A Brief Topical Survey of United States HistoryD. C. Heath & Company, 1908 |
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amendments American Anti-Federalists appointed army Articles of Confederation Atlantic attempt Bank became bill Boston British Carolina CHAPTER cities citizens Civil claim coin colonial days colonists commerce Constitution Continental Congress court debts Democratic Discoveries and Explorations Dutch duties early election electors Emancipation Proclamation England English established favor Federal Federalist Florida foreign France French and Indian Gadsden Purchase gold granted growth House immigration important invention issued Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier king labor Lake land legislation liberty Lincoln manufacturing ment Mexico Middle colonies Mississippi Missouri Compromise nations North America OCEAN Oregon Boundary Dispute party peace person Philadelphia political population possession President principal protection question Republican Revolution Second Continental Congress secure Senate settled settlement settlers silver slavery slaves South Southern Spain Spanish Strict Constructionist tariff taxes territory Thomas Jefferson tion to-day treaty Union United vessels Vice-President Virginia Washington West Whigs York
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Página 173 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 16 - Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Página 170 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 175 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 90 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Página 174 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace : From my heart I give thee joy — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Página 16 - Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. DELAWARE. — George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. MARYLAND. — James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. VIRGINIA. — John Blair, James Madison, Jr. NORTH CAROLINA. — William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. SOUTH CAROLINA. — John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. GEORGIA. — William...
Página 51 - Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have, said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Página 3 - Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. (11) The Vice-President -of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. (12) The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore in the absence of the Vice-Presideut, or when he shall exercise the office...
Página 16 - JONATHAN DAYTON. Pennsylvania. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THOMAS MIFFLIN, ROBERT MORRIS, GEORGE CLYMER, THOMAS FITZSIMONS, JARED INGERSOLL, JAMES WILSON, GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. Delaware. GEORGE READ, GUNNING BEDFORD, JR., JOHN DICKINSON, RICHARD BASSETT, JACOB BROOM. Maryland. JAMES M'HENRY, DANIEL OF ST.