Early Milwaukee: Papers from the Archives of the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee CountyThe Club, 1916 - 149 páginas |
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Página 90 - Master of long ago, namely, that "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Página 28 - Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy flight! Make me a child again just for to-night"?
Página 95 - look at my map of railroads. I have laid out Milwaukee and, if we build the first one, and get to the river first, Chicago will not dare to approach our territory. And if we build this first road to Dubuque, I will guarantee building up our Milwaukee system and then we can defy the world to come between us and this great northwest."58 Railroads, now available with the innovation of the steam engine, quickly became the preference among the wise and prudent figures of the era. Besides, their worth...
Página 100 - There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may.
Página 25 - Sellers were as reckless as buyers, for everybody was a seller, and everybody was a buyer," remarked Silas Chapman some years later.
Página 89 - How does he come at that standard? Our boundary is already extensive. Would his standard extent be violated by including the island of Orleans and the Floridas?
Página 89 - To an enquirer alarmed by such stories in 1829 Austin wrote, "in proportion to our numbers, we are as enlightened, as moral, as good, and as 'law abiding' men, as can be found in any part of the United States, and greatly more so than ever settled a frontier...
Página 92 - ... by those handling the products of the country at large. The commercial interests were the paramount objects in view by the banks then in existence and anyone having sufficient nerve to go into manufacturing, must do it on his own resources or "bust.
Página 87 - There was a large crowd of people on the pier, and I shall always look back with pleasure to seeing those joyful faces, and remember the way they received us, with shouts and cheers. As soon as we got alongside the pier we began unloading. There was a string of teams a mile in length, each awaiting their turn to load what the relief committee allowed them.
Página 120 - Under these circumstances little was known of us in the East, and perhaps less was expected of us, though our territory of 160,000 souls had been shown to have enough brain and sinew to form several regiments of stalwart men, such as those who were associated with the Sixth United States infantry in driving Black Hawk and his savage hordes beyond the Mississippi river.