“In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldStatesHelpingUnitedUnited StatesReadyCongressDisasterFloridaMississippiLouisianaAlabamaTime Of Need Author:Bill Frist
“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself” StatesGovernmentReligionHouseBlackChurchUnitedUnited StatesLandDutyCitizensEssentialsConstitutionFellowsBillsMeetingsPracticalsOccasionsGreekPurityDistinctionAddressesGrantsTerritoryBaptistsObjectionsMississippiCarolinaContainingNorth CarolinaConstitution Of The United StatesCreeksApprovingSalemPublic Lands Author:James Madison
“Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRiversLaysMereEastExtensionsMississippiRailroadsMississippi River Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States