The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, المجلد 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... Carolinas - Georgia -Alabama - Florida - Boundaries - Extent , & c . - Returns by Census of 1840 - Description of Charleston , Savannah , Mo- bile , & c . - North - western States - Ohio - Indiana - Illinois -Michigan , & c ...
... Carolinas - Georgia -Alabama - Florida - Boundaries - Extent , & c . - Returns by Census of 1840 - Description of Charleston , Savannah , Mo- bile , & c . - North - western States - Ohio - Indiana - Illinois -Michigan , & c ...
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... North - West Indian War - Carolina resists the Tariff - Compromise- Jackson re - elected - Measures against the Bank - Plan for Removal of the Indians - Seminole War - Treaty with France -Finances - State of Parties - Van Buren ...
... North - West Indian War - Carolina resists the Tariff - Compromise- Jackson re - elected - Measures against the Bank - Plan for Removal of the Indians - Seminole War - Treaty with France -Finances - State of Parties - Van Buren ...
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... north - eastern states , a con- siderable number were at one time in bondage . New York , in 1790 , had above 21,000 ... Carolina , 245,817 Tennessee , 183,059 South Carolina , 327,038 Arkansas , 19,935 Georgia , • 280,944 Missouri ...
... north - eastern states , a con- siderable number were at one time in bondage . New York , in 1790 , had above 21,000 ... Carolina , 245,817 Tennessee , 183,059 South Carolina , 327,038 Arkansas , 19,935 Georgia , • 280,944 Missouri ...
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... North Carolina , it is laid down , that " teaching slaves to read and write tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds , and to produce insur- rection and rebellion . " On this ground , the giving of such instruction , if by a negro ...
... North Carolina , it is laid down , that " teaching slaves to read and write tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds , and to produce insur- rection and rebellion . " On this ground , the giving of such instruction , if by a negro ...
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... North Carolina , Kentucky , and Tennessee ; the latter , Georgia , Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi , Arkansas , and Missouri . The Anti - Slavery Committee publish estimates , in which the number transferred in 1836 is stated to be ...
... North Carolina , Kentucky , and Tennessee ; the latter , Georgia , Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi , Arkansas , and Missouri . The Anti - Slavery Committee publish estimates , in which the number transferred in 1836 is stated to be ...
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الصفحة 355 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
الصفحة 154 - Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee—there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb : But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone...
الصفحة 141 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea...
الصفحة 154 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by...
الصفحة 139 - Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill. With all the waters of the firmament. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at thy call.
الصفحة 160 - Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know, Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow ; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.
الصفحة 149 - Celestial voices Hymn it unto our souls : according harps, By angel fingers touched when the mild stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality...
الصفحة 138 - THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain. And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
الصفحة 137 - Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
الصفحة 125 - ... by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs — we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.