Rise of the New West, 1819-1829Harper & brothers, 1906 - 366 pages |
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... opened up the country and pre- pared the way ; the Tennessee and Kentucky set- tlements are described in Howard's Preliminaries of the Revolution ; Van Tyne's American Revolu- tion goes into the earliest western governments ...
... opened up the country and pre- pared the way ; the Tennessee and Kentucky set- tlements are described in Howard's Preliminaries of the Revolution ; Van Tyne's American Revolu- tion goes into the earliest western governments ...
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... opened to us other prospects and suggested other duties . We our- selves were changed , and the whole world was changed . . . . Other nations would produce for them- selves , and carry for themselves , and manufacture for themselves ...
... opened to us other prospects and suggested other duties . We our- selves were changed , and the whole world was changed . . . . Other nations would produce for them- selves , and carry for themselves , and manufacture for themselves ...
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... opened in the vast western wilderness a retreat , sufficiently alluring to draw them away from the land of their nativity . We have many troubles even now ; but we should have many more , if this body of foresters had remained at home ...
... opened in the vast western wilderness a retreat , sufficiently alluring to draw them away from the land of their nativity . We have many troubles even now ; but we should have many more , if this body of foresters had remained at home ...
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... opened into the Atlantic far down Virginia's coast - line . The Great Valley ran through eastern Pennsylvania , across Maryland , and , in the form of the Shenandoah Valley , made a natural highway to the interior of North Carolina ...
... opened into the Atlantic far down Virginia's coast - line . The Great Valley ran through eastern Pennsylvania , across Maryland , and , in the form of the Shenandoah Valley , made a natural highway to the interior of North Carolina ...
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... opened for traffic throughout its whole length . The decrease in transportation charges brought prosperity and a tide of population into western New York ; villages sprang up along the 1 View of the Grand Canal ( N. Y. , 1825 ) , 20 ...
... opened for traffic throughout its whole length . The decrease in transportation charges brought prosperity and a tide of population into western New York ; villages sprang up along the 1 View of the Grand Canal ( N. Y. , 1825 ) , 20 ...
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Page 158 - 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 mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 218 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 221 - I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 127 - This region, however, viewed as a frontier, may prove of infinite importance to the United States, inasmuch as it is calculated to serve as a barrier to prevent too great an extension of our population westward, and secure us against the machinations or incursions of an enemy that might otherwise be disposed to annoy us in that quarter.
Page 283 - An agreement between all the Parties represented at the Meeting, that each will guard, by its own means, against the establishment of any future European Colony within its Borders, may be found advisable.
Page 276 - While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority?
Page 209 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 213 - If there be any European power which cherishes other projects, which looks to a forcible enterprise for reducing the colonies to subjugation, on the behalf or in the name of Spain, or which meditates the acquisition of any part of them to itself, by cession or by conquest...
Page 321 - Randolph pointedly said that the bill "referred to manufactures of no sort or kind, but the manufacture of a President of the United States.
Page 215 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid, and accompany us in it. By acceding to her proposition, we detach her from the bands, bring her mighty weight into the scale of free government, and emancipate a continent at one stroke, which might otherwise linger long in doubt and difficulty.