Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volumen13The Society, 1908 - 480 páginas |
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... questions about a bank , a tariff , and the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands , seem to us , at this distant day , to be trivial . But politics were intense , the excitement great , and all were politicians , even the ...
... questions about a bank , a tariff , and the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands , seem to us , at this distant day , to be trivial . But politics were intense , the excitement great , and all were politicians , even the ...
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... question , with a potency which subordi- nated all other political ideas , was now " sovereign of the ascendant . " Hitherto , in territorial politics , the Demo- crats held undisputed sway . On the 29th of March , 1855 , the opponents ...
... question , with a potency which subordi- nated all other political ideas , was now " sovereign of the ascendant . " Hitherto , in territorial politics , the Demo- crats held undisputed sway . On the 29th of March , 1855 , the opponents ...
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... questions of public policy , ever committed so few errors of judgment . His name should be recorded among the heralds of empire , as the grandest among the founders and statesmen of Min- nesota . He died in the maturity of his years ...
... questions of public policy , ever committed so few errors of judgment . His name should be recorded among the heralds of empire , as the grandest among the founders and statesmen of Min- nesota . He died in the maturity of his years ...
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... question of new compro- mises . # It is therefore clear in my opinion that the nation must vindicate itself and establish again obedience to the constitu- tional agreements and compromises , through all the length and breadth of the ...
... question of new compro- mises . # It is therefore clear in my opinion that the nation must vindicate itself and establish again obedience to the constitu- tional agreements and compromises , through all the length and breadth of the ...
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... question then agitating the country , he distinguished himself for the clearness of his views and the force and eloquence with which they were presented . When Franklin Pierce became president , in 1853 , he appointed Colonel Gorman ...
... question then agitating the country , he distinguished himself for the clearness of his views and the force and eloquence with which they were presented . When Franklin Pierce became president , in 1853 , he appointed Colonel Gorman ...
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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.