Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October, 1834, Volume 2 |
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... young men , who are enrolled in these companies , not only suffer much in their health from exposure to wet and cold , at all hours and in all seasons of the year , but are too apt to contract bad habits and become dissipated or ...
... young men , who are enrolled in these companies , not only suffer much in their health from exposure to wet and cold , at all hours and in all seasons of the year , but are too apt to contract bad habits and become dissipated or ...
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... young athletic man insult an old man of seventy with a degree of violence that a stout villain would not have required , and the greatest criminal would not have deserved . topics , I could perceive no indications of any tendency CHAP ...
... young athletic man insult an old man of seventy with a degree of violence that a stout villain would not have required , and the greatest criminal would not have deserved . topics , I could perceive no indications of any tendency CHAP ...
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... young , she was charged but 140 dollars for the family : -the former she had in a great measure to maintain . The fifth case occurred about eight years previously , and was that of a woman and three children . For these she had to pay ...
... young , she was charged but 140 dollars for the family : -the former she had in a great measure to maintain . The fifth case occurred about eight years previously , and was that of a woman and three children . For these she had to pay ...
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... young family , deprived of the support which she had derived from her son's industry . As reference was made to a medical man in Park Place , I called upon him , and received a very favorable account both of the boy and his poor mother ...
... young family , deprived of the support which she had derived from her son's industry . As reference was made to a medical man in Park Place , I called upon him , and received a very favorable account both of the boy and his poor mother ...
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... young family , to the pestilential climate of Africa . the fact , cruel as it is , is too true . A person , under the pretence of employing her to wash for him , had been two or three times at her house , with the ob- ject of persuading ...
... young family , to the pestilential climate of Africa . the fact , cruel as it is , is too true . A person , under the pretence of employing her to wash for him , had been two or three times at her house , with the ob- ject of persuading ...
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Page 185 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 126 - 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 186 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 235 - I give them their freedom; and I humbly and earnestly request of the legislature of Virginia a confirmation of the bequest of freedom to these servants, with permission to remain in this State, where their families and connections are, as an additional instance of the favor, of which I have received so many other manifestations in the course of my life, and for which I now give them my last, solemn, and dutiful...
Page 137 - Their views upon that point have been submitted to the people of the United States ; and the counsels by which your conduct is now directed are the result of the judgment expressed by the only earthly tribunal to which the late administration was amenable for its acts.
Page 280 - EXTREMUM hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem. pauca meo Gallo, sed quae legat ipsa Lycoris, carmina sunt dicenda : neget quis carmina Gallo ? sic tibi, cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos, Doris amara suam non intermisceat undam, incipe ; sollicitos Galli dicamus amores, dum tenera attondent simae virgulta capellae.
Page 80 - Whereas the enemies of the United States have endeavored, by every artifice in their power, to possess the Indians in general with an opinion, that it is the design of the States aforesaid, to extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country: to obviate such false...
Page 185 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 76 - Many of the tribes have already made great progress in the arts of civilized life. This desirable result has been brought about by the humane and persevering policy of the Government, and particularly by means of the appropriation for the civilization of the Indians. There have been established under the provisions of this act...
Page iii - ... government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be signal, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion. As far as experience may show errors in our establishments, we are bound to correct them; and if any practices exist...