The States and Territories of the Great West ...: Their Geography, History, Resources ...Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856 - 352 sider |
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Side vii
... Michilimackinac Arrival of Joliet with orders to explore the Mississippi - Prayers and thanksgiving for the favors conferred on them - Preparation and outfit -- The Canadian canoe . CHAPTER III . Their 28 EXPLORATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI ...
... Michilimackinac Arrival of Joliet with orders to explore the Mississippi - Prayers and thanksgiving for the favors conferred on them - Preparation and outfit -- The Canadian canoe . CHAPTER III . Their 28 EXPLORATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI ...
Side ix
... Michilimackinac Fall of Venango Condition of the frontier set- tlements Colonel Henry Bouquet His victory near Fort Pitt- A council with the chiefs Their apology for the war Bouquet's reply - Orders the Indians to bring in all their ...
... Michilimackinac Fall of Venango Condition of the frontier set- tlements Colonel Henry Bouquet His victory near Fort Pitt- A council with the chiefs Their apology for the war Bouquet's reply - Orders the Indians to bring in all their ...
Side 28
... Michilimackinac Arrival of Joliet with orders to explore the Mississippi - Prayers and thanksgiving for the favors conferred on them - Preparation and outfit— The Canadian canoe . THE region of country denominated the West has been ...
... Michilimackinac Arrival of Joliet with orders to explore the Mississippi - Prayers and thanksgiving for the favors conferred on them - Preparation and outfit— The Canadian canoe . THE region of country denominated the West has been ...
Side 37
... Michilimackinac . Following along the shore , he entered an opening to the west , and reached the head of Green Bay . The season was advancing . But a council had to be called . So runners were dispatched to the hunting - grounds ...
... Michilimackinac . Following along the shore , he entered an opening to the west , and reached the head of Green Bay . The season was advancing . But a council had to be called . So runners were dispatched to the hunting - grounds ...
Side 47
... Michilimackinac , was founded in the summer of 1672 . And it was while engaged in laying the foundation of that mission that Marquette received the joyful intelli- gence that the government was preparing an expedition to the Mississippi ...
... Michilimackinac , was founded in the summer of 1672 . And it was while engaged in laying the foundation of that mission that Marquette received the joyful intelli- gence that the government was preparing an expedition to the Mississippi ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 256 - That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Side 157 - No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Side 157 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Side 157 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Side 343 - ... if any person taking such oath shall swear falsely in the premises, he shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury, and shall forfeit the money which he may have paid for said...
Side 127 - Through an aperture which afforded me a view of the area of the fort I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.
Side 295 - There are often found beneath the water pieces of copper, all formed, and of the weight of ten and twenty pounds. I have seen them many times in the hands of the savages...
Side 295 - On the 19th of August [1765] we reached the mouth of the river Ontonagan, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village; and at three leagues above a fall, at the foot of which sturgeon were at this season so abundant that a month's subsistence for a regiment could have been taken in a few hours.
Side 336 - If any person shall entice, decoy or carry away out of this territory any slave belonging to another, with intent to deprive the owner thereof of the services of such slave, or with intent to...
Side 341 - That from and after the passage of this act, every person being the head of a family, or widow, or single man, over the age of twenty-one years, and being a citizen of the United States, or having filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen, as required by the naturalization laws...