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 253 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
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 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 185 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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 301 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Page 255 - That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been [duly] convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years.
Page 260 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
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 315 - The governor shall not lay any taxes or ympositions upon the colony, their lands or commodities, other way than by the authority of the general assembly, to be levyed and ymployed as the said assembly shall appoynt.