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1st Lieut 1st Lieutenant Adjutant April Arkansas Army Assistant August Author's note barracks Battery became Ben Lear bridge building Camp Funston Capt Captain Cavalry School Chaplain charge Class Colonel command Company course Creek December Department duty east enlisted Equitation erected expedition Faringhy Field Artillery field officers Forsyth Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley George Governor Guard Hippology horses Horseshoers hospital Indians Infantry instruction Instructor Jack Daly January John July Junction City June Kansas River land Leavenworth Lieutenant-Colonel located Louis Loeb Major Ogden March Mexico miles military Missouri Montgomery monument Mounted Service School October organized Pawnee Photo loaned polo Post Quartermaster quarters Quivira regiment relieved reported Republican River reservation Riding Hall Riley Santa Fe Trail Sawyer Second Lieutenant Secretary September Sergeant Seventh Cavalry Sixth Cavalry Smoky Hill soldiers stable territory tion town Training Troop Officers Union vicinity Whiskey Point
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Page 56 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Page 56 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 99 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their...
Page 27 - I, in virtue of the commission of his Majesty which I hold in my hand, and which may be seen by all whom it may concern, have taken, and do now take, in the name of his Majesty and of his successors to the crown, possession of this country of Louisiana, the seas, harbors, ports, bays, adjacent straits; and all the nations, people, provinces, cities, towns, villages, mines, minerals, fisheries, streams, and rivers, comprised in the extent of the said Louisiana, from the mouth of the great river St.
Page 100 - ... beginning at a point on the western boundary of the state of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the...
Page 98 - That, in order to avoid misconstruction, it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of this act, so far as the question of slavery is concerned, to carry into practical operation the following propositions and principles, established by the compromise measures of 1850, to wit:
Page 100 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 27 - April, one thousand six hundred and eighty-two, in virtue of the commission of his Majesty, which I hold in my hand, and which may be seen by all whom it may concern, have taken, and do now take, in the name of his Majesty and of his successors to the crown, possession of this country of Louisiana...
Page 99 - That the Constitution, and all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union...
Page 99 - In the judgment of your Committee, those measures were Intended to have a far more comprehensive and enduring effect than the mere adjustment of the difficulties arising out of the recent acquisition of Mexican territory. They were designed to establish certain great principles, which would not only furnish adequate remedies for existing evils, but, in all time to come, avoid the perils of a similar agitation, by withdrawing the question of Slavery from the Halls of Congress and the political arena,...