Racine, Belle City of the Lakes, and Racine County, Wisconsin: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Volumen 1

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S.J. Clarke, 1916
 

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Página 44 - States: regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, Provided, that the legislative right of any State within its own limits, be within its own limits, be not infringed or violated...
Página 103 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Página 44 - States, shall be of any validity, in law or equity, unless the same be made by treaty, or convention, entered into pursuant to the constitution...
Página 45 - The United States promise to execute Such treaties and articles as may have been agreed between Spain and the tribes and nations of Indians until by mutual consent of the United States and the said tribes or nations other Suitable articles Shall have been agreed upon.
Página 62 - Menomonie river; thence through the middle of the main channel of said river to that head of said river nearest to the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line, to the middle of said lake; thence through the middle of the main channel of the Montreal river, to its mouth; thence with a direct line across Lake Superior, to where the territorial line of the United States last touches said lake northwest...
Página 45 - The President of the United States is hereby authorized to stipulate with any Indian tribes owning lands on the east side of the Mississippi, and residing thereon, for an exchange of lands, the property of the United States, on the west side of the Mississippi, in case the said tribes shall remove and settle thereon...
Página 336 - Provincial Grand Master of the provinces of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Página 456 - An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes...
Página 102 - How powerfully did we feel the energy of this organization in the case of embargo ? I felt the foundations of the government shaken under my feet "by the New England townships. There was not an individual in their States whose body was not thrown with all its momentum into action ; and although the whole of the other States were known to be in favor of the measure, yet the organization of this little selfish minority enabled it to overrule the Union.
Página 31 - When the great Chief dies, they demolish his cabin, and then raise a new mound, on which they build the cabin of him who is to replace him in this dignity, for he never lodges in that of his predecessor.

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