The Land Politics of the United States a Paper Read Before the New York Histor
The Land Politics of the United States a Paper Read Before the New York Histor
Welling, James Clarke, 1825-1894
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\. The people * For findings of the Court, see Journal of Congress, vol. Viii. , p. 44 et seq. F- Ramsay : Annals of Tennessee, p. 284, cf. P. 439. \ Elliot's Debates, vol. V. , p. 92. 14 The Land Politics of the United States. inhabiting this western region proceeded, in 1785, to consti- tute themselves into a State, without waiting for permission either from North Carolina or from Congress. * Erecting an independent State of their own mere motion, they at the same time created an independent ...currency of their own in- vention, consisting chiefly of beaver-skins, deer-skins, rac- coon-skins, and such like peltries, together with " good dis- tilled whiskey and apple or peach brandy " at a fixed valua- tion per gallon, while, with genuine frontiersman pleasantry, it was further enacted that the salaries of all officials in the rising commonwealth should be paid in mink-skins ! The State thus improvised, with John Sevier for its titular Gov- ernor, took to itself the name of Franklin, though in the pop- ular parlance of the day it was commonly called by the name of Frankland the land of the Franks.
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