The United States of America: A Pictorial History of the American Nation from the Earliest Discoveries and Settlements to the Present Time, Volume 5Imperial Publishing Company, 1908 |
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Page 133
... areas of lands and waters within that district shall pass into the pos- session , use and control of the United States without cost or charge . Damages arising from the building of the canal shall be ascertained by a joint commission ...
... areas of lands and waters within that district shall pass into the pos- session , use and control of the United States without cost or charge . Damages arising from the building of the canal shall be ascertained by a joint commission ...
Page 171
... area of our terrritory has grown from 827,844 square miles in 1800 to 3,025,600 in 1900 , and the population . from 5,308,483 to 75,693,724 . At the opening of the nineteenth century , Virginia ranked first in population , and at the ...
... area of our terrritory has grown from 827,844 square miles in 1800 to 3,025,600 in 1900 , and the population . from 5,308,483 to 75,693,724 . At the opening of the nineteenth century , Virginia ranked first in population , and at the ...
Page 175
... area is hardly forty square miles and its population less than twenty thousand . The surface is hilly and poor and water is very scarce . The chief town on the island , Charlotte Amalie , is obliged to depend upon tanks for its supply ...
... area is hardly forty square miles and its population less than twenty thousand . The surface is hilly and poor and water is very scarce . The chief town on the island , Charlotte Amalie , is obliged to depend upon tanks for its supply ...
Page 178
... area of the three islands was 127 square miles and the population 30,000 , of whom the whites form fifteen per cent . , the rest being mulattoes and negroes . The islands are the home of miscegenation , intermarriage between the whites ...
... area of the three islands was 127 square miles and the population 30,000 , of whom the whites form fifteen per cent . , the rest being mulattoes and negroes . The islands are the home of miscegenation , intermarriage between the whites ...
Page 190
... area of the new republic is 47,000 square miles , with a coast line of 2,200 miles . This is not quite so large as the State of New York . Its natural resources are great and no doubt will be rapidly developed . The mountains abound ...
... area of the new republic is 47,000 square miles , with a coast line of 2,200 miles . This is not quite so large as the State of New York . Its natural resources are great and no doubt will be rapidly developed . The mountains abound ...
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Page 344 - ... can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
Page 333 - Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 340 - Union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations ; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves...
Page 345 - And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity ; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Page 341 - They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
Page 329 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 339 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. " The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprize, and precious materials of manufacturing industry.
Page 347 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations; I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my...
Page 324 - Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I.
Page 189 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.