Maryland's Influence Upon Land Cessions to the United States, Volumen3N. Murray, publication agent, John Hopkins university, 1885 - 102 páginas |
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... route to China by ascending the Chickahominy . This charter of 1609 is the only one which we shall cite in this paper , for it was especially against the enormous claims of Virginia that Maryland raised so just and effective a pro- test ...
... route to China by ascending the Chickahominy . This charter of 1609 is the only one which we shall cite in this paper , for it was especially against the enormous claims of Virginia that Maryland raised so just and effective a pro- test ...
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... route which was afterwards taken by the unfortunate Braddock , in his expedition against the French and Indians , and which became known as Braddock's Road.3 A route was afterwards mapped out by Washington , from Cumberland over the ...
... route which was afterwards taken by the unfortunate Braddock , in his expedition against the French and Indians , and which became known as Braddock's Road.3 A route was afterwards mapped out by Washington , from Cumberland over the ...
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... route through the Mohawk valley which was after- wards taken by the Erie Canal and the New York Central Rail Road . He not only predicted the accomplishment of this line of communication with the West , but he actually explored it in ...
... route through the Mohawk valley which was after- wards taken by the Erie Canal and the New York Central Rail Road . He not only predicted the accomplishment of this line of communication with the West , but he actually explored it in ...
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... secure what I have , " writes he to Dr. Craik , July 10 , 1784. But in this statement , Washington was not quite just towards his own motives , as events show . 1 ington in 1784. A new route of portage , 84 Washington's Interest in the.
... secure what I have , " writes he to Dr. Craik , July 10 , 1784. But in this statement , Washington was not quite just towards his own motives , as events show . 1 ington in 1784. A new route of portage , 84 Washington's Interest in the.
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... route to Wheeling and Parkersburg , from which points the Baltimore and Ohio stretches it Briarean arms to the Lakes and to the Father of Waters . But we seek the beginning of all this . The first results of Washington's tour of ...
... route to Wheeling and Parkersburg , from which points the Baltimore and Ohio stretches it Briarean arms to the Lakes and to the Father of Waters . But we seek the beginning of all this . The first results of Washington's tour of ...
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Página 83 - I need not remark to you, Sir, that the flanks and rear of the United States are possessed by other powers, and formidable ones too; nor how necessary it is to apply the cement of interest to bind all parts of the Union together by indissoluble bonds, especially that part of it, which lies immediately west of us, with the middle States. For what ties, let me ask, should we have upon...
Página 91 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Página 46 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 5 - Declarations, hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being, in that Part of America called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Northward two hundred Miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea,...
Página 5 - Virginia, from the point of land called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the sea coast to the northward two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid...
Página 91 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Página 29 - ... a liberal surrender of a portion of their territorial claims, since they cannot be preserved entire without endangering the stability of the general confederacy ; to remind them how indispensably necessary it is to establish the federal union on a fixed and permanent basis, and on principles acceptable to all its respective members ; how essential to public credit and confidence...
Página 42 - 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 80 - I know the Yorkers will delay no time to remove every obstacle in the way of the other communication, so soon as the posts of Oswego and Niagara are surrendered...
Página 73 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.