The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, Volume 1S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912 - Oregon |
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Page xxii
... road from Jacksonville to Portland . In 1864 he removed from Jackson- ville to Salem , Oregon , where he continued the practice of law , and edited the Oregon Statesman to earn money to pay family living expenses , while still fol ...
... road from Jacksonville to Portland . In 1864 he removed from Jackson- ville to Salem , Oregon , where he continued the practice of law , and edited the Oregon Statesman to earn money to pay family living expenses , while still fol ...
Page 74
... road running through a for- est for half a mile . As he drove along suddenly a coyote - the sneaking , chicken- stealing , lamb - killing , little gray wolf of eastern Oregon - came out of the brush and trotted alongside the team for a ...
... road running through a for- est for half a mile . As he drove along suddenly a coyote - the sneaking , chicken- stealing , lamb - killing , little gray wolf of eastern Oregon - came out of the brush and trotted alongside the team for a ...
Page 75
... road , Joe Hunt , an Indian about seventy - five years of age , and the son of Timotsk , whose likeness appears on another page of this book . Stopping his team Mr. Tuerck related his strange experience with the coyote . Hunt ...
... road , Joe Hunt , an Indian about seventy - five years of age , and the son of Timotsk , whose likeness appears on another page of this book . Stopping his team Mr. Tuerck related his strange experience with the coyote . Hunt ...
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... Road Commissioners ; an Attorney - General ; a Clerk of the Courts , and Public Recorder ; one Treasurer ; two Overseers of the Poor . It was recommended to nominate persons to fill the several offices , and that they be chosen viva ...
... Road Commissioners ; an Attorney - General ; a Clerk of the Courts , and Public Recorder ; one Treasurer ; two Overseers of the Poor . It was recommended to nominate persons to fill the several offices , and that they be chosen viva ...
Page 188
... roads , Indian affairs and education . Mr. Gray now inquired if in the opinion of the speaker , the house was properly organized ; and the " chair " decided in the affirmative . Whereupon , Gray ap- pealed from the decision of the ...
... roads , Indian affairs and education . Mr. Gray now inquired if in the opinion of the speaker , the house was properly organized ; and the " chair " decided in the affirmative . Whereupon , Gray ap- pealed from the decision of the ...
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Page 640 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ; and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Page 614 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Page 182 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with, or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 153 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Page 218 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other power or state to any part of the said country, the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.
Page 181 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Page xxvii - Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on! " Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson:
Page 265 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Page 614 - Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned and disinherited, Cries protest to the Judges of the World, A protest that is also prophecy.
Page 640 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and in their property rights and liberty they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.