The History of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeClaxton, 1872 - 273 pagine |
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Pagina 194 - Besides framing the constitution, the convention had another duty to perform. The act of congress, providing for the admission of the new State into the Union, offered certain propositions to the people. These were, first, that section sixteen in each township, or, where that section had been disposed of, other contiguous and equivalent lands, should be granted to the inhabitants for the use of schools ; second, that thirty-eight sections of land, where salt-springs had been found, of which one township...
Pagina 150 - We. have beaten the enemy twice under separate commanders. Wt cannot expect the same good fortune always to attend us. The Americans are now led by a chief who never sleeps : the night and the day are alike to him. And during all the time that he has been marching upon our villages, notwithstanding the watchfulness of our young men, we have never been able to surprise him. Think well of tt. There is something whispers me, it would be prudent to listen to his offers of peace.
Pagina 227 - SIR — The general has just received your letter of this date, informing him that you had thought proper to disobey the order issued from this office, and delivered to you this morning. It appears that the information which dictated the order was incorrect ; and as you did not receive it in the night, as was expected, it might have been proper that you dhould have reported the circumstance and your situation, before you proceeded to its execution.
Pagina 194 - ... to be chosen by the people for the same term, but could not hold office more than six years out of eight. His power was limited to granting reprieves and pardons, calling extra sessions of the Legislature, and temporarily filling such vacancies in state offices as might occur during its non-session. The judicial power was vested in a Supreme Court, courts of Common Pleas, consisting of a president judge and county judges, and in justices of the peace ; the judges to be elected by joint ballot...
Pagina 245 - Such, happily, was not the case, and on the 24th of December the treaty of Ghent was signed by the representatives of England and the United States. This treaty was followed the next year by treaties with various Indian tribes throughout the West and Northwest, and quiet was again restored in this part of the new world.
Pagina 147 - Miami and au Glaize Rivers, your late grounds and possessions, and to preserve you and your distressed and hapless women and children from danger and famine, during the present fall and ensuing winter. The arm of the United States is strong and powerful, but they love mercy and kindness more than war and desolation. And, to remove any doubts or apprehensions of danger to the persons of the deputies whom you may appoint to meet this army, I hereby pledge my sacred honor for their safety and return,...
Pagina 148 - No longer shut your eyes to your true interest and happiness, nor your ears to to this overture of peace. But, in pity to your innocent women and children, come and prevent the further effusion of your blood ; let them experience the kindness and friendship of the United States of America, and the invaluable blessings of peace and tranquility.* Grand Glaize, August 13th, 1794.
Pagina 209 - The prisoner then walked slowly to his camp, partook of a dinner of jerked venison, washed and arrayed himself in his best apparel, and afterwards painted his face. His dress was very rich — his hair gray, and his whole appearance graceful and commanding.
Pagina 191 - ... of speculators who were, and who wished to be, the retailers of land to the poorer classes of the community. His proposition became a law, and was hailed as the most beneficent act that Congress had ever done for the territory. It put it in the power of every industrious man, however poor, to become a freeholder, and to lay a foundation for the future support, and comfort of his family.
Pagina 34 - It is needless to eulogize the sagacity which dictated both these proposals : " and why," the orator concluded, " why, said the Great Spirit indignantly to the Delaware,— do you suffer these dogs in red clothing to enter your country, and take the land I have given you ? Drive them from it ! — Drive them ! — When you are in distress I will help you...