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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... vote unless a member of the church . A reproof in church was considered the most disgraceful penalty that could be visited upon a wrong - doer . The sermons were two , three , and sometimes four hours long , and the business of one of ...
... vote unless a member of the church . A reproof in church was considered the most disgraceful penalty that could be visited upon a wrong - doer . The sermons were two , three , and sometimes four hours long , and the business of one of ...
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... a member of church to vote or hold office . THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT . What is known in the history of England as the Commonwealth , established THE CHARTER OAK . 61 by Cromwell , came to. 60 SETTLEMENT OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES .
... a member of church to vote or hold office . THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT . What is known in the history of England as the Commonwealth , established THE CHARTER OAK . 61 by Cromwell , came to. 60 SETTLEMENT OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES .
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... voted ships , men , and money to help the mother country in the wars in which she was often involved . As early as 1651 , Parliament passed the first of the oppressive Navigation Acts , which forbade the colonies to trade with any other ...
... voted ships , men , and money to help the mother country in the wars in which she was often involved . As early as 1651 , Parliament passed the first of the oppressive Navigation Acts , which forbade the colonies to trade with any other ...
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... voting money and supplies as well as men to assist England , Parliament thought she saw a way of shouldering a large part of this burden upon the Americans . Her attempts to do so and the results therefrom properly belong to the ...
... voting money and supplies as well as men to assist England , Parliament thought she saw a way of shouldering a large part of this burden upon the Americans . Her attempts to do so and the results therefrom properly belong to the ...
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... vote money and give their sons to help in the wars which were almost solely for the benefit of the mother country . It has been shown that the intercolonial conflicts were of no advantage to the colonies which were dragged into them and ...
... vote money and give their sons to help in the wars which were almost solely for the benefit of the mother country . It has been shown that the intercolonial conflicts were of no advantage to the colonies which were dragged into them and ...
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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...