 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...abandons the navigation of the Mississippi, is an act of separation between the eastern and western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts out...confidence in the honest intentions of those who concur m this measure ; but I lament their want of acquaintance with the character and physical advantages... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1830 - 526 pages
...Mississippi, is an act of separation between the eastern and western country. It is a relinqtiishment of five parts out of eight of the territory of the...debts, and the chaining those debts on our own necks, t'n perpetuum. I have the utmost confidence in the honest intentions of those who concur in this measure... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...Mississippi, is an act of separation between the eastern and western country. It is a relinquishinent of five parts out of eight of the territory of the United States; an abandoment of the fairest subject for the payment of our public debts, and the chaining those debts... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...abandons the navigation of the Mississippi, is an act of separation between the eastern and western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts out...and the chaining those debts on our own necks, in pcrpetuum, I have the utmost confidence in the honest intentions of those who concur in this measure;... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1854 - 564 pages
...abandons the navigation of the Mississippi is an act of separation between the Eastern and Western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts out...debts, and the chaining those debts on our own necks, m perpetuam. I have the utmost confidence in the honest intentions of those who concur in this measure... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1854 - 564 pages
...subject for the payment of our public debts, and the chaining those debts on our own necks, in perpetuam. I have the utmost confidence in the honest intentions of those who concur in this measure ; but 1 lament their want of acquaintance with the character and physical advantages of the people, who,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1860 - 578 pages
...abandons the navigation of the Mississippi is an act of separation between the Eastern and Western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts out...the fairest subject for the payment of our public debts,and the chaining those debts on our own necks, in perpetuam. I have the utmost con fidence in... | |
 | John William Draper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 568 pages
...abandons the navigation of the Mississippi is an act of separation between the Eastern and Western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts out of eight of the territory of the United States—an abandonment of the fairest subject for the payment of our public debts, and the chaining... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 566 pages
...abandons the navigation of the Missis" sippi is an act of separation between the eastern and " western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts " out...— " an abandonment of the fairest subject for the pay" ment of our public debts, and the chaining of those -- debts upon our own necks, in perpetuation.... | |
 | James Clarke Welling - Land tenure - 1888 - 54 pages
...he characterized the measure as an " act of separation between the Eastern and Western country ; as a relinquishment of five parts out of eight of the territory of the United States," and as " a clear sacrifice of the Western to the Maritime States." f The mind of Patrick Henry was... | |
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I never will have any. But I have had great opportunities of knowing the character of the people who inhabit that country ; and I will venture to say... 
