Missouri Historical Review, Volume 11Francis Asbury Sampson State Historical Society of Missouri., 1917 - Missouri |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adair County appointed Ass'n attorney Bates County Blair Boone Boonville Callaway county Cape Girardeau Capt Centennial Committee Chariton Chariton county Charles church circuit Civil War veteran Clark Clark county College Columbia Congress county pioneer county seat court Democrat Doniphan Doolittle DUANE MOWRY early days editor elected Fayette former Franklin Governor Henry Henry County Historical sketch Historical Society Holt County Howard County Indian Jackson James Jefferson City John Joseph Judge July June Kansas City Kentucky Kirksville laid land lawyer legislature letter Lewis County Linn Louis Macon Macon County meeting Methodist Mexico Missouri Conference Missouri history Missourians Moberly named in honor newspaper organized Pershing Phelps Platte Platte City platted political Pres President railroad Ray County Recollections Republican river Santa Fe Sedalia Sept settlers Society of Missouri souri Stephens tion town trade Union West William
Popular passages
Page 251 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 164 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Page 369 - June, 1820, do mutually agree to form and establish a free and independent republic, by the name of "The State of Missouri," and for the government thereof do ordain and establish this constitution.
Page 277 - I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea."— Letter xxvii.
Page 285 - To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb.
Page 281 - Farewell to Lane County, farewell to the West, I'll travel back East to the girl I love best ; I'll stop in Missouri and get me a wife, And live on corn dodgers the rest of my life.
Page 139 - Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.
Page 265 - The magnificent valley of the Mississippi is ours, with all its fountains, springs, and floods ; and woe to the statesman who shall undertake to surrender one drop of its water, one inch of its soil to any foreign power.
Page 298 - Cotton goods, consisting of coarse and fine cambrics, calicoes, domestic, shawls, handkerchiefs, steam-loom shirtings, and cotton hose. A few woollen goods, consisting of super blues, stroudings, pelisse cloths, and shawls, crapes, bombazettes, some light articles of cutlery, silk shawls, and looking glasses. In addition to these, many other articles, necessary for the purposes of an assortment.
Page 263 - Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interests of England or of Europe. Now mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the eastern Democracy, we bid you farewell when you do that thing.