Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Band 43The Society, 1910 |
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... governments should give their serious concern , per- haps it would be the cause of peace . War might be called the supreme ... government , for everything con- cerning human welfare , if the preparations for war could be brought within a ...
... governments should give their serious concern , per- haps it would be the cause of peace . War might be called the supreme ... government , for everything con- cerning human welfare , if the preparations for war could be brought within a ...
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... government , the Executive Department , knew noth- ing about it . On his return , says Benton , he solicited and ob- tained orders to continue the survey across the continent to the point reached in 1841 by Commander Wilkes , who had ...
... government , the Executive Department , knew noth- ing about it . On his return , says Benton , he solicited and ob- tained orders to continue the survey across the continent to the point reached in 1841 by Commander Wilkes , who had ...
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... government might offer by establishing military posts on the road , — these were the objects of the Frémont expeditions . In estimating the results of opening the Trail we must not forget that the road to Oregon was also the road to ...
... government might offer by establishing military posts on the road , — these were the objects of the Frémont expeditions . In estimating the results of opening the Trail we must not forget that the road to Oregon was also the road to ...
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... Government in time of War would be sunk . " 1 The House voted to survey and lay out a line of towns , each six miles square between . these two points . There were differences between the House and Council over some details of the Act ...
... Government in time of War would be sunk . " 1 The House voted to survey and lay out a line of towns , each six miles square between . these two points . There were differences between the House and Council over some details of the Act ...
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... Government for Oregon , and I deeply regret that Governments , based on principles of conces- sion and compromise on the slavery question , had not also been estab- lished over New Mexico and California , Had this been done , the ...
... Government for Oregon , and I deeply regret that Governments , based on principles of conces- sion and compromise on the slavery question , had not also been estab- lished over New Mexico and California , Had this been done , the ...
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Seite 243 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 104 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Seite 245 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Seite 249 - Our northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
Seite 12 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Seite 249 - The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out, in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it...
Seite 310 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Seite 243 - ... he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Seite 330 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Seite 496 - Legislature, abrogating the supreme law which requires us to " do unto others as we would they should do unto us...