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Sentences starting with missouri

Missouri would not yield the point; and Congress that is, a majority in Congress--by repeated votes showed a determination not to admit the State unless it should yield. [7]
Missouri was asked for her quota. [9]
Missouri partridges, broiled. [5]

Sentences ending with missouri

But in 1803 we purchased Louisiana of the French, and it included with much more what has since been formed into the State of Missouri. [7]
The neighbors rose up and drove the Mormons out of Ohio, and they settled in Missouri. [5]
It don't amount to shucks, as we used to say in Missouri. [9]
I am going to Missouri. [5]
And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. [9]
They are going to board the Government transport--to die on the battlefields of Kentucky and Missouri. [9]
All felt that the rejection of Missouri was equivalent to a dissolution of the Union, because those States which already had what Missouri was rejected for refusing to relinquish would go with Missouri. [7]
The guardians were the Minute Men, organized to maintain the honor and dignity of the state of Missouri. [9]
We staid at the Lake four days --I had plenty of fun, for John constantly reminded me of Sam Bowen when we were on our campaign in Missouri. [5]
You all know that Frank Blair and Gratz Brown, down there in St. Louis, undertook to introduce that system in Missouri. [7]

Short sentences using missouri

Then, you're from Missouri. [9]
No Missouri Negro doubted this. [5]
Missouri. [5]
In Missouri. [5]

Sentences containing missouri two or more times

Now, whether this was a repudiation of the Missouri line in principle depends upon whether the Missouri law contained any principle requiring the line to be extended over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
What I want to ask your attention to; at this point, is that Illinois and Missouri came into the Union about the same time, Illinois in the latter part of 1818, and Missouri, after a struggle, I believe sometime in 1820. [7]
The support of the Wilmot Proviso is the first fact mentioned to prove that the Missouri restriction was repudiated in principle, and the second is the refusal to extend the Missouri line over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
At elections see that those, and only those, are allowed to vote who are entitled to do so by the laws of Missouri, including as of those laws the restrictions laid by the Missouri convention upon those who may have participated in the rebellion. [7]
I would only remind the Judge that while he is very valiantly fighting for the Nebraska Bill and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, it has been but a little while since he was the valiant advocate of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us. [5]
Then there was little or no settlement in the northern part of Texas, a considerable portion of which lay north of the Missouri line; and in the resolutions admitting her into the Union, the Missouri restriction was expressly extended westward across her territory. [7]
On that side it was a good many miles wide, but on the Missouri side it was the same old distance across--a half a mile--because the Missouri shore was just a wall of high bluffs. [5]

More example sentences with the word missouri in them

Away up to your left you'll see another thread coming in--that's the Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. [5]
You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd made it. [5]
But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850. [7]
Why," he continued, with his whimsical look, "just before I left Washington, in comes one of your Missouri senators with a list of Rebels who are shut up in McDowell's and Alton. [9]
Some men, mostly Whigs, who condemn the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, nevertheless hesitate to go for its restoration, lest they be thrown in company with the abolitionists. [7]
The arguments by which the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is sought to be justified are these: First. [7]
I say it was conceived in violence, because the destruction of the Missouri Compromise, under the circumstances, was nothing less than violence. [7]
The Masons gave us a Missouri country breakfast, in Missourian abundance, and we needed it: hot biscuits; hot 'wheat bread' prettily criss-crossed in a lattice pattern on top; hot corn pone; fried chicken; bacon, coffee, eggs, milk, buttermilk, etc. [5]
Not much packing up was necessary, because we were going in the overland stage from the Missouri frontier to Nevada, and passengers were only allowed a small quantity of baggage apiece. [5]
About supplies of troops, my general idea is that all from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, not now elsewhere, be left to Fremont. [7]
A great emigrant train from Missouri and Arkansas passed through Salt Lake City and a few disaffected Mormons joined it for the sake of the strong protection it afforded for their escape. [5]
Mr. Colfax was too well bred to inquire further; so he never found out that Mr. Brice was writing an account of the Convention and the speechmaking for the Missouri Democrat. [9]
Some one began to spell out the word Missouri with an interval between the letters. [5]
I am willing to give boot now, if --however, those days are forever gone by in Missouri, and perhaps it is better so. [5]
Iowa and Minnesota, to both of which the Missouri restriction applied, had, without its repeal, each in succession, territorial organizations. [7]
This brings us to a difference between Missouri and Maryland. [7]
It lay between the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected across the Missouri neck of land; but the island being itself joined to that neck now, the wide river is without obstruction. [5]
A year later the university of his own State, at Columbia, Missouri, conferred the same degree, and then, in 1907, came the crowning honor, when venerable Oxford tendered him the doctor's robe. [5]
The movements in the same direction more extensive though less definite in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, should not be overlooked. [7]
The repeal of the sacred Missouri Compromise has installed the weapons of violence: the bludgeon, the incendiary torch, the death-dealing rifle, the bristling cannon--the weapons of kingcraft, of the inquisition, of ignorance, of barbarism, of oppression. [7]
In this region the river passes from Kentucky into Tennessee, back into Missouri, then back into Kentucky, and thence into Tennessee again. [5]
I go against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; did they ever go for it? [7]
With nothing of the profession of arms save that born in the Carvels, he kissed Beatrice farewell and steamed down the Mississippi, a captain in Missouri regiment. [9]
The distance between the ports is 600 miles, and when the difficulties of navigating the turbulent Missouri are taken into consideration, the performance of the Lucas deserves especial mention. [5]
Once I crossed the plains and deserts and mountains of the West in a stagecoach, from the Missouri line to California, and since then all my pleasure trips must be measured to that rare holiday frolic. [5]
Galen was still the only medical authority recognized in Missouri; his practice was the only practice known to the Missouri doctors, and his prescriptions were the only ammunition they carried when they went out for game. [5]
Twelfth Street to the north of the Market House is full three hundred feet across, and the militia of the Sovereign State of Missouri is gathering there. [9]
He will cause the necessary staff officers in the United States service to be detailed for duty in connection with the Missouri State militia, and will order them to make the necessary provision in their respective offices for fulfilling this agreement. [7]
Not so with the Missouri question. [7]
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was by violence. [7]
Mr. Clay was the leading spirit in making the Missouri Compromise; is it very credible that if now alive he would take the lead in the breaking of it? [7]
Martha Washington and the good ladies of her acquaintance knew nothing about the upper waters of the Missouri, and the words "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer" were not merely literature to them. [9]
They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went. [5]
Colonel Doniphan, too, the favorite Whig of Missouri, and who overran all Northern Mexico, on his return home in a public speech at St. Louis condemned the administration in relation to the war. [7]
Go back to the day of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
Let us test that: In 1858 the emancipation party of Missouri, with Frank Blair at their head, tried to get up a movement for that purpose, and having started a party contested the State. [7]
At the time that wages soared so high on the Missouri River, my chief, Mr. Bixby, went up there and learned more than a thousand miles of that stream with an ease and rapidity that were astonishing. [5]
A big island that used to be away out in mid-river, has retired to the Missouri shore, and boats do not go near it any more. [5]
Then he learned that the untiring Lyon had steamed up the Missouri and had taken possession of Jefferson City without a blow, and that the ragged rebel force had fought and lost at Booneville. [9]
I conclude, then, that the public never demanded the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
Now, I deny that the public ever demanded any such thing--ever repudiated the Missouri Compromise, ever commanded its repeal. [7]
It so happens that in that "popular sovereignty" with which Mr. Clay was identified, the Missouri Compromise was expressly reversed; and it was a little singular if Mr. Clay cast his mantle upon Judge Douglas on purpose to have that compromise repealed. [7]
For he argued that if a confederate was not found, an enlightened Missouri jury would hang them; sure; if a confederate was found, that would not improve the matter, but simply furnish one more person for the sheriff to hang. [5]
Uncle Mumford said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained several colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious basis of one kind or another. [5]
It is a telegram from Joplin, Missouri, and it reads: "In what one of your works can we find the definition of a gentleman? [5]
The French, under such men as La Salle, had pushed their trading posts westward to the great lakes and beyond the Missouri, and north to the shores of Hudson's Bay. [11]
In substance the storiette was as follows: John Brown, aged thirty-one, good, gentle, bashful, timid, lived in a quiet village in Missouri. [5]
Can you sit still while the Governor and all the secessionists in this state are plotting to take Missouri, too, out of the Union? [9]
In 1853 the steamer Polar Star made the run from St. Louis to St. Joseph, on the Missouri River, in 64 hours. [5]
Toward evening, the stage-coach came thundering into Hawkeye with a perfectly triumphant ostentation--which was natural and proper, for Hawkey a was a pretty large town for interior Missouri. [5]
The Missouri regiment spread out along the waters, and were soon waist deep, hewing a path for the heavier transports to come. [9]
There arrived a sparkling Sunday, brought down the valley of the Missouri from the frozen northwest. [9]
Certainly there was something picturesque in the idea of the Missouri private who had been chased for a rainy fortnight through the swamps of Ralls County being selected now to join in welcome to his ancient enemy. [5]
Bixby soon made some trips up the Missouri River, and in his absence turned his apprentice, or "cub," over to other pilots, such being the river custom. [5]
When he did so, it ended in his inserting a provision substantially repealing the Missouri Compromise. [7]
It was me, sir, that induced Silas Hawkins, Judge Hawkins, to come to Missouri, and make his fortune. [5]
It had been signed by everybody of any importance in Missouri, and would be presented immediately. [5]
That General Schofield shall be relieved, and General Butler be appointed as Commander of the Military Department of Missouri. [7]
There were French settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were French settlements in what is now Missouri, in the tract of country that was not purchased till about 1803. [7]
Senator Douglas sometimes says the Missouri line itself was in principle only an extension of the line of the Ordinance of '87--that is to say, an extension of the Ohio River. [7]
Will not the same cause that produced agitation in 1820, when the Missouri Compromise was formed, that which produced the agitation upon the annexation of Texas, and at other times, work out the same results always? [7]
This is the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth. [5]
The Missouri plan recently adopted, I do not object to on account of the time for ending the institution; but I am sorry the beginning should have been postponed for seven years, leaving all that time to agitate for the repeal of the whole thing. [7]
With the same reason in both States, Missouri has, by law, provided a test for the voter with reference to the present rebellion, while Maryland has not. [7]
We are getting ready to fight for Missouri and for the South. [9]
And when she reached her room, there was the hated Missouri Democrat lying, still open, on her table. [9]
It included the present States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; also the Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. [7]
So there is plenty of them in Missouri, though I didn't know it before. [5]
Before spring the people of Missouri will probably be in no favorable mood to renew for next year the troubles which have so much afflicted and impoverished them during this. [7]
About nightfall we passed the large and flourishing town of Alton, Illinois; and before daylight next morning the town of Louisiana, Missouri, a sleepy village in my day, but a brisk railway center now; however, all the towns out there are railway centers now. [5]
I close this part of the discussion on my part by asking him the question again, "Why, when we had peace under the Missouri Compromise, could you not have let it alone? [7]
It is very painful to me that you in Missouri cannot or will not settle your factional quarrel among yourselves. [7]
The camps in our part of Missouri were under Brigadier-General Thomas H. Harris. [5]
It was settled, our fathers hoped, by the Missouri Compromise, but it did not stay settled. [7]
The Missouri Compromise ought to be restored. [7]
Then I am ordered to report to Halleck in Missouri here, and he calls me back from Sedalia because he believes the lies. [9]
So a mile or two of Missouri sticks over into Tennessee. [5]
If, by any or all these matters, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was commanded, why was not the command sooner obeyed? [7]
It was an open secret that the Governor of Missouri held out his arms to Jefferson Davis, just elected President of the new Southern Confederacy. [9]
That's Columbus river, only forty-nine miles to the Missouri. [5]
Under the pressure of this necessity he secured a position as one of an engineering party engaged in the survey of a railway in Missouri. [4]
It comes out of the turbulent, bank-caving Missouri, and every tumblerful of it holds nearly an acre of land in solution. [5]
That fierce valley of the Missouri, which belches fitful blizzards from December to March, is sometimes quiet. [9]
The Missouri side of the Mississippi is a very different country from the hot and treeless prairies of Illinois. [9]
A chap out of the Illinois River, with a little stern-wheel tub, accosts a couple of ornate and gilded Missouri River pilots-- 'Gentlemen, I've got a pretty good trip for the upcountry, and shall want you about a month. [5]
They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa. [7]
Seeing a regiment of Missouri Volunteers slouching down Fifth street in citizens' clothes he had been remarked to smile cynically. [9]
There were scores of little camps scattered over Missouri where the same thing was happening. [5]
That the system of enrolled militia in Missouri may be broken up, and national forces he substituted for it; and Third. [7]
John M. Robinson, of Columbia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Missouri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Missouri, may be allowed to return to their respective homes. [7]
Moss's men are now driving the Union men out of Missouri. [7]
This bill contained no repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
The administration takes no part between its friends in Missouri, of whom I, at least, consider you one; and I have never before had an intimation that appointees there were interfering, or were inclined to interfere. [7]
I dreamed all night about Indians, deserts, and silver bars, and in due time, next day, we took shipping at the St. Louis wharf on board a steamboat bound up the Missouri River. [5]
Although I have never taken prizes anywhere else I used to take them at school in Missouri half a century ago, and I ought to be able to repeat, now, if I could have a chance. [5]
As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance--for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water. [5]
On Judge Douglas's motion, a bill, or provision of a bill, passed the Senate to so extend the Missouri line. [7]
For nearly a month he had tramped over mountains and across river bottoms, waiting for news of an organized force of resistance in Missouri. [9]
My order in Missouri, which you approve, and General Scherick's order here, reach precisely the same end. [7]

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