Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 2Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1828 - Pennsylvania |
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... , & c . & c . Signed on behalf of the Committee of Ways and Means . Harrisburg , March 1 , 1815 . JACOB BUCHER , Chairman , ter county , Pennsylvania , for a simple and effectual 1828. ] 13 COMMISSIONERS ' RETURNS . 301208522 3 ...
... , & c . & c . Signed on behalf of the Committee of Ways and Means . Harrisburg , March 1 , 1815 . JACOB BUCHER , Chairman , ter county , Pennsylvania , for a simple and effectual 1828. ] 13 COMMISSIONERS ' RETURNS . 301208522 3 ...
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... march of human industry treads gently over their surface , and silently proclaims the civilization of the west . The howl of the retreating wolf , and the midnight shriek of the panther , are usurped by the morning song of birds ! Such ...
... march of human industry treads gently over their surface , and silently proclaims the civilization of the west . The howl of the retreating wolf , and the midnight shriek of the panther , are usurped by the morning song of birds ! Such ...
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... March 3. Snow fell near two feet deep last night , and yesterday , which has not been known for some years . December 21. River is very full of ice , though se- veral vessels came up with it ; no arrivals or clear- ances mentioned till ...
... March 3. Snow fell near two feet deep last night , and yesterday , which has not been known for some years . December 21. River is very full of ice , though se- veral vessels came up with it ; no arrivals or clear- ances mentioned till ...
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... March 4. Saturday last quantities of codfish taken just off the capes . December . Entries and clearances . 1736. January 6. River is fast , and full of ice . February 5. Arrivals . 25. Two whales killed at Cape May . April 22. Hail ...
... March 4. Saturday last quantities of codfish taken just off the capes . December . Entries and clearances . 1736. January 6. River is fast , and full of ice . February 5. Arrivals . 25. Two whales killed at Cape May . April 22. Hail ...
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... March 18. On Friday night we had a violent N. E. snow storm , which did considerable damage to the vessels at the wharves , and probably on the coast . This is the first mention of snow . Arrivals and clearances continue through the ...
... March 18. On Friday night we had a violent N. E. snow storm , which did considerable damage to the vessels at the wharves , and probably on the coast . This is the first mention of snow . Arrivals and clearances continue through the ...
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Page 339 - Is the self-protecting energy of this nation so helpless that there exists in the political institutions of our country no power to counteract the bias of this foreign legislation; that the growers of grain must submit to this exclusion from the foreign markets of their produce; that the shippers must dismantle their ships, the trade of the North stagnate at the wharves, and the manufacturers starve at their looms, while the whole people shall pay tribute to foreign industry to be clad in a foreign...
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Page 342 - Congress has already been invited, and which may occupy their further and deliberate discussion, will be the provision to be made for taking the fifth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.
Page 339 - More just and more generous sentiments will. I trust, prevail If the tariff adopted at the last session of Congress shall be found, by experience, to bear oppressively upon the interests of any one section of the Union, it ought to be, and I Cannot doubt will be, so modified as to alleviate its burden. To the voice of just complaint...