America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected with the Present Social, Political, Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial State of the Country, Its Laws and Customs, Together with a Review of the Policy of the United States that Led to the War of 1812, and Peace of 1814--the "right of Search," the Texas and Oregon Questions, Etc. Etc, Volume 1 |
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... miles , is fre- quently a ten days ' or fortnight's work , of the most disagreeable kind ; the scenery is exceedingly flat , of one continued sameness , and by no means inter- esting . Independent of these several opportunities , there ...
... miles , is fre- quently a ten days ' or fortnight's work , of the most disagreeable kind ; the scenery is exceedingly flat , of one continued sameness , and by no means inter- esting . Independent of these several opportunities , there ...
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... miles , within the first week or eight days , though the weather was exceedingly moderate , and winds variable . The time , after a while , began to hang heavily and wearisome on our hands , as we had neither the usual resources of a ...
... miles , within the first week or eight days , though the weather was exceedingly moderate , and winds variable . The time , after a while , began to hang heavily and wearisome on our hands , as we had neither the usual resources of a ...
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... miles on the American coast ; off Charleston it is probably sixty miles ; off Cape Hatteras , near ninety ; and off the Capes of Virginia , from one hundred to one hundred and twenty ; and extends to about one hundred and sixty leagues ...
... miles on the American coast ; off Charleston it is probably sixty miles ; off Cape Hatteras , near ninety ; and off the Capes of Virginia , from one hundred to one hundred and twenty ; and extends to about one hundred and sixty leagues ...
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... proceeding on her way . But our captain seldom felt any anxiety on this head ; and , if that a half quarter of a mile might bring us within hailing distance of a strange sail , would rather avoid , than encourage such STRANGE SAIL. ...
... proceeding on her way . But our captain seldom felt any anxiety on this head ; and , if that a half quarter of a mile might bring us within hailing distance of a strange sail , would rather avoid , than encourage such STRANGE SAIL. ...
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... miles . On the following morning the high lands of Nave - Sink , or as they are more commonly called " Never - Sink , " greeted our arrival and bid us welcome . The wind was fair , blowing dead upon the land ; the ship going near ten ...
... miles . On the following morning the high lands of Nave - Sink , or as they are more commonly called " Never - Sink , " greeted our arrival and bid us welcome . The wind was fair , blowing dead upon the land ; the ship going near ten ...
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Page 169 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 86 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 377 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.
Page 97 - That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Page 76 - Eureka, who shall hold office for the term of four years from the date of his appointment.
Page 169 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder...
Page 376 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 377 - While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.
Page 377 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.
Page 376 - In Europe the lands are either cultivated, or locked up against the cultivator. Manufacture must therefore be resorted to, of necessity, not of choice, to support the surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman.