Lives of the Governors of the State of New YorkDerby and Miller, 1851 - 826 halaman |
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Adams administration adopted advocated Albany Ambrose Spencer amendment American approved assembly bank became bill British bucktails Buren canal candidate caucus Champlain canals character citizens Clintonians colonies commenced committee Congress consideration constitution contest convention council of appointment defence delegates desired duties election electors eloquence Erastus Root father favor federal federalists feeling former friends George Clinton Governor Clinton Governor Throop Governor Tompkins Hammond honor important influence interest Jackson Jefferson Jonas Platt Judge Spencer justice Lake latter legislative legislature Lewis Lewisites Livingston Madison majority measures ment militia Nathan Sanford never nomination occasion opinion opponents opposed opposition passed patriotic politician popular position president presidential question recommended reëlection regard republican party resolution respect Rufus King Samuel Young Schenectady secure Senate speech success talents thousand Throop tion took treaty United vote Washington winter Witt Clinton Yates York York legislature
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Halaman 419 - protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us alL May it be among the dispensations of his providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways be ways of
Halaman 419 - I may hope that somewhat of the same cheering approbation will be found to attend upon my path. For him, I but express, with my own, the wishes of all, that he may yet long live to enjoy the
Halaman 92 - in the horrors of slavery. Consider, that from the earliest ages of the world, religion, liberty, and reason, have been bending their course towards the setting sun. The holy gospels are yet to be preached to these western regions; and we have the highest reason to believe that the Almighty will not
Halaman 288 - the erection of a suitable edifice for a monitorial high school, in the county town. I can conceive of no reasonable objection to the adoption of a measure so well calculated to raise the character of our schoolmasters, and to double the powers of our artisans, by giving them a scientific education.
Halaman 620 - WHICH IT HAS BEEN PROPOSED. Because, while admitting the purity and the patriotism of all from whom it is my misfortune to differ, I think all legislative compromises radically wrong and essentially vicious. They involve the surrender of the exercise of judgment and
Halaman 87 - any person, drunk or sober. the least expression of a wish for a separation, or a hint that such a thing would be advantageous to America.¿ * Mr. Jay
Halaman 93 - things of you—we believe and are persuaded that you will do your duty like men, and cheerfully refer your cause to the great and righteous Judge. If success crown your efforts, all the blessings of freemen will be your reward; if you fall in the contest, you will be happy with God in heaven !“* The
Halaman 225 - is every reason to believe, that this remarkable ridge was the ancient boundary of this great lake. The gravel with which it is covered was deposited there by the waters; and the stones everywhere indicate, by their shape, the abrasion and agitation produced by that element All along the
Halaman 225 - of the western rivers and lakes, there are small mounds or heaps of gravel, of a conical form, erected by the fish for the protection of their spawn; these fish-banks are found in a state that cannot be mistaken, at the foot of the ridge, on the side towards the lake; on the opposite side none have been discovered.
Halaman 92 - if deaf to all the calls of liberty, virtue, and religion; if forgetful of the magnanimity of their ancestors, and the happiness of their children; if neither the examples nor the success of other nations—the dictates of reason and of nature; or the great duties they owe to their