A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and Those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System, Volume 2Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915 - Frontier and pioneer life |
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Page 598 - law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 594 - manifestly consider the several Indian nations as distinct political communities, having territorial boundaries within which their authority is exclusive. . . "The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent, political communities, retaining their original natural rights. . . The very term, 'nation,' so generally applied to them, means 'a people distinct from others'. . . The constitution
Page 542 - provided for, and bounded, the United States further guarantee to the Cherokee nation a perpetual outlet, West, and a free and unmolested use of all the country lying West of the Western boundary of the above described limits, and as far west as the sovereignty of the United States, and their right of soil extend.
Page 693 - An Act to Enable the People of the Eastern Division of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio to form a Constitution and State Government, and for other Purposes." Section 7, Article III, of the Act read:
Page 594 - applied them to the other nations of the earth; they are applied to all in the same sense. ". . . Georgia, herself, has furnished conclusive evidence that her former opinion on this subject concurred with those entertained by her sister states, and by the Government of the United States.
Page 581 - and vexations to which they would unavoidably have been subject in Alabama and Mississippi. "Humanity has often wept over the fate of the aborigines of this country, and Philanthropy has been long busily employed in devising means to avert it, but its progress has never for a moment been arrested. . . But true philanthropy
Page 369 - The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved. The morning I left New York there were not thirty persons who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour or be of the least utility; and while we were passing
Page 540 - shall never, in all future time, be embarrassed by having extended around it the lines, or placed over it the jurisdiction of a Territory or State, nor be pressed upon by the extension, in any way, of any of the limits of any existing Territory or State; ... the
Page 596 - right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves. . . "The act of the State of Georgia, under which the plaintiff in error was prosecuted is consequently void, and the judgment a nullity. . . The acts of Georgia are repugnant to the constitution, laws and treaties of the
Page 369 - from the wharf, which was crowded with spectators, I heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention.