Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains to the Mouth of the Columbia River: Made During the Years 1845 and 1846Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906 - 311 pàgines |
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appearance arrived ascended bank Bear river bluff bottom California camp Cascade Cascade range cattle Clatsop Clatsop Plains Columbia river covered with grass creek crossing Dalles day we traveled distance dollars eight miles emigrants encamped Falls families feet fifteen miles fifty five miles fork Fort Hall Fort Vancouver four miles Frémont grazing ground groves H. H. Bancroft half hill horses Hudson's Bay Company Indians Joel Palmer journey land Lewis river miles brought miles in width mission Missouri morning Mount Hood mouth night Oregon city Oregon Territory pack Palmer party passed plains Platte prairie provisions rain ravine reached ridge road rock rocky route running Sandy settlement side six miles snow soil spring branch stream thence three miles timber trade trail tribe twelve miles valley volume xxi volume xxviii wagons Wallawalla Whitman massacre Whitman's Willamette Willamette valley Yam-hill
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Pàgina 300 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ; and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Pàgina 300 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians ; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent...
Pàgina 302 - The governor and all other civil officers under this state, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office, but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, profit or trust, under this state. The party, whether convicted or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
Pàgina 300 - The inhabitants of the said territory, shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Pàgina 300 - The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall, from time to time, be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Pàgina 301 - The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments — the legislative, executive and judicial— and no person, or collection of persons...
Pàgina 304 - President as herein provided within twenty days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it...
Pàgina 299 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Pàgina 306 - States, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been an inhabitant of said Territory at the time of its organization, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Pàgina 299 - We, the people of Oregon Territory, for purposes of mutual protection and to secure peace and prosperity among ourselves, agree to adopt the following Laws and Regulations, until such time as the United States of America extend their jurisdiction over us.