Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volumen13The Society, 1908 - 480 páginas |
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... position must pay . The design of the work admitted no exception . The author can only affirm that he has been swayed by no prejudices , and was under sacred obligations to pursue the truth , as he understood it ; and that if any ...
... position must pay . The design of the work admitted no exception . The author can only affirm that he has been swayed by no prejudices , and was under sacred obligations to pursue the truth , as he understood it ; and that if any ...
Página viii
... position must pay . The design of the work admitted no exception . The author can only affirm that he has been swayed by no prejudices , and was under sacred obligations to pursue the truth , as he understood it ; and that if any preju ...
... position must pay . The design of the work admitted no exception . The author can only affirm that he has been swayed by no prejudices , and was under sacred obligations to pursue the truth , as he understood it ; and that if any preju ...
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... meas- ured more than any one of them ; and moreover , down deep in the red core of their hearts , the people loved him better than any other public man . That position he held by the grace of God , and without 25 ALEXANDER RAMSEY .
... meas- ured more than any one of them ; and moreover , down deep in the red core of their hearts , the people loved him better than any other public man . That position he held by the grace of God , and without 25 ALEXANDER RAMSEY .
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... position , and that in your hands , more than in that of any future Legislative Assembly , will be the " destinies of Minnesota . " Next in importance , toward facilitating the settlement of the territory , would rank the purchase of ...
... position , and that in your hands , more than in that of any future Legislative Assembly , will be the " destinies of Minnesota . " Next in importance , toward facilitating the settlement of the territory , would rank the purchase of ...
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... position of one of the Southern States , and the menacing attitude of others , the war already levied upon the United States by the seizure of government property by armed men professedly hostile to United States authority , demand ...
... position of one of the Southern States , and the menacing attitude of others , the war already levied upon the United States by the seizure of government property by armed men professedly hostile to United States authority , demand ...
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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.