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Page 36 - between ourselves) than as a temporary expedient to quiet the minds of the Indians. . . . Any person, therefore, who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good lands, and in some measure marking and distinguishing them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never regain it.
Page 62 - the time necessary to perform it in ; — and because they have no other means of coming to us but by a long land transportation & unimproved Roads. " A combination of circumstances make the present conjuncture more favorable than any other to fix the trade of the Western Country to our
Page 114 - the Ordinance of 1787 — of which Daniel Webster said, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character.
Page 230 - over a trail of many moons from the setting sun. You were the friend of my fathers, who have all gone the long way. I came with one eye partly open, for more light for my people who sit in darkness. ... I
Page 106 - liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.
Page 47 - From the experience of many years, I have found distant property in land more pregnant of perplexities than profit. I have therefore resolved to sell all I hold on the Western waters, if I can obtain the prices which I conceive their quality, their situation, and other advantages would authorize me to expect.
Page 184 - England will never forgive us for our victories, and, my word for it, we shall have another war with her within two years.' " The Chancellor, then rising from his seat, with great animation declared, "' If we must have war ... I am in favor of the canal, and I vote for the bill.' "With that vote the bill became a law.
Page 84 - is to come or send as soon as possible. Your company is desired greatly, for the people are very uneasy, but are willing to stay and venture their lives with you, and now is the time to frustrate the intentions of the Indians, and keep the country whilst we are in it. If we give way to them now, it will ever be the case.
Page 37 - a plan of the same nature, before we could lay] a proper foundation for success ourselves, set the different interests clashing, and, probably, in the end overturn the whole. All this may be avoided by a silent management, and the operation carried on by you under the guise of hunting game.
Page 62 - the touch of a feather would almost incline them any way — they looked down the Mississippi until the Spaniards (very impolitically I think for themselves) threw difficulties in the way, and for no other reason that I can conceive than because they glided gently down the stream, without considering perhaps the tedeousness of the voyage back, & the time necessary to perform it