Proceedings

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New Jersey historical society, 1894 - New Jersey

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Page 142 - Jersey had enlarged the object of their appointment, empowering their commissioners " to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations and other important matters might be necessary to the common interest and permanent harmony of the several states...
Page 60 - DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW ALBION. And a Direction for Adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : And for Gentlemen, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers to live plentifully. And a former Description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest Plantation of NEW ALBION IN NORTH VIRGINIA, proved by thirteen witnesses.
Page 60 - January 13, 1845, a number of gentlemen met in Trenton with the purpose of organizing an Historical Society, and thus to lend support to the Governor's recommendation. A severe snow storm prevailed, and but few attended. Ex-Governor Peter D. Vroom was appointed Chairman, and the Rev. Eli F. Cooley Secretary. A committee was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, and the meeting then adjourned to meet at Trenton, on February 27th, 1845. On that day a number of gentlemen from different parts...
Page 146 - Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein and ye shall find rest fbr your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Page 157 - All along the parallels of latitude ran the rivalry, in those heroical days of toil and adventure during which population crossed the continent, like an army advancing its encampments. Up and down the great river of the continent, too, and beyond, up the slow incline of the vast steppes that lift themselves toward the crowning towers of the Rockies, — beyond that, again, in the goldfields and upon the green plains of California, the race for ascendency struggled on, — till at length there was...
Page 158 - ... virgin forests still thick upon them: a new temper, a new spirit of adventure, a new impatience of restraint, a new license of life, — these are the characteristic notes and measures of the time when the nation spread itself at large upon the continent, and was transformed from a group of colonies into a family of States. The passes of these eastern mountains were the arteries of the nation's life. The real breath of our growth and manhood came into our nostrils when first, like Governor Spotswood...
Page 157 - ... from their well-earned fame. They have written our history, nevertheless, from but a single point of view. From where they sit, the whole of the great development looks like an Expansion of New England. Other elements but play along the sides of the great process by which the Puritan has worked out the development of nation and polity. It is he who has gone out and possessed the land: the man of destiny, the type and impersonation of a chosen people. To the Southern writer, too, the story looks...
Page 125 - Drawings and papers of Robert Fulton In the possession of the Society ; Account of the establishment at Morristown of the first [Morris] academy, library, and printing press: Extracts from manuscripts of Samuel Smith [on history of New Jersey] ; Field and staff officers of New Jersey regiments In the Revolution ; Appointment of Nathaniel Jones as chief justice In 1759. by WA Whltehead ; Journal of Capt.
Page 160 - ... life of these States was from the beginning like the life of the country: they have always shown the national pattern. In New England and the South it was very different. There some of the great elements of the national life were long in preparation: but separately and with an individual distinction : without mixture, — for long almost without movement. That the elements thus separately prepared were of the greatest importance, and run everywhere like the chief threads of the pattern through...
Page 153 - The history of a nation is only the history of its villages written large. I only marvel that these local historians have not seen more in the stories they have sought to tell. Surely here, in these old hamlets that antedate the cities, in these little communities that stand apart and yet give their young life to the nation, is to be found the very authentic stuff of romance for the mere looking. There is love and courtship and eager life and high devotion up and down all the lines of every genealogy.

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