Rise of the New West, 1819-1829, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1905 - 366 pages |
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... COMMERCE AND IDEALS ( 1820- 23 VIII . THE FAR WEST ( 1820-1830 ) ... 678 84 96 III IX . THE CRISIS OF 1819 AND ITS RESULTS ( 1819- 1820 ) · x . XI . XIT 1210 · 134 · 149 . 134 · 172 . 199 137 • · 224 65 • • 236 245 • 265 THE MISSOURI ...
... COMMERCE AND IDEALS ( 1820- 23 VIII . THE FAR WEST ( 1820-1830 ) ... 678 84 96 III IX . THE CRISIS OF 1819 AND ITS RESULTS ( 1819- 1820 ) · x . XI . XIT 1210 · 134 · 149 . 134 · 172 . 199 137 • · 224 65 • • 236 245 • 265 THE MISSOURI ...
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... commerce , southern questions of nearness to Cuba , and west- ern questions of Latin - American neighbors . Chap- ters xiii . and xvii . describe the efforts by internal improvements to help all the states , and especially to bind the ...
... commerce , southern questions of nearness to Cuba , and west- ern questions of Latin - American neighbors . Chap- ters xiii . and xvii . describe the efforts by internal improvements to help all the states , and especially to bind the ...
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... commerce . The expansion of cotton- 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 ...
... commerce . The expansion of cotton- 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 ...
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... commerce fitted out by her capital and her ships sought the harbor of New York . Great as was New England's interest in the com- mercial policy of the United States , the manufact- ures of the section rose to such importance in the ...
... commerce fitted out by her capital and her ships sought the harbor of New York . Great as was New England's interest in the com- mercial policy of the United States , the manufact- ures of the section rose to such importance in the ...
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... commerce and navigation to manufactures . Besides the textile mills of Rhode Island and Connecticut , the Merrimac mills grew rapidly around Lowell , Massachusetts ; the water- powers of New Hampshire became the sites of factory towns ...
... commerce and navigation to manufactures . Besides the textile mills of Rhode Island and Connecticut , the Merrimac mills grew rapidly around Lowell , Massachusetts ; the water- powers of New Hampshire became the sites of factory towns ...
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Page 3 - Europe, it was obvious there would spring up in her circle of nations a revived and invigorated spirit of trade, and a new activity in all the business and objects of civilized life. Hereafter, our commercial gains were to be earned only by success in a close and intense competition. Other nations would produce for themselves, and carry for themselves, and manufacture for themselves, to the full extent of their abilities. The crops of our plains would no longer sustain European armies, nor our ships...
Page 211 - 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.
Page 106 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 154 - 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 279 - 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 163 - Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States in this Union shall be excluded from the enjoyment of any of the privileges and immunities to which such citizen is entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 205 - 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 209 - 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 129 - the western limits of the republic should be drawn, and the statue of the fabled god Terminus should be raised upon its highest peak, never to be thrown down.
Page 197 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for the tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purposes of the United British and American nations.