History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, Volume 1Munsell & Company, 1892 - Columbus (Ohio) |
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... opened to our view , whose gentle stream , covered with drifting ice , formed a fine contrast to its umbrageous shores . We had scarcely proceeded half our journey before a bear with three cubs crossed the road at some distance before ...
... opened to our view , whose gentle stream , covered with drifting ice , formed a fine contrast to its umbrageous shores . We had scarcely proceeded half our journey before a bear with three cubs crossed the road at some distance before ...
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... opened the breast of the wretched vic- tim with a sharp razor of itztli— a volcanic substance hard as flint , — and inserting his hand in the wound , tore out the palpitating heart . The minister of death , first holding this up toward ...
... opened the breast of the wretched vic- tim with a sharp razor of itztli— a volcanic substance hard as flint , — and inserting his hand in the wound , tore out the palpitating heart . The minister of death , first holding this up toward ...
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... opened many years since , and was found to contain the bones of a large man . These crumbled in pieces soon after being exposed to the air . It is possible that by uncovering the ditch of this fort some relics of the extinct race that ...
... opened many years since , and was found to contain the bones of a large man . These crumbled in pieces soon after being exposed to the air . It is possible that by uncovering the ditch of this fort some relics of the extinct race that ...
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... opened . Crossing to the east side of the Scioto , and beginning at the southern boundary of the county , we find no mounds until we reach the plateau between the Scioto and the Big Walnut , two miles south of Shadeville , when three ...
... opened . Crossing to the east side of the Scioto , and beginning at the southern boundary of the county , we find no mounds until we reach the plateau between the Scioto and the Big Walnut , two miles south of Shadeville , when three ...
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... opened an office for the sale of lands west of the Ohio . Congress intervened by driving out the settlers , and the crisis became acute . At this juncture General Philip Schuyler announced in Congress that New York had executed to the ...
... opened an office for the sale of lands west of the Ohio . Congress intervened by driving out the settlers , and the crisis became acute . At this juncture General Philip Schuyler announced in Congress that New York had executed to the ...
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acres Alum Creek appointed arrived Assembly bank borough Broad Street building built cabin canal Captain cents Chillicothe Cincinnati Colonel Columbus corner Creek deer Delaware dollars drygoods early east elected erected Erie February feet in diameter fifty forest four Franklin County Franklinton George Governor ground Harrison High Street horse hundred Indians Iroquois James Kilbourn John John Kerr Joseph Kentucky Kerr killed Lake land legislature Licking Lucas Sullivant March McElvain Meigs Messrs Miami miles mounds mouth Muskingum Neil Ohio River Ohio State Journal opposite passed permanent seat Pickaway Pickaway County pioneer present road Ross County Samuel Sandusky says Scioto River Scioto Valley seat of government senate settlement Shawnees side stone T. G. Jones Tavern territory thence Thomas thousand tion took town Township trees tribes Upper Sandusky Virginia wilderness William woods Worthington Wyandots yeas Zanesville
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Page 627 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights, and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Page 97 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 625 - That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Page 618 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Page 110 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 621 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea,. west and northwest...
Page 627 - The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse with any other European potentate than the first discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed ; and this was a restriction which those European potentates imposed on themselves, as well as...
Page 32 - Hither the inhabitants of the capital flocked, to witness the consummation of the ceremony. As the sad procession wound up the sides of the pyramid, the unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. On the summit he was received by six priests, whose long and matted locks flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls of mystic import. They led him to the sacrificial...
Page 625 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure...
Page 321 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said State, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass...