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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... passed in 1797 , erected into one district , for the purpose of temporary govern- ment ; but subject to division when circumstances should render it necessary . It has since been divided into states and territories : a description of ...
... passed in 1797 , erected into one district , for the purpose of temporary govern- ment ; but subject to division when circumstances should render it necessary . It has since been divided into states and territories : a description of ...
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... three miles above the falls , the bed of the river becomes very rocky , and the waters are violently agitated by passing over successive rapids ; so that were a boat by any accident to be carried 18 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
... three miles above the falls , the bed of the river becomes very rocky , and the waters are violently agitated by passing over successive rapids ; so that were a boat by any accident to be carried 18 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
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... passing to the sea by New Or- leans , and the Red River through the river Atchafalaya . But in one of these numerous bends which the Missis- sippi has formed , it appears to have broken into the bed of the Red River , and they have made ...
... passing to the sea by New Or- leans , and the Red River through the river Atchafalaya . But in one of these numerous bends which the Missis- sippi has formed , it appears to have broken into the bed of the Red River , and they have made ...
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... Passing by Narraganset and some other bays in the state of Rhode Island , we enter Long Island sound . This sound is a kind of inland sea , from three to twenty - five miles broad , and about 140 miles long , dividing Long Island from ...
... Passing by Narraganset and some other bays in the state of Rhode Island , we enter Long Island sound . This sound is a kind of inland sea , from three to twenty - five miles broad , and about 140 miles long , dividing Long Island from ...
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... passing by , sticks his claws between their shoulders , and remains there un- alterably firm . It is in vain that the large terrified ani- mal takes to flight , the carcajou having taken possession of his post , nothing can drive him ...
... passing by , sticks his claws between their shoulders , and remains there un- alterably firm . It is in vain that the large terrified ani- mal takes to flight , the carcajou having taken possession of his post , nothing can drive him ...
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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.