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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...cy; all men have aided it by their exertions: those who have intentionally la- bored in its cause, and those who have served it unwittingly; those who... ...n its course or abandoned to its lawless passions, has overthrown whatever crossed its path, and has shaken all that it has not destroyed. Its empire ... ... of his conquerors by the use of insult and provocation. *See “Histoire de la Louisiane,” by Lepage Dupratz; Charlevoix, “Histoire de la Nouvelle Fran... ...berty you are to stand with the hazard of your very lives and what- soever crosses it is not authority, but a distemper thereof. This liberty is maint... ...ion, and of these by far the largest part exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In New England, Pennsylvania,...

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...f the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, havi... ...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...hree hundred and sixty miles above the mouth)—about fifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...d had better fortune. In 1673 Joliet the merchant, and Marquette the priest, crossed Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 9 the country and reached... ... the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wisconsin. Marquette had solemnly contracted, on the feast of the Immacul... ...ater ends here, abreast this bunch of China trees; now we cross over.” So he crossed over. He gave me the wheel once or twice, but I had no luck. I ei...

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......................................................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ................................ ...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ent’s Square, as it is generally called. The technical name is, I believe, La Fayette Square. The houses round it are few in number—not exceeding thre... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ... addition to his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquer... ...bably increased by the general darkness of the weather. The Monongahela is crossed by a fine bridge, and on the other side the ground rises at once, a... ...assive under personal misfortune! Going from Louisville up to St. Louis, I crossed the Ohio River and passed through parts of Indiana and of Illinois,...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ... a railroad, the first I had ever seen, except the one on which I had just crossed the summit of the Alleghany Mountains, and over which canal boats w... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...or a portion of the time while travelling abroad. Of- ten since a fear has crossed my mind lest that book might turn up yet, and fall into the hands o... ...HAPTER VII THE MEXICAN WAR—THE BATTLE OF PALO ALTO—THE BATTLE OF RESACA DE LA PALMA—ARMY OF INVASION—GEN- ERAL TAYLOR—MOVEMENT ON CAMARGO WHILE GENERA... ...e compass at times within a few miles. Formerly the river ran by Resaca de la Palma, some four or five miles east of the present channel. The old bed ... ...e winter of 1860-1. We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. These generally knew I...

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