Rise of the New West, 1819-1829Harper & brothers, 1906 - 366 pages |
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... planting transformed the energies of the south , ex- tended her activity into the newer regions of the Gulf , and gave a new life to the decaying institu- tion of slavery . From all the older sections , but especially from the south and ...
... planting transformed the energies of the south , ex- tended her activity into the newer regions of the Gulf , and gave a new life to the decaying institu- tion of slavery . From all the older sections , but especially from the south and ...
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... planter , travelling in New England in the early thirties , " is not apparent a hundredth part of the abject squalid poverty that our State presents . " " 2 The morale of New England was distinctive . Puritanism had founded the section ...
... planter , travelling in New England in the early thirties , " is not apparent a hundredth part of the abject squalid poverty that our State presents . " " 2 The morale of New England was distinctive . Puritanism had founded the section ...
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... planters , so long restrained by the Indian line , broke through the bar- riers and spread over the newly ceded lands.4 The accompanying table shows the progress of this crop : It is evident from the figures that tidewater South ...
... planters , so long restrained by the Indian line , broke through the bar- riers and spread over the newly ceded lands.4 The accompanying table shows the progress of this crop : It is evident from the figures that tidewater South ...
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... planters under the Virginia dynasty had ruled the nation . But now , when the centre of power within the section passed from the weakening hands of Virginia to those of South Carolina , the aggressive leader of the Cotton Kingdom , the ...
... planters under the Virginia dynasty had ruled the nation . But now , when the centre of power within the section passed from the weakening hands of Virginia to those of South Carolina , the aggressive leader of the Cotton Kingdom , the ...
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... planters of these states from the small farmers of the up - country . This population of the interior had entered the region in the course of the second half of the eighteenth century . Scotch - Irishmen and Ger- mans passed down the ...
... planters of these states from the small farmers of the up - country . This population of the interior had entered the region in the course of the second half of the eighteenth century . Scotch - Irishmen and Ger- mans passed down the ...
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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.