página 582 - The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion.
Página 581 - Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
Página 582 - ... individual, of every kind, of either Government, or of its citizens or subjects, against the other Government, that may have arisen since the beginning of the late insurrection in Cuba and prior to the exchange of ratifications of the present treaty, including all claims for indemnity for the cost of the war. The United States will adjudicate and settle the claims of its citizens against Spain relinquished in this article.
Página 582 - The Spaniards residing in the territories over which Spain by this treaty cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be subject in matters civil as well as criminal to the jurisdiction of the courts of the country wherein they reside, pursuant to the ordinary laws governing the same; and they shall have the right to appear before such courts, and to pursue the same course as citizens of the country to which the courts belong.
Página 588 - Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its surf-beat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud...
Página 548 - First— That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. Second— That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban...