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... Maine , Representatives . Electors . 7 9 States . Georgia , Representatives . Electors 8 10 New Hampshire , 4 6 Alabama , 7 • Massachusetts , 10 12 Louisiana , Vermont , 4 6 Mississippi , 4 Rhode Island , 2 4 Tennessee , 11 13 ...
... Maine , Representatives . Electors . 7 9 States . Georgia , Representatives . Electors 8 10 New Hampshire , 4 6 Alabama , 7 • Massachusetts , 10 12 Louisiana , Vermont , 4 6 Mississippi , 4 Rhode Island , 2 4 Tennessee , 11 13 ...
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... Maine . Mich . Michigan . Mis . Mississippi . Miso . Missouri . Mountain . Maryland . bor . cap . Borough . Capital . C. H. Court House . co . County . Ct . or Con.Connecticut . Del . Delaware . D. C. mt . Md . isl . Island . II ...
... Maine . Mich . Michigan . Mis . Mississippi . Miso . Missouri . Mountain . Maryland . bor . cap . Borough . Capital . C. H. Court House . co . County . Ct . or Con.Connecticut . Del . Delaware . D. C. mt . Md . isl . Island . II ...
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... Maine , New - Hampshire , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New - Jersey , North Carolina , Georgia , the senators hold their office for one year only ; in Ohio and Tennessee for two years ; Mississippi , Alabama , Indiana ...
... Maine , New - Hampshire , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New - Jersey , North Carolina , Georgia , the senators hold their office for one year only ; in Ohio and Tennessee for two years ; Mississippi , Alabama , Indiana ...
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... Maine , 22 85 584 1,921 2,612 42,021 45,633 N. Hampshire , 310 1,237 1,547 27,215 28,762 Vermont , 13 45 206 839 1,103 25,204 26,307 Massachusetts , 22 79 438 1,207 1,746 45,875 47,621 Rhode Island , 5 17 21 81 124 1,253 1,377 ...
... Maine , 22 85 584 1,921 2,612 42,021 45,633 N. Hampshire , 310 1,237 1,547 27,215 28,762 Vermont , 13 45 206 839 1,103 25,204 26,307 Massachusetts , 22 79 438 1,207 1,746 45,875 47,621 Rhode Island , 5 17 21 81 124 1,253 1,377 ...
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... Maine , 96,540 151,719 228,705 298,335 399,955 501,793 N. Hampshire , 141,899 183,762 214,360 244,161 269,328 284,574 Vermont , 85,416 154,465 217,713 235,764 280,652 291,948 Massachusetts , 378,717 423,245 472,040 523,287 610,408 ...
... Maine , 96,540 151,719 228,705 298,335 399,955 501,793 N. Hampshire , 141,899 183,762 214,360 244,161 269,328 284,574 Vermont , 85,416 154,465 217,713 235,764 280,652 291,948 Massachusetts , 378,717 423,245 472,040 523,287 610,408 ...
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Page 33 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
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Page 29 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 29 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 38 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Page 96 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Page 95 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!
Page 95 - Its breadth in the middle, is about 60 feet, but more at the ends, and the thickness of the mass at the summit of the arch, about 40 feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone.
Page 96 - The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, , that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.
Page 152 - Brule in a direct line to the center of the channel between Middle and South Islands, in the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the head waters of the Montreal river, as marked upon the survey made by Captain Cramm; thence down the main channel of the Montreal river to the middle of Lake Superior; thence through the center of Lake Superior to the mouth of the St.