Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society, Issue 16Illinois State Historical Society., 1913 - Illinois |
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... march . Our membership , however , ought to be much larger than it is . Few of our members have sought to gain new members for the Society . Some notable and honorable exceptions to this rule can be given , chief among whom may be ...
... march . Our membership , however , ought to be much larger than it is . Few of our members have sought to gain new members for the Society . Some notable and honorable exceptions to this rule can be given , chief among whom may be ...
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... March 18 , 1776 to Aug. 28 , 1776. Printed from the original mss . Richmond , Va . , 1860 . Virginia - Revolutionary Records . Names of the captains and privates of Col. Nathaniel Gist's Virginia Regiment in 1777. Also list of Virginia ...
... March 18 , 1776 to Aug. 28 , 1776. Printed from the original mss . Richmond , Va . , 1860 . Virginia - Revolutionary Records . Names of the captains and privates of Col. Nathaniel Gist's Virginia Regiment in 1777. Also list of Virginia ...
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... March 29 , 1883 : " The account of their horseback journeyings into what was then the Far West , of the primitive dismalness of Cincinnati , of the floods and unbridged rivers ( in one of which Birkbeck ultimately lost his life ) , of ...
... March 29 , 1883 : " The account of their horseback journeyings into what was then the Far West , of the primitive dismalness of Cincinnati , of the floods and unbridged rivers ( in one of which Birkbeck ultimately lost his life ) , of ...
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... March 20 , 1831 , and at- tended the public school in that place . Later he graduated at Illinois College in Jacksonville , a member of the class of 1850. He later served as trustee of the institution for several years . After leaving ...
... March 20 , 1831 , and at- tended the public school in that place . Later he graduated at Illinois College in Jacksonville , a member of the class of 1850. He later served as trustee of the institution for several years . After leaving ...
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... March 20th last , he added in blank verse the reflections on another decade that left him standing on the brink of infinity . He wrote at his winter home at Biloxi , Miss . , on the shores of the blue Gulf of Mexico , and beneath a ...
... March 20th last , he added in blank verse the reflections on another decade that left him standing on the brink of infinity . He wrote at his winter home at Biloxi , Miss . , on the shores of the blue Gulf of Mexico , and beneath a ...
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Page 81 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 87 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 71 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Page 15 - History of the first New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution.
Page 69 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 71 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 71 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. There is no death!
Page 80 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 15 - The Siege of Charleston by the British fleet and army under the Command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, which terminated with the Surrender of that Place on the 12th of May, 1780.
Page 71 - For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.