The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal ChartersT. MacCoun, 1888 - 440 halaman |
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... held to the " Bullion Theory : " The precious metals are the only form of wealth . Not finding them in the region visited by De Soto , Spain fixed her atten- tion on regions where she had already found them ; and so intent was she on ...
... held to the " Bullion Theory : " The precious metals are the only form of wealth . Not finding them in the region visited by De Soto , Spain fixed her atten- tion on regions where she had already found them ; and so intent was she on ...
Halaman 9
... held the English colonists on the north at bay down to 1763 , when she surrendered the peninsula as the price of the Queen of the Antilles . St. Augustine , founded in 1565 , a castle rather than a colony , was the key to the positions ...
... held the English colonists on the north at bay down to 1763 , when she surrendered the peninsula as the price of the Queen of the Antilles . St. Augustine , founded in 1565 , a castle rather than a colony , was the key to the positions ...
Halaman 31
... held that in those years La Salle discovered the Ohio , descending it to the Falls at Louisville , perhaps even to the Mississippi . But this conclusion , while no doubt sound , is reached by cautious criticism of fragmentary documents ...
... held that in those years La Salle discovered the Ohio , descending it to the Falls at Louisville , perhaps even to the Mississippi . But this conclusion , while no doubt sound , is reached by cautious criticism of fragmentary documents ...
Halaman 45
... held the centre of the long line extending from Canada to Louisiana . The Wabash colony commanded that valley and the Lower Ohio . De- troit was a position so important that , securely held by the French , it practically banished from ...
... held the centre of the long line extending from Canada to Louisiana . The Wabash colony commanded that valley and the Lower Ohio . De- troit was a position so important that , securely held by the French , it practically banished from ...
Halaman 63
... held it , and intrenched them- selves well along its eastern limits , they would shut their rivals between the Alleghanies and the sea , control all the tribes of the West , and turn them , in case of war , against the English borders ...
... held it , and intrenched them- selves well along its eastern limits , they would shut their rivals between the Alleghanies and the sea , control all the tribes of the West , and turn them , in case of war , against the English borders ...
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Halaman 272 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Halaman 271 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Halaman 272 - 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.
Halaman 418 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Halaman 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Halaman 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Halaman 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Halaman 263 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Halaman 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Halaman 341 - Louis river; thence up the main channel of said river to the first rapids in the same, above the Indian village, according to Nicollet's map; thence due south to the main branch of the river St.