Rise of the New West, 1819-1829, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1905 - 366 pages |
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... INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS ( 1818-1824 ) XIV . THE TARIFF OF 1824 ( 1820-1824 ) . XV . THE ELECTION OF 1824 ( 1822-1825 ) . XVI . PRESIDENT ADAMS AND THE OPPOSITION ( 1825- 1827 ) . CHAP . 13 XVII . INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FOREIGN TRADE.
... INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS ( 1818-1824 ) XIV . THE TARIFF OF 1824 ( 1820-1824 ) . XV . THE ELECTION OF 1824 ( 1822-1825 ) . XVI . PRESIDENT ADAMS AND THE OPPOSITION ( 1825- 1827 ) . CHAP . 13 XVII . INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FOREIGN TRADE.
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Frederick Jackson Turner. CHAP . 13 XVII . INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FOREIGN TRADE ( 1825-1829 ) . . XVIII . REACTION TOWARDS STATE ( 1816-1829 ) . SOVEREIGNTY PAGE 286 299 XIX . THE TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA ...
Frederick Jackson Turner. CHAP . 13 XVII . INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FOREIGN TRADE ( 1825-1829 ) . . XVIII . REACTION TOWARDS STATE ( 1816-1829 ) . SOVEREIGNTY PAGE 286 299 XIX . THE TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA ...
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... internal improvements ; chapter viii . , on The Far West , goes with the trapper into the mountains and then across the continent to Cali- fornia and to Oregon , which were included in the ambitions of the buoyant westerner . Chapters ...
... internal improvements ; chapter viii . , on The Far West , goes with the trapper into the mountains and then across the continent to Cali- fornia and to Oregon , which were included in the ambitions of the buoyant westerner . Chapters ...
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... internal improvements , the efforts of other sections to deprive the cotton states of their profits for the benefit of an industrial development in which they did not share , deep discontent pre- vailed . With but slight intermission ...
... internal improvements , the efforts of other sections to deprive the cotton states of their profits for the benefit of an industrial development in which they did not share , deep discontent pre- vailed . With but slight intermission ...
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... internal improvements and capable of imposing a tax upon slave property in order to promote their ends . In Virginia , in 1825 , for example , the western men com- plained that twenty counties in the upper country , with over two ...
... internal improvements and capable of imposing a tax upon slave property in order to promote their ends . In Virginia , in 1825 , for example , the western men com- plained that twenty counties in the upper country , with over two ...
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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.