Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volumen13The Society, 1908 - 480 páginas |
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... close his career with satisfaction who has reached the highest honors of the commonwealth . I desire to paint , as best I may in words , the por- trait of Alexander Ramsey , the governor who organized the territory , to set his picture ...
... close his career with satisfaction who has reached the highest honors of the commonwealth . I desire to paint , as best I may in words , the por- trait of Alexander Ramsey , the governor who organized the territory , to set his picture ...
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... close of the 29th Congress , while , sin- gularly enough , Henry Hastings Sibley was just entering the 30th Congress as a delegate from that terra incognita , the territory of Minnesota . Ramsey's career in Congress was signalized by ...
... close of the 29th Congress , while , sin- gularly enough , Henry Hastings Sibley was just entering the 30th Congress as a delegate from that terra incognita , the territory of Minnesota . Ramsey's career in Congress was signalized by ...
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... - onist , the conqueror , the civilizer , the Anglo - Saxon , pos- sesses the state , and the pagan is gone . What senti- mentality regrets the change ? In the period between the close of his office as 13 ALEXANDER RAMSEY .
... - onist , the conqueror , the civilizer , the Anglo - Saxon , pos- sesses the state , and the pagan is gone . What senti- mentality regrets the change ? In the period between the close of his office as 13 ALEXANDER RAMSEY .
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Minnesota Historical Society. In the period between the close of his office as ter- ritorial governor and his election as the second executive . of the state , he loyally performed every duty of a good citizen , serving one term as mayor ...
Minnesota Historical Society. In the period between the close of his office as ter- ritorial governor and his election as the second executive . of the state , he loyally performed every duty of a good citizen , serving one term as mayor ...
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... close no more . He saw twelve hundred thousand happy and prosperous people on the very land his genius had given by Indian treaties to the expanded state . He witnessed what had been done , and foresaw the unwritten triumphs of the ...
... close no more . He saw twelve hundred thousand happy and prosperous people on the very land his genius had given by Indian treaties to the expanded state . He witnessed what had been done , and foresaw the unwritten triumphs of the ...
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Página 28 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 19 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 28 - I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this, with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What...
Página 193 - He was trained in the local schools, but was early transferred to the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated in 1857.
Página 302 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined, to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Página 208 - ... depression. The message was instinct with the courage of a patriot, and exhibited the farsightedness of a great statesman. Here is the message: "I have received your telegram. I will not support the resolution. It is against your real welfare. It is also a blow at the security, peace, and rights of millions who never harmed you or your associates. My duty to the "Constitution and the laws forbids me to sustain a resolution to legalize lawlessness. The same duty rests upon you and your associates....
Página 36 - America, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of the United States of America, entitled " An act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject...
Página 73 - An act to authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and State government preparatory to their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States...
Página 38 - Not far from where we now are, a dozen framed houses, not all completed, and some eight or ten small log buildings, with bark roofs, constituted the capital of the new territory over whose destiny I had been commissioned to preside.
Página 78 - Sibley with Indian affairs, and opened the way for an important clerkship in the American Fur Company, of which John Jacob Astor, of New York, was the head. This company gathered furs and pelts from vast regions in the Northwest. Sibley's first employment was at Mackinac, then the central depot of the great fur company, second only to thn.t of the Hudson Bay Company.