The Countries of the Western World: The Governments and People of North, South and Central America, from the Landing of Columbus to the Present Time : Pen and Pencil Pictures of the Great Wonderlands of Our Republic ... Our Continent Beyond the States ... a Grand, Descriptive, Historical and Statistical WorkGay Bros. & Company, 1890 - 700 sidor |
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... Obtain Cuba- " The Golden Circle " -Treaties with Mexico and Great Britain - Invasion of Nicaragua - Indian Troubles - Difficulties with Great Britain-Formation of the Republican Party - The Know - Nothing Party - Exciting Political ...
... Obtain Cuba- " The Golden Circle " -Treaties with Mexico and Great Britain - Invasion of Nicaragua - Indian Troubles - Difficulties with Great Britain-Formation of the Republican Party - The Know - Nothing Party - Exciting Political ...
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... obtained . Numerous islands stand like emeralds in the surrounding blue , while looking inland the landscape is beautiful beyond description . While in a certain sense Newport is an " aristocratic " locality , it is also a favorite ...
... obtained . Numerous islands stand like emeralds in the surrounding blue , while looking inland the landscape is beautiful beyond description . While in a certain sense Newport is an " aristocratic " locality , it is also a favorite ...
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... obtained from the summits of hill - tops , extending for miles inland , and outlooks over fair sections of hill and dale . Springs of purest water abound , and bubble over on every side , often proving the source of the finest ponds ...
... obtained from the summits of hill - tops , extending for miles inland , and outlooks over fair sections of hill and dale . Springs of purest water abound , and bubble over on every side , often proving the source of the finest ponds ...
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... obtaining a “ pass . " Yet in this long narrow sand - sea there is many a green islet . There are not a few cranberry marshes , which are much nicer to look at than to walk upon . Nowhere does this acidulous berry attain higher ...
... obtaining a “ pass . " Yet in this long narrow sand - sea there is many a green islet . There are not a few cranberry marshes , which are much nicer to look at than to walk upon . Nowhere does this acidulous berry attain higher ...
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... obtained , was erected in 1803. The summit of Mount Wash- ington , the highest peak in the eastern cluster , having an altitude of 6,285 feet , was rendered accessible by a bridle path in 1819 , and by 1852 travel had grown . to an ...
... obtained , was erected in 1803. The summit of Mount Wash- ington , the highest peak in the eastern cluster , having an altitude of 6,285 feet , was rendered accessible by a bridle path in 1819 , and by 1852 travel had grown . to an ...
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Sida 561 - ... then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Sida 554 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Sida 551 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Sida 553 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Sida 461 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Sida 555 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the Congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Sida 554 - No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Sida 551 - ... 2. Every bill which shall have passed the house of representatives and the senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the president of the United States ; if he approve, he shall sign it ; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated ; who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Sida 436 - House dissenting) had declared that 'by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Sida 414 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet...