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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... Present of Commerce - The great Changes preparing- Atlantic Commerce - The future of South American Commerce- The Mississippi Valley , the Isthmus Canal and Pacific Commerce . CHAPTER XIV . THE STIMULANTS TO EDUCATION SINCE THE WAR ...
... Present of Commerce - The great Changes preparing- Atlantic Commerce - The future of South American Commerce- The Mississippi Valley , the Isthmus Canal and Pacific Commerce . CHAPTER XIV . THE STIMULANTS TO EDUCATION SINCE THE WAR ...
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... PRESENT OF AMERICAN HISTORY .... 501 Early directions in Development have not been changed - Expansion and Union of American Types of Character - The American Idea and Manhood Suffrage - The free operation of Natural Law renders ...
... PRESENT OF AMERICAN HISTORY .... 501 Early directions in Development have not been changed - Expansion and Union of American Types of Character - The American Idea and Manhood Suffrage - The free operation of Natural Law renders ...
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... Present - The Certainties of the Future - Its Probabilities . PART FOURTH . THE TWO SLOPES - WEST AND EAST OF THE VALLEY . The Mississippi Valley is the Home Farm of the Anglo - American Race- How the East and West unite to promote its ...
... Present - The Certainties of the Future - Its Probabilities . PART FOURTH . THE TWO SLOPES - WEST AND EAST OF THE VALLEY . The Mississippi Valley is the Home Farm of the Anglo - American Race- How the East and West unite to promote its ...
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... Present and Future . PART FIFTH . CANADA AND ENGLAND . What America owes to England - English Vigor and Skill — The Relations of Canada and the United States . THE DOMINION OF CANADA . CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT ...
... Present and Future . PART FIFTH . CANADA AND ENGLAND . What America owes to England - English Vigor and Skill — The Relations of Canada and the United States . THE DOMINION OF CANADA . CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT ...
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... PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE DOMINION .... 712 ........ Amount of Realized Wealth - Progress of Railroads - Extent of Its Mer- chant Marine - Probable rate of Future Growth . ENGLAND . CHAPTER IV . 721 THE BRITISH ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE ...
... PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE DOMINION .... 712 ........ Amount of Realized Wealth - Progress of Railroads - Extent of Its Mer- chant Marine - Probable rate of Future Growth . ENGLAND . CHAPTER IV . 721 THE BRITISH ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE ...
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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.