The Mississippi Valley, and Prehistoric Events: Giving an Account of the Original Formation and Early Condition of the Great Valley ; of Its Vegetable and Animal Life ; of Its First Inhabitants, the Mound Builders, Its Mineral Treasures and Agricultural Developments ; All from Authentic Sources |
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... interest ? A brilliant and durable pros- perity must have an extraordinary cause ; and a region that has reacted with such happy effect on the character and destinies of a great nation must be worthy of close study . That study will ...
... interest ? A brilliant and durable pros- perity must have an extraordinary cause ; and a region that has reacted with such happy effect on the character and destinies of a great nation must be worthy of close study . That study will ...
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... interest . Accumulated causes , in our day , hurry into effects ; industrial and commercial forces have become ... interests is active and strong . We may therefore believe that the beneficent re - action of the Great Valley on the ...
... interest . Accumulated causes , in our day , hurry into effects ; industrial and commercial forces have become ... interests is active and strong . We may therefore believe that the beneficent re - action of the Great Valley on the ...
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... Interest - Can Intelligence and Science cease to Develop ? -The Securities furnished by the Past and the Present - The ... interests . CHAPTER I. THE PACIFIC SLOPE - HOW IT WAS FORMED ..... .543 The Great Extent of the Rocky Mountain ...
... Interest - Can Intelligence and Science cease to Develop ? -The Securities furnished by the Past and the Present - The ... interests . CHAPTER I. THE PACIFIC SLOPE - HOW IT WAS FORMED ..... .543 The Great Extent of the Rocky Mountain ...
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... interests had wasted the resources of church and state . These new openings for energy gradually relieved the deadly stress of conflict between nations and classes , and changed destruc- tive forces into agents of progress and ...
... interests had wasted the resources of church and state . These new openings for energy gradually relieved the deadly stress of conflict between nations and classes , and changed destruc- tive forces into agents of progress and ...
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... interest and curiosity of men will not be sufficiently investigated and cleared up to fully satisfy that curiosity . The outlines of what science has revealed of the past of one of the most important regions of the earth , are given in ...
... interest and curiosity of men will not be sufficiently investigated and cleared up to fully satisfy that curiosity . The outlines of what science has revealed of the past of one of the most important regions of the earth , are given in ...
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Page 280 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 279 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Page 281 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Page 280 - There shall be formed in the said Territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same...
Page 289 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; To establish a...
Page 280 - St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 280 - No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Page 276 - Previous to the organization of the General Assembly the Governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers in each county or township as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same.
Page 278 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected...
Page 281 - 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 labor or service as aforesaid.