One Hundred Years in Illinois, 1818-1918: An Account of the Development of Illinois in the First Century of Her Statehood ...Peterson, 1919 - 298 من الصفحات |
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... boats , and during the whole transaction you are to take especial care to keep the true destination of your force secret ; its suc- cess depends upon this . Orders are , therefore , given to Captain Smith to secure the two men from Kas ...
... boats , and during the whole transaction you are to take especial care to keep the true destination of your force secret ; its suc- cess depends upon this . Orders are , therefore , given to Captain Smith to secure the two men from Kas ...
الصفحة 38
... boat called The Ark , which they rowed up the Mississippi past Kaskaskia to a point on the Mis- sissippi in what is now the southern part of Mon- roe county , where they established a settlement which they named New Design . It was ...
... boat called The Ark , which they rowed up the Mississippi past Kaskaskia to a point on the Mis- sissippi in what is now the southern part of Mon- roe county , where they established a settlement which they named New Design . It was ...
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... boats which were al- lowed to float with the current down stream or going up stream were towed from the bank like a canal boat or pushed along with long poles operated from the boat . It is true that at the time of my father's birth ...
... boats which were al- lowed to float with the current down stream or going up stream were towed from the bank like a canal boat or pushed along with long poles operated from the boat . It is true that at the time of my father's birth ...
الصفحة 78
... , on seeing a number of men from south- ern Illinois getting on a boat at the lead mines late in the fall , asked them whither they were bound and he was informed they were on their way 78 ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN ILLINOIS.
... , on seeing a number of men from south- ern Illinois getting on a boat at the lead mines late in the fall , asked them whither they were bound and he was informed they were on their way 78 ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN ILLINOIS.
الصفحة 135
... his melons were disappearing , and that he had little money for them , so he picked up his reins , whipped up his team and left . We did not remain there long , being taken aboard a boat which landed us at Jefferson Bar- racks 135 WAR !
... his melons were disappearing , and that he had little money for them , so he picked up his reins , whipped up his team and left . We did not remain there long , being taken aboard a boat which landed us at Jefferson Bar- racks 135 WAR !
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الصفحة 205 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ' ' the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
الصفحة 132 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
الصفحة 132 - No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
الصفحة 202 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
الصفحة 96 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view, The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
الصفحة 202 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
الصفحة 40 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her...
الصفحة 34 - Assistance and protection against all enemies whatever, shall be afforded them; and the Commonwealth of Virginia is pledged to accomplish it. But if these people will not accede to these reasonable demands, they must feel the miseries of war, under the direction of that humanity that has hitherto distinguished Americans, and which it is expected you will ever consider as the rule of your conduct, and from which you are in no instance to depart.
الصفحة 38 - These Irish representatives of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the Puritans were in the northeast, and more than the Cavaliers were in the south.
الصفحة 9 - They brought to America no submissive love for England ; and their experience and their religion alike bade them meet oppression with prompt resistance.