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There will therefore be a competition between the Hudson and Patowmac rivers
for the residue of the commerce of all the country westward of Lake Erié , on the
waters of the lakes , of the Ohio , and upper parts of the Mississippi . To go to
New ...
There will therefore be a competition between the Hudson and Patowmac rivers
for the residue of the commerce of all the country westward of Lake Erié , on the
waters of the lakes , of the Ohio , and upper parts of the Mississippi . To go to
New ...
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that , Big - beaver , Ohio , Yohoganey , ( or Monongahela and Cheat ) and
Patowmac , and there are but two portages ; the first of which between Cayahoga
and Beaver may be removed by uniting the sources of these waters , which are
lakes ...
that , Big - beaver , Ohio , Yohoganey , ( or Monongahela and Cheat ) and
Patowmac , and there are but two portages ; the first of which between Cayahoga
and Beaver may be removed by uniting the sources of these waters , which are
lakes ...
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2500 Rivere aux Tetes boules on the east side of Lake Superior . 2000 Lakes
Huron and Superior . Lake Christinaux . 1500 Lake Assinaboes . 3000 1500
10,000 25002 1800 10,000 1 } Ontheheadsof the Mississippiandwestwardof
thatriver .
2500 Rivere aux Tetes boules on the east side of Lake Superior . 2000 Lakes
Huron and Superior . Lake Christinaux . 1500 Lake Assinaboes . 3000 1500
10,000 25002 1800 10,000 1 } Ontheheadsof the Mississippiandwestwardof
thatriver .
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Oveidas , 300 East side of Oneida Lake and head branches of 400 Susquehanna
. Tuscoròras , 200 Between the Oneidas and Onondagoes . Onondagoes , 1500
260 230 Near Onondago Lake . Cayugas , 200 Oo the Cayuga Lake near the ...
Oveidas , 300 East side of Oneida Lake and head branches of 400 Susquehanna
. Tuscoròras , 200 Between the Oneidas and Onondagoes . Onondagoes , 1500
260 230 Near Onondago Lake . Cayugas , 200 Oo the Cayuga Lake near the ...
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550 * 300 Near fort St. Joseph's and fort Detroit . On Saguinam bay of lake Huron
. On Saguinam bay of lake Huron . 400 Near Michillimackinac . 5900 250 5450
Near Michillimackinac . 400 Near fort St. Mary's on lake Superior . Several other ...
550 * 300 Near fort St. Joseph's and fort Detroit . On Saguinam bay of lake Huron
. On Saguinam bay of lake Huron . 400 Near Michillimackinac . 5900 250 5450
Near Michillimackinac . 400 Near fort St. Mary's on lake Superior . Several other ...
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Página 275 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 276 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations — entangling alliances with none ; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Página 66 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 234 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Página 170 - 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 his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 273 - A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right...
Página 172 - ... phenomenon of 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 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 277 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 275 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Página 239 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
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| Título | Notes on the State of Virginia |
| Autor | Thomas Jefferson |
| Editor | Lilly and Wait, 1832 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 12 Feb. 2008 |
| Largo | 280 páginas |
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