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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... British enterprise , and the interest of our countrymen , who have lately and largely embarked in steam undertaking . We should certainly feel more satisfaction on board of one of these vessels , as appearing to our judgment by far the ...
... British enterprise , and the interest of our countrymen , who have lately and largely embarked in steam undertaking . We should certainly feel more satisfaction on board of one of these vessels , as appearing to our judgment by far the ...
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... British capital is said to be invested in them . They are mostly new ships , built for this express trade ; sail remarkably fast , and are com- manded by able and experienced seamen . The cabin fare from Liverpool to New York , for ...
... British capital is said to be invested in them . They are mostly new ships , built for this express trade ; sail remarkably fast , and are com- manded by able and experienced seamen . The cabin fare from Liverpool to New York , for ...
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... British ships sailing for Quebec and other ports in the British provinces , the passage money varying according to the extent or limit of the vessel's accommodation , which is usually much lower than by American ves- sels to any port in ...
... British ships sailing for Quebec and other ports in the British provinces , the passage money varying according to the extent or limit of the vessel's accommodation , which is usually much lower than by American ves- sels to any port in ...
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... British ports , the want of skill with which they are often navigated , with the frequent and lamentable sacrifice of human life , which is the consequence , should urge him to consult his own safety , rather than attempt the experiment ...
... British ports , the want of skill with which they are often navigated , with the frequent and lamentable sacrifice of human life , which is the consequence , should urge him to consult his own safety , rather than attempt the experiment ...
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... greater injury , particularly in their spars and rigging , than could result from the severest storm . There are two understood routes from the British THE GULF STREAM . 25 Channel to the northern ports 24 EFFECTS OF THE SWELL .
... greater injury , particularly in their spars and rigging , than could result from the severest storm . There are two understood routes from the British THE GULF STREAM . 25 Channel to the northern ports 24 EFFECTS OF THE SWELL .
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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.