Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1892 |
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Σελίδα 77 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Σελίδα 232 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Σελίδα 233 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Σελίδα 106 - ... Treasury bankrupt. Would you now revoke Your trust, so be it! and I leave you, sole Supremest Monarch of the mightiest realm From Ganges to the Icebergs: — Look without; No foe not humbled ! — Look within ; the Arts Quit for your schools — their old Hesperides The golden Italy! while through the veins Of your vast empire flows in strengthening tides TRADE, the calm health of nations!
Σελίδα 82 - ... and nominated Martin Van Buren for president, and Charles Francis Adams for vice president. The democrats nominated General Cass for president, and William O.
Σελίδα 129 - The stoat — a little devil with all its hair, from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail...
Σελίδα 8 - ... there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.
Σελίδα 237 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Σελίδα 81 - ... could contemplate without anxiety. The theory of our Government presupposes that its various members have reserved to themselves the regulation of all subjects relating to what may be termed their internal police. They are sovereign within their boundaries, except in those cases where they have surrendered to the General Government a portion of their rights, in order to give effect to the objects of the Union, whether these concern foreign nations or the several States themselves. Local institutions,...
Σελίδα 264 - England," says this eminent man, "were, that so scholars might there be educated for the service of Christ and his churches, in the work of the ministry, and that they might be seasoned in their tender years with such principles as brought their blessed progenitors into this wilderness. There is no one thing of greater concernment to these churches, in present and aftertimes, than the prosperity of that society. They cannot subsist without a College.