Washington County, and the Early Settlement of Ohio: Being the Centennial Historical Address, Before the Citizens of Washington County

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P.G. Thomson, 1877 - 83 páginas

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Página 36 - These little republics would be the main strength of the great one. We owe to them the vigor given to our revolution in its commencement in the Eastern States, and by them the Eastern States were enabled to repeal the embargo in opposition to the Middle, Southern and Western States, and their large and lubberly division into counties which can never be assembled.
Página 23 - Beginning on the bank of the Ohio River, where the western boundary line of Pennsylvania crosses it, and running with that line to Lake Erie ; thence along the southern shore of said lake to the mouth of the...
Página 17 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Página 23 - Laurens ; thence with a line to be drawn westerly to the portage of that branch of the Big Miami, on which the fort stood that was taken by the French in 1752, until it meets the road from the lower Shawanese town to the Sandusky ; thence south to the Scioto river, thence with that river to the mouth, and thence up the Ohio river to the place of beginning...
Página 8 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Página 35 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Página 32 - In the mean time, and on the 7th of January, 1803, the Senate had passed a resolution directing a committee to inquire " whether any, and, if any, what legislative measures may be necessary for admitting the State of Ohio into the Union, and for extending to that State the laws of the United States.
Página 13 - ... Ohio River and Lake Erie into consideration, or be in a situation to decide thereon, the going to Philadelphia to negotiate the business with any of its members, or committee to whom the petition may be referred, is a measure none of the petitioners will think of undertaking. The part...
Página 36 - O yes,' that a court is opened for the administration of even-handed justice, to the poor and the rich, to the guilty and the innocent, without respect of persons ; none to be punished without a trial by their peers, and then in pursuance of the laws and evidence in the case.
Página 12 - That your petitioners are informed that that tract of country, bounded north on Lake Erie, East on Pennsylvania, southeast and south on the river Ohio, west on a line beginning at that part of the Ohio which lies twenty-four miles west of the river Scioto, thence running north on a meridian line till it intersects with the river Miami, which falls into Lake Erie, thence down the middle of that river to the lake...

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