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Halaman 15 - Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them — a disciplined and populous race Heaped with long toil the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Halaman 17 - They waste us — ay — like April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away ; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day, — Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the western sea.
Halaman 14 - Are they here The dead of other days? - and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer.
Halaman 96 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be adopted or made, shall have force in all parts of the district, and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed from time to time, as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature.
Halaman 15 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone ; All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods, The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay...
Halaman 120 - If any man hauls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Halaman 34 - The grant purports to be made by chiefs of the Sioux of the Plain, and one of the chiefs uses the sign of a serpent, and the other a turtle, purporting that their names are derived from those animals. " The land lies on the east side of the Mississippi.
Halaman 15 - The red man came — The roaming hunter tribes, warlike and fierce, And the mound-builders vanished from the earth. The solitude of centuries untold Has settled where they dwelt.
Halaman 33 - ... the sole liberty of hunting and fishing on land not planted or improved by the said Jonathan, his heirs and assigns ; to which we have affixed our respective seals, at the great cave, May the first, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.
Halaman 206 - BLAKELEY] were the great men of the hour. Gen. TAYLOR cannot be assailed with greater importunity for the ' loaves and fishes' than they were for news and newspapers. At length the news was known, and one glad shout resounding through the boat, taken up on shore, and echoed from our beetling bluffs and rolling hills, proclaimed that the bill for the organization of Minnesota Territory had become a law !" The long agony was over. Minnesota was a Territory, and Saint Paul was its Capital. Henceforth,...

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