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Seite 138 - Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of...
Seite 12 - This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at...
Seite 73 - I want its atmosphere that of Christian refinement, and its aim and object the building up of character, and I rest content that the friends I have named will carry out my wishes in these particulars.
Seite 75 - Illinois. Not without thy wondrous story, Illinois, Illinois, Can be writ the nation's glory, Illinois, Illinois...
Seite 47 - I do hereby request all the people to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite at their several places of public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
Seite 11 - SEO. 6. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and in case of his absence or inability to act, one of the Vice Presidents shall preside in his stead, and in case neither President nor Vice President shall be in attendance, the Society may choose a President pro tempore.
Seite 48 - God to hearken to the supplications and prayers of an afflicted people, and to vouchsafe to the army and the navy of the United States victories on land and on the sea so signal and so effective as to furnish reasonable grounds for augmented confidence that the Union of these States will be maintained, their constitution preserved, and their peace and prosperity permanently restored.
Seite 160 - ... is a merely temporary eviL A bursting of the bubble must come soon. The absurdity of the speculation is so striking, that the wonder is that the fever should have attained such a height as I witnessed. The immediate occasion of the bustle which prevailed, the week we were at Chicago, was the sale of lots, to the value of two millions of dollars, along the course of a projected canal ; and of another set, immediately behind these.
Seite 10 - The management of the affairs of the Society shall be vested in a. Council consisting of nine members, viz.
Seite 120 - ... the mind of every citizen of every republic, is the common property of society, and constitutes the basis of its strength and happiness; — it is considered the peculiar duty of a free government, like ours, to encourage and extend the improvement and cultivation of the intellectual energies of the whole: Therefore,