Letters from an Early Settler of TexasNew Albany tribune print., 1858 - 312 pages |
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... beautiful , " to suit the taste of a fastidious reader , it must be remembered that these letters were not written for the eye of a critic , but in that free , easy , and familiar style , with which friend addresses friend . He makes no ...
... beautiful , " to suit the taste of a fastidious reader , it must be remembered that these letters were not written for the eye of a critic , but in that free , easy , and familiar style , with which friend addresses friend . He makes no ...
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... beautiful town , situated on a high bluff , except a small portion of it , which is on the bank of the river , under a hill . I have often heard of dissipation , but I never saw it in its nakedness till I came to this place . It would ...
... beautiful town , situated on a high bluff , except a small portion of it , which is on the bank of the river , under a hill . I have often heard of dissipation , but I never saw it in its nakedness till I came to this place . It would ...
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... beautiful that is the most noble ; nor is it always in the fairest countenance that we find the most ennobling qualities of the heart . After entering Red river , we found our labors very * A * toilsome ; on account of our boat LETTERS ...
... beautiful that is the most noble ; nor is it always in the fairest countenance that we find the most ennobling qualities of the heart . After entering Red river , we found our labors very * A * toilsome ; on account of our boat LETTERS ...
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... beautiful wild flowers . The population of this part of the country consisted of two families previous to our arrival . As to the health of the place I know but little , having been here but a few days ; but not judge favorably of it ...
... beautiful wild flowers . The population of this part of the country consisted of two families previous to our arrival . As to the health of the place I know but little , having been here but a few days ; but not judge favorably of it ...
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... beautiful I have ever seen . It consists of large beauti- ful prairies , except on the water courses which are well timbered . The prairies are so large and level as to prove very deceptive to the eye . To illustrate this , I will tell ...
... beautiful I have ever seen . It consists of large beauti- ful prairies , except on the water courses which are well timbered . The prairies are so large and level as to prove very deceptive to the eye . To illustrate this , I will tell ...
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Page 254 - All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial or delay.
Page 173 - It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources (the public domain) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self-government.
Page 252 - That all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority...
Page 172 - The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
Page 270 - The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the...
Page 255 - Rights" is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate, and all laws contrary thereto, or to the following provisions, shall be void.
Page 172 - It has sacrificed our welfare to the State of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation carried on at a far distant seat of government by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue; and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms, for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution presented to the General Congress a republican...
Page 278 - ... grant, by appropriation or otherwise, any amount of money out of the treasury of the State, to any individual, on a claim, real or pretended, when the same shall not have been provided for by pre-existing law; nor employ any one in the name of the State unless authorized by preexisting law.
Page 277 - I being a citizen of this State, have not fought a duel with deadly weapons, within this State nor out of it, nor have I sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, nor have I acted as second in carrying a challenge, or aided, advised, or assisted any person thus offending, BO help me God.
Page 270 - DEPARTMENT SECTION 1. The Supreme Executive power of this State shall be vested in a Chief Magistrate who shall be styled the Governor of the State of Iowa.