Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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Page 94
... agent to dispose of the said slave for the best price he can obtain , and take bonds from the purchaser for the amount of sale , and for carrying her out of the United States agreeable to law . The full force of these records will be ...
... agent to dispose of the said slave for the best price he can obtain , and take bonds from the purchaser for the amount of sale , and for carrying her out of the United States agreeable to law . The full force of these records will be ...
Page 96
... the act of 1793 to carry off by force the mother and child . There is no evidence that Beeson at any time represented the agent appointed by the governor to sell and transport the woman , or 96 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .
... the act of 1793 to carry off by force the mother and child . There is no evidence that Beeson at any time represented the agent appointed by the governor to sell and transport the woman , or 96 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .
Page 97
... agent for this Commonwealth to apply for the said negro , bring her to the county of Wood , and retain her until the further order of the executive . This demand was in the form of a letter , which reads as follows : RICHMOND , VIRGINIA ...
... agent for this Commonwealth to apply for the said negro , bring her to the county of Wood , and retain her until the further order of the executive . This demand was in the form of a letter , which reads as follows : RICHMOND , VIRGINIA ...
Page 99
... agent on the part of this State to make of your excellency the said demand . I have therefore to request that you will be pleased to cause the said slave to be arrested and delivered up to the said Jacob Beeson , according to the ...
... agent on the part of this State to make of your excellency the said demand . I have therefore to request that you will be pleased to cause the said slave to be arrested and delivered up to the said Jacob Beeson , according to the ...
Page 195
... agent at Prairie du Chien , went on foot from Rock Island to the mouth of the Wisconsin , and reported that the Indians of the region had " mostly abandoned the chase , except to furnish themselves with meat , and turned their attention ...
... agent at Prairie du Chien , went on foot from Rock Island to the mouth of the Wisconsin , and reported that the Indians of the region had " mostly abandoned the chase , except to furnish themselves with meat , and turned their attention ...
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Page 172 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Page 174 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people— and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going— it is not to be wondered that they should then rouse themselves and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected...
Page 235 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 224 - The people would occupy without grants. They have already so occupied in many places. You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another.
Page 259 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 224 - ... collectors and comptrollers, and of all the slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and in no long time must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime and to suppress as an evil the command and blessing of Providence,
Page 370 - We are too well acquainted with the liberality of sentiment distinguishing your nation, to imagine, that difference of religion will prejudice you against a hearty amity with us. You know that the transcendant nature of freedom elevates those who unite in her cause, above all such low-minded infirmities.
Page 173 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, •with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 361 - Majesty has likewise agreed that the navigation of the said River in its whole breadth from its source to the Ocean shall be free only to his Subjects, and the Citizens of the United States, unless he should extend this privilege to the Subjects of other Powers by special convention.
Page 166 - having endeavored to subvert the constitution of this kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and People, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.