Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History ...Ambrose Print. Company, 1920 - Tennessee |
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... Georgia- The State of Georgia vs. Samuel A. Worcester .. CHAPTER 14. Cherokees - Treaty of New Eschota - The Great Removal - General Scott's Proclamation and Letters - Death of John Ross - Eulogy - Sequoya and Cherokee Alphabet- Re ...
... Georgia- The State of Georgia vs. Samuel A. Worcester .. CHAPTER 14. Cherokees - Treaty of New Eschota - The Great Removal - General Scott's Proclamation and Letters - Death of John Ross - Eulogy - Sequoya and Cherokee Alphabet- Re ...
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... Georgia , North Carolina , South Carolina , and other Atlantic states , by way of Knoxville to Nashville , over which the stream of population began to flow to such an extent , that it was confidently expected at that time that the new ...
... Georgia , North Carolina , South Carolina , and other Atlantic states , by way of Knoxville to Nashville , over which the stream of population began to flow to such an extent , that it was confidently expected at that time that the new ...
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... way of South Carolina or Georgia . He gave out that he was going to England , but I do not believe him . Among things that you may safely do , will be to keep up my consequence 82 ANDREW JACKSON AND EARLY TENNESSEE HISTORY.
... way of South Carolina or Georgia . He gave out that he was going to England , but I do not believe him . Among things that you may safely do , will be to keep up my consequence 82 ANDREW JACKSON AND EARLY TENNESSEE HISTORY.
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... Georgia almost as far down as Atlanta , one - half or more of South Carolina , and the mountain section of North Carolina . This territory constituted the original claim of the Cherokees . When their final cession was made and they ...
... Georgia almost as far down as Atlanta , one - half or more of South Carolina , and the mountain section of North Carolina . This territory constituted the original claim of the Cherokees . When their final cession was made and they ...
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Page 107 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and 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 108 - 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.
Page 107 - The legislatures of those districts, or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the Unite'd States in Congress assem-bled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Page 107 - Federal debts, contracted, or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 141 - Legislature; provided, that no person be eligible or' qualified to act as a representative, unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years, and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the district three years, and in either case shall likewise hold in his own right, in...
Page 115 - President of the United States of America — To all who shall see these presents Greeting. Know Ye that reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism...
Page 106 - No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments in the said territory.
Page 370 - 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 103 - ... parts, the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have, in equal parts among them, their deceased...
Page 247 - The Cherokee Nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.