A History of the United States, Volume 5Macmillan, 1921 - United States |
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... PENNSYLVANIA Newcastle And Wilkesbarre Bunburydi H I ILLINOIS Indianapolis Columbus Troy National Ohio Harrisburg Road Pittsburg Baltimore Lancaster Cincinnati Vandalia Winchesterc Vincennes R. St.Louis Kaskaskia Orio R. KENTUCK Co ...
... PENNSYLVANIA Newcastle And Wilkesbarre Bunburydi H I ILLINOIS Indianapolis Columbus Troy National Ohio Harrisburg Road Pittsburg Baltimore Lancaster Cincinnati Vandalia Winchesterc Vincennes R. St.Louis Kaskaskia Orio R. KENTUCK Co ...
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... Pennsylvania Loyalists in the year 1783. By analysis and experiment , helped by observation , McAdam found that by the use of small angular stone fragments — none of them exceeding an inch in any one dimension - spread ten inches deep ...
... Pennsylvania Loyalists in the year 1783. By analysis and experiment , helped by observation , McAdam found that by the use of small angular stone fragments — none of them exceeding an inch in any one dimension - spread ten inches deep ...
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... Pennsylvania had subscribed nearly two million dollars to the capital stock of the road companies within her limits , besides contributions that had been made by counties and towns . The construction of bridges on these roads was ...
... Pennsylvania had subscribed nearly two million dollars to the capital stock of the road companies within her limits , besides contributions that had been made by counties and towns . The construction of bridges on these roads was ...
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... Pennsylvania ( iii , 320 ) stated that one hundred weight of goods could be transported from New York City to Middleburg in central Ohio , a distance of 750 miles , all the way by water by the Hudson River and Lake Erie and by the Erie ...
... Pennsylvania ( iii , 320 ) stated that one hundred weight of goods could be transported from New York City to Middleburg in central Ohio , a distance of 750 miles , all the way by water by the Hudson River and Lake Erie and by the Erie ...
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... Pennsylvania . This traffic had centred at Pitts- burg for so long a time that at first the Pennsylvanians were disposed to minimize the dangers of impending competition through the Mohawk Valley . They may also have been deterred from ...
... Pennsylvania . This traffic had centred at Pitts- burg for so long a time that at first the Pennsylvanians were disposed to minimize the dangers of impending competition through the Mohawk Valley . They may also have been deterred from ...
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Page 537 - St. Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 429 - Their object is disunion : but be not deceived by names ; disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you really ready to incur its guilt ? If you are, on the heads of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences; on their heads be the dishonor, but on yours may fall the punishment. On your unhappy State will inevitably fall all the evils of the conflict you force upon the government of your country.
Page 420 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Page 150 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 149 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man, whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present!
Page 344 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defence of our own, which has...
Page 537 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Funcly to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 316 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Page 9 - Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to prepare and report to the Senate, at their next session, a plan for the application of such means as are within the power of Congress, to the purposes of opening roads and making canals; together with a statement of the undertakings of that nature which, as objects of public improvement, may require and deserve the aid of Government...