A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America: Forming a Complete Emigrant's Directory Through Every Part of the Republic: Particularising the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Illinois; and the Territories of Alabama and Missouri ... East and West Florida, Michigan, and North-western ... Likewise, an Account of the British Possessions in Upper and Lower Canada ... |
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... fertile , and more than 700 people are settled upon it . The Broad Lake is nearly fifty miles in length , and gradually narrows till it termin- ates in the River Sorel . Lake Champlain , except the nar- row parts at either end , is in ...
... fertile , and more than 700 people are settled upon it . The Broad Lake is nearly fifty miles in length , and gradually narrows till it termin- ates in the River Sorel . Lake Champlain , except the nar- row parts at either end , is in ...
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... fertile . The inhabitants of this ele- vated district are uncommonly tall and powerful ; it be- ing rare to see a man among them who is not six feet high ; and they entertain a high opinion of their own superiority in point of bodily ...
... fertile . The inhabitants of this ele- vated district are uncommonly tall and powerful ; it be- ing rare to see a man among them who is not six feet high ; and they entertain a high opinion of their own superiority in point of bodily ...
Page 43
... fertile on the mountains , the soil is light and thin , but rich in the valleys between the ridges . Beyond the mountains , in the valleys of the Ohio , Mississippi , and Missouri , there are vast tracts uncommonly rich and fertile ...
... fertile on the mountains , the soil is light and thin , but rich in the valleys between the ridges . Beyond the mountains , in the valleys of the Ohio , Mississippi , and Missouri , there are vast tracts uncommonly rich and fertile ...
Page 78
... fertile ; so that those who are straitened and embarrassed in the large cities , have only to fall back into the country , and become industrious yeomen , and they will readily provide ample sustenance for themselves , and lay a broad ...
... fertile ; so that those who are straitened and embarrassed in the large cities , have only to fall back into the country , and become industrious yeomen , and they will readily provide ample sustenance for themselves , and lay a broad ...
Page 104
... is very fatiguing to force one's way so as to make any progress . The soil of these immense plains is often as deep and fertile as that of the best bottoms . sterling would suffice for 640 acres : so that for 104 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
... is very fatiguing to force one's way so as to make any progress . The soil of these immense plains is often as deep and fertile as that of the best bottoms . sterling would suffice for 640 acres : so that for 104 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
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Page 130 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Page 65 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 66 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Page 65 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Page 97 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Page 66 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 44 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Page 428 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Page 97 - ... which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Page 66 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him.