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Página 321 - with these words: "THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country ; but he that stands it now, deserves the thanks of man and woman."
Página 154 - an act entitled, "An Act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes."
Página 65 - branches of the legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty, British merchants, and Americans trading on British capitals, speculators and holders in the
Página 154 - it is further understood and declared, That the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." On the
Página 490 - the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty as embodying the "only sound and safe solution of the Slavery question, upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole country can repose in its determined conservation of the Union, and noninterference of Congress with Slavery in the Territories
Página 157 - to a line running from the southerly extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay, after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the great Miami river, as aforesaid, thence northeast to the territorial line, and by the said territorial line to the Pennsylvania line,"
Página 157 - "an Act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed."
Página 33 - it is a strong indication of his intention, and affords just grounds of fear, that he will avail himself of such pretended breach of the Convention, in order to disengage himself and the army under him, of the obligations they are under to these United States; and that the security which these states have had
Página 491 - upon the simple ground, among others that there has been a withdrawal, in part, of a majority of the States, and further (and that, perhaps, more personal to myself,) upon the ground that I will not sit in a convention where the African Slavetrade—which is piracy by the laws of my country—is approvingly advocated."
Página 154 - north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid." The