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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... was born , and whose father was born on the same day and in the same year as Abraham Lincoln . By JOHN MCLEAN , M. D. Peterson Linotyping Company CHICAGO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 911590 ASTOR , LENOX AND 1919 One Hundred Years.
... was born , and whose father was born on the same day and in the same year as Abraham Lincoln . By JOHN MCLEAN , M. D. Peterson Linotyping Company CHICAGO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 911590 ASTOR , LENOX AND 1919 One Hundred Years.
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... Fathers found it necessary , to seek a more congenial habi- tation . The analogy between the Pilgrims and the Scotch dissenters is remarkable in that both sought relief from a common oppressor ; both fled to near - by countries - the ...
... Fathers found it necessary , to seek a more congenial habi- tation . The analogy between the Pilgrims and the Scotch dissenters is remarkable in that both sought relief from a common oppressor ; both fled to near - by countries - the ...
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... father , John McLean , was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary War . The battle of Guilford Court House was fought near the home of my ancestors , and the story has come down to us of how on that occasion the men of our neighborhood went ...
... father , John McLean , was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary War . The battle of Guilford Court House was fought near the home of my ancestors , and the story has come down to us of how on that occasion the men of our neighborhood went ...
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... father be- fore him . He is now in France , in the service of his country , where , I am confident , he and the other American sons of Scotland , including my only son and five of my nephews , will acquit themselves in a way which will ...
... father be- fore him . He is now in France , in the service of his country , where , I am confident , he and the other American sons of Scotland , including my only son and five of my nephews , will acquit themselves in a way which will ...
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... father was nine years of age , moved with his family to " the Illinois country , " as it was known , for rea- sons and under circumstances which will be ex- plained hereafter . Some of our family remained in North Carolina , where their ...
... father was nine years of age , moved with his family to " the Illinois country , " as it was known , for rea- sons and under circumstances which will be ex- plained hereafter . Some of our family remained in North Carolina , where their ...
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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.