American Facts: Notes and Statistics Relative to the Government, Resources, Engagements, Manufactures, Commerce, Religion, Education, Literature, Fine Arts, Manners and Customs of the United States of AmericaWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 292 sider |
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... look much like the over - crowded country they tell us about in books . If the grass hadn't been quite so smooth , and the trees so trim and regular , I might have imagined myself in Ohio again.— They must have plenty of farming land ...
... look much like the over - crowded country they tell us about in books . If the grass hadn't been quite so smooth , and the trees so trim and regular , I might have imagined myself in Ohio again.— They must have plenty of farming land ...
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... look at your slavery . " Yet my noble young State , with its million and a half of people , has no more to do with slavery or its continuance than the Emperor of China . F. They do talk very absurdly , especially as some six or eight ...
... look at your slavery . " Yet my noble young State , with its million and a half of people , has no more to do with slavery or its continuance than the Emperor of China . F. They do talk very absurdly , especially as some six or eight ...
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... look these difficulties in the face , and offer any reasonable , practicable remedies for them , instead of idle declamation and abuse ; the direful problem of its removal would stand a better chance of an early solution . Meanwhile ...
... look these difficulties in the face , and offer any reasonable , practicable remedies for them , instead of idle declamation and abuse ; the direful problem of its removal would stand a better chance of an early solution . Meanwhile ...
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... look dignified enough for the bench , and yet they will bow and smile , and thank you for a shilling . I have travelled tens of thousands of miles in the United States , seen all sorts of things -attended church in forty strange places ...
... look dignified enough for the bench , and yet they will bow and smile , and thank you for a shilling . I have travelled tens of thousands of miles in the United States , seen all sorts of things -attended church in forty strange places ...
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... look at the country , saw a steam - boat landing , a rail - road car , a bar room , and a stage - house dinner- the usual materials . And what had he omitted ? In New Haven , he might have seen a flourishing institu- tion of learning ...
... look at the country , saw a steam - boat landing , a rail - road car , a bar room , and a stage - house dinner- the usual materials . And what had he omitted ? In New Haven , he might have seen a flourishing institu- tion of learning ...
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American Facts: Notes and Statistics Relative to the Government, Resources ... George Palmer Putnam Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1845 |
American Facts: Notes and Statistics Relative to the Government, Resources ... George Palmer Putnam Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1845 |
American Facts: Notes and Statistics Relative to the Government, Resources ... George Palmer Putnam Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1845 |
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Side 145 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Side 143 - United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper, in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Side 141 - United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint...
Side 143 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Side 137 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Side 136 - Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one; Connecticut five; New York six; New Jersey four; Pennsylvania eight; Delaware one; Maryland six; Virginia ten; North Carolina five; South Carolina five; and Georgia three.
Side 141 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Side 142 - ... 4. The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Side 91 - Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
Side 137 - ... Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members ; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.