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Page 201 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 172 - Jersey had enlarged the object of their appointment, empowering their commissioners " to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations and other important matters might be necessary to the common interest and permanent harmony of the several states...
Page 176 - Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein and ye shall find rest fbr your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Page 196 - see it steady and see it whole;" and its central movement and motive are gross and obvious to the eye. Till the first century of the Constitution is rounded out we stand all the while in the presence of that stupendous westward movement which has filled the continent: so vast, so various, at times so tragical, so swept by passion. Through all the long time there has been a line of rude settlements along our front wherein the same tests of power and of institutions were still being made that were...
Page 22 - A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston, Member of Congress in 1774, 1775 and 1776 ; Delegate to the Federal Convention in 1787, and Governor of the State of New-Jf rsey from 1776 to 1790.
Page 163 - Cochrane'a paper on the waters of New Jersey, read before the Historical Society of New York; and a rejoinder to the reply of "A member of the New York Historical Society:
Page 200 - Slavery within the States of the Union stood sufficiently protected by every solemn sanction the Constitution could afford. No man could touch it there, think, or hope, or purpose what he might. But where new States were to be made it was not so. There at every step choice must be made : slavery or no slavery? — a new choice for every new State : a fresh act of origination to go with every fresh act of organization. Had there been no Territories, there could have been no slavery question, except...
Page 23 - Israel Acrelius, A History of New Sweden; or, The Settlements on the River Delaware, translated and edited by William M' Reynolds, Philadelphia, 1874, p.
Page 155 - Drawings and papers of Robert Fulton in the possession of the Society; Account of the establishment at Morristown of the first (Morris) academy, library, and printing press; Extracts from manuscripts of Samuel Smith (on history of New Jersey) ; Field and staff officers of New Jersey regiments in the Revolution; Appointment of Nathaniel Jones as chief justice in 1759, by WA Whitehead; Journal of Capt.
Page 155 - A brief history of the boundary disputes between New York and New Jersey, by J. Parker ; Staten Island, part of New Jersey; Journal of Lieut. Isaac Bangs...