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# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to Findlay News in general and family affairs

Harrison to Findlay
Richmond, Va., July 18, 1800
Pub. Hist, and Phil. Soc. of Ohio, I, 100
Dear [James] Findlay,
It has been a long time since I received a line from you—what can be the reason? I arrived here with my wife and family about six weeks ago. Mrs. H. is not very well. What are you doing at Cincinnati? does trade flourish? are the crops promising? what has our Distiller done last winter? I should like to hear from you on all these subjects. I expect to leave this State about the 10th of October for the Ohio and shall see you at Cincinnati about the 10th of November. Who is talked of as my successor in Congress? Do not abuse me for filling my letter with interrogatories; I could give you no intelligence from hence, that would not be old by the time you received it, as you get the Philadelphia papers regularly. By a paragraph in the Norfolk paper of Monday last I see that General [James] Wilkinson and his family have arrived there after a tempestuous voyage of 35 days from the mouth of the Mississippi. I must get the favour of you to enter with the auditor the following described land and pay the taxes for it—4,000 acres surveyed for my brother-in-law, Anthony Singleton deceased. I do not know where this land has been located except one thousand acres which is described as lying on the waters of the little Miami and of course in Hamilton County. The other 3,000 acres must be entered as lying some where in the Virginia Reserve between the Scioto and Miami. The quality of this land is not known so that it must be entered second Rate. I wish you to enter and pay also for 1,000 acres of land the property of Seth Bird of the State of New York in the Ohio Company purchase. The site of this land is not known either but I suppose if the money is paid to the Auditor it will prevent a forfeiture; don't fail to pay the taxes on this land as I have promised the ovner that it shall not be neglected. ​Give Mrs. Harrison's and my best regards to Mrs. Findlay and to Smith and all our mutual friends.
Yours truly,
William H. Harrison
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to Menard Commission as a judge of common pleas Randolph county. Ill.

Commission of Peter Menard
February 5, 1801
Fergus Historical Series, Early Illinois, 31
William Henry Harrison, Esq., Governor and Commander in Chief of Indiana Territory,
| Indiana Territory | To Peter Menard, Esquire, of the County of Randolph sends Greeting: |
Know you that reposing Especial trust and confidence in your abilities, integrity and judgment, I, the said William Henry Harrison have appointed, and do by these presents appoint and commission you, the said Peter Menard, to be one of our Judges of the court of common pleas, in and for our said County, hereby giving and granting unto you full right and title to have and Execute all and singular the powers, Jurisdictions and authorities, and to receive and enjoy all and singular Emoluments, of a Judge of the court of common pleas, of a Judge of the Orphans Court, and of a Justice of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the peace in and for the county aforesaid agreeable to the constitution of the laws of this Territory to have and to hold this commission and the office hereby granted to you so long as you shall behave yourself well.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Territory at Vincennes (Seal) this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one and of the Independence of the United States the twenty fifth. By the governor,
Jno. Gibson, Secretary
(Endorsed) Commission Peter Menard, Esq.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to President Plan of Jeffersonville

Harrison to Jefferson
Vincennes 8th Augt. 1802
Jefferson Papers: 2d series, vol. 42, no. 75
Sir:
When I had the honour to see you in Philadelphia in the Spring of the year 1800 You were pleased to recommend to me a plan for a Town which you supposed would exempt its inhabitants in a great degree from those dreadful pestilences which have become so common in the large Cities of the United States. As the laws of this Territory have given to the Governor the power to designate the seats of Justice for the Counties, and as the choice of the Citizens of Clark County was fixed upon a spot where there had been no town laid out, I had an opportunity at once of gratifying them, of paying respect to your recommendation, and of Conforming to my own inclinations. The proprietor of the land ​having acceded to my proposals a Town has been laid out with each alternate square to remain vacant forever (excepting one Range of squares upon the River) and I have taken the liberty to call it Jeffersonville. The beauty of the spot on which the Town is laid out, the advantage of the situation (being just above the Rapids of the Ohio) and the excellence of the plan, make it highly probable that it will at some period not very remote become a place of considerable Consequence. At the sale of the lots a few days ago several of them were struck off at 200 Dollars. It is in contemplation to cut a canal round the Rapids on this side— a project which it is said can be very easily executed and which will be highly beneficial to the Town. Indeed I have very little doubt of its flourishing. It is my ardent wish that it may become worthy of the name it bears, and that the Humane & benevolent views which dictated the plan may be reallised.
If Sir it should again happen that in the wide Range which you suffer your thoughts to take for the benefit of mankind the accomplishment of any of your wishes can in the smallest degree be aided by me, I beg you to believe that your Commands shall be executed to the utmost extent of my small talents.
I have the Honour to be with sincere Attachment Sir your Most
Hume. Sevt.
Willm. Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson,
    President of the United States
P. S. I have done myself the Honour to enclose a plan of the Town of Jeffersonville and one which shows its situation with Regard to Louisville & Clarksville.
[Indorsed] Harrison Govr. Wm. Henry. Vincennes Aug. 8, 1802 recd. Aug. 29.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to Jefferson Map by Evans

Harrison to Jefferson
Vincennes 26th Novr 1803
Jefferson Papers, 2d series, vol. 42, no. 76
The Governor of the Indiana Territory presents his respectful compliments to the President of the United States and requests his acceptance of the enclosed map which is a copy of the manuscript map of Mr Evans who ascended the Missouri River by order of the Spanish Government much further than any other person. [Indorsed:] Harrison Govr. Vincennes Nov. 26.03.recd Dec.20
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to Secretary of State Public lands

Harrison to the Secretary of State
July 7th 1802
Sir:
The mail which will carry this letter is the first from this place, since the month of March last—or I should before have done myself the honour to write to you—altho I had nothing material to communicate. This barrenness of events still continues, with the exception of such as come under my notice as Superintendent of Indian affairs & these as has been the custom will be detailed to the Secretary of War. The Secretary of this Terretory will transmit you a Copy of our proceeings from the commencment of the Government to the 4th Instant, & a Copy of the Laws—adopted by the Governor and Judges during the last Winter. The expence of printing laws adopted in the Territory has usually been borne by the United States, & I believe that part of the Contingent money voted annually by Congress is intended for ​this purpose. If I am correct will you please to inform me, Sir, whether it will be done under your direction at the seat of Government, or will you authorise me to employ some one of the printers in Kentucky to do this and other trifling articles in the Printing line—Such as land Patents, Civil and Military Commissions &c. The Citizens of the Territory suffer great inconveniance for the want of Printed Laws—& I shall shortly be ready to issue Patents for such of the land claims as have not been decided on by the former Governor. My proceeding on this subject shall be transmitted to you as it is brought to a close—which I hope to be able to effect in the course of one year from the present time. My labour in this business would be much lightened and the chance of making blunders rendered much less; If I could procure from Governor St. Clair certain Records in his possession, which exclusively relate to the land business in this Country. I have enclosed an extract of his answer to my application for these papers, in which he declares he does not think himself authorised to deliver them, without an order for that purpose from the President.
I am with respect &c.
Wm. Henry Harrison
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to Francis Busseron License to trade with the Indians

Trader's License, Francois Busseron
October 8, 1801
Mss. in Indiana State Library
By William Henry Harrison Esquire and Commander in chief in and over the Indiana Territory
Licence is granted to Francis Besaion, [Busseron or Bosseron] an Inhabitant of Vincennes, of the County of Knox, to trade with the different Tribes of Indians residing on the Wabash below Vincennes he having given Bond for the due observation of all the laws and regulations relating to Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Nations, that now are, or hereafter shall be made issued or declared during the term for which the same is Granted. This Licence to continue in force for one year, unless sooner revoked by the Governor. Given at Vincennes the eighth day of October in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and one, and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twenty Sixth.
Willm Henry Harrison
# More Translations from the Chinese/After Passing the Examination

​[11] AFTER PASSING THE EXAMINATION
[A.D. 800]
For ten years I never left my books; I went up ... and won unmerited praise. My high place I do not much prize; The joy of my parents will first make me proud. Fellow students, six or seven men, See me off as I leave the City gate. My covered couch is ready to drive away; Flutes and strings blend their parting tune. Hopes achieved dull the pains of parting; Fumes of wine shorten the long road... Shod with wings is the horse of him who rides On a Spring day the road that leads to home.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Escorting Candidates to the Examination Hall

​[12] ESCORTING CANDIDATES TO THE EXAMINATION HALL
[A.D. 805]
At dawn I rode to escort the Doctors of Art; In the eastern quarter the sky was still grey. I said to myself, "You have started far too soon," But horses and coaches already thronged the road. High and low the riders' torches bobbed; Muffled or loud, the watchman's drum beat. Riders, when I see you prick To your early levee, pity fills my heart. When the sun rises and the hot dust flies And the creatures of earth resume their great strife, You, with your striving, what shall you each seek? Profit and fame, for that is all your care. But I, you courtiers, rise from my bed at noon And live idly in the city of Ch'ang-an. Spring is deep and my term of office spent; Day by day my thoughts go back to the hills.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Chu Ch'ēn Village

​[21] CHU CH'ĒN VILLAGE
[A.D. 811]
In Hsü-chou, in the District of Ku-fēng There lies a village whose name is Chu-ch'ēn— A hundred miles away from the county-town, Amid fields of hemp and green of mulberry-trees. Click, click goes the sound of the spinning-wheel; Mules and oxen pack the village-streets. The girls go drawing the water from the brook; The men go gathering fire-wood on the hill. So far from the town Government affairs are few; So deep in the hills, man's ways are simple. Though they have wealth, they do not traffic with it; Though they reach the age, they do not enter the Army. Each family keeps to its village trade; Grey-headed, they have never left the gates.
Alive, they are the people of Ch'ēn Village; Dead, they become the dust of Ch'ēn Village. Out in the fields old men and young Gaze gladly, each in the other's face. In the whole village there are only two clans; Age after age Chus have married Ch'ēns. Near or distant, they have kinsmen in every house; Young or old, they have friends wherever they go. On white wine and roasted fowl they fare At joyful meetings more than "once a week." While they are alive, they have no distant partings; To choose a wife they go to a neighbour's house. When they are dead,—no distant burial; Round the village graves lie thick.
They are not troubled either about life or death; They have no anguish either of body or soul. And so it happens that they live to a ripe age And great-great-grandsons are often seen.
I was born in the Realms of Etiquette; In early years, unprotected and poor. Alone, I learnt to distinguish between Evil and Good; Untutored, I toiled at bitter tasks. The World's Law honours Learning and Fame; Scholars prize marriages and Caps. With these fetters I gyved my own hands; Truly I became a much-deceived man. At ten years old I learnt to read books; At fifteen, I knew how to write prose. At twenty I was made a Bachelor of Arts; At thirty I became a Censor at the Court. Above, the duty I owe to Prince and parents; Below, the ties that bind me to wife and child. The support of my family, the service of my country— For these tasks my nature is not apt. I reckon the time that I first left my home; From then till now,—fifteen Springs! My lonely boat has thrice sailed to Ch'u; Four times through Ch'in my lean horse has passed. I have walked in the morning with hunger in my face; I have lain at night with a soul that could not rest. East and West I have wandered without pause, Hither and thither like a cloud astray in the sky. In the civil-war my old home was destroyed; Of my flesh and blood many are scattered and lost. North of the River, and South of the River—
In both lands are the friends of all my life; Life-friends whom I never see at all,— Whose deaths I hear of only after the lapse of years. Sad at morning, I lie on my bed till dusk; Weeping at night, I sit and wait for dawn. The fire of sorrow has burnt my heart's core; The frost of trouble has seized my hair's roots. In such anguish has my whole life passed; Long I have envied the people of Ch'ēn Village.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Clearing at Dawn

​[10] CLEARING AT DAWN
The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped; The colours of Spring teem on every side. With leaping fish the blue pond is full; With singing thrushes the green boughs droop. The flowers of the field have dabbled their powdered cheeks; The mountain grasses are bent level at the waist. By the bamboo stream the last fragment of cloud Blown by the wind slowly scatters away.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Appendix

APPENDIX
An essay on Po Chü-i, whose poems occupy most of this book, will be found in "170 Chinese Poems." The fullest account of Li Po's life (with translations) is given in a paper read by me to the China Society, and published in the Asiatic Review, July, 1919. Notices of Ch'ü Yüan, Wang Wei, Yüan Chēn, Wang Chien and Ou-yang Hsiu will be found in Giles's "Biographical Dictionary." To Wang Chieh Po Chü-i addressed several poems.
Of the 68 pieces in this book, 55 are now translated for the first time. Of the eight poems by Li Po, all but Number 6 have been translated before, some of them by several hands.
Among the poems by Po Chü-i, three (Nos. 11, 12, and 44) have been translated by Woitsch and one, (No. 43), very incorrectly, by Pfizmaier. Another (No. 21) was translated into rhymed verse by Prof. Giles in "Adversaria Sinica" (1914), p. 323. Ou-yang Hsiu's "Autumn" was translated by Giles (with great freedom in many places) in his "Chinese Literature," p. 215.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Fishing in the Wei River

​[22] FISHING IN THE WEI RIVER
[A.D. 811]
In waters still as a burnished mirror's face, In the depths of Wei, carp and grayling swim. Idly I come with my bamboo fishing-rod And hang my hook by the banks of Wei stream. A gentle wind blows on my fishing-gear Softly shaking my ten feet of line. Though my body sits waiting for fish to come, My heart has wandered to the Land of Nothingness. Long ago a white-headed man Also fished at the same river's side; A hooker of men, not a hooker of fish, At seventy years, he caught Wēn Wang. But I, when I come to cast my hook in the stream, Have no thought either of fish or men. Lacking the skill to capture either prey, I can only bask in the autumn water's light. When I tire of this, my fishing also stops; I go to my home and drink my cup of wine.
* ↑ See "Chuang Tzŭ," chap. i, end.
* ↑ The Sage T'ai-kung sat still till he was seventy, apparently fishing, but really waiting for a Prince who would employ him. At last Wēn Wang, Prince of Chou, happened to come that way and at once made him his counsellor.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Dreaming that I Went with Lu and Yu to Visit Yüan Chēn

​[35] DREAMING THAT I WENT WITH LU AND YU TO VISIT YÜAN CHĒN
[Written in exile]
At night I dreamt I was back in Ch'ang-an; I saw again the faces of old friends. And in my dreams, under an April sky, They led me by the hand to wander in the spring winds. Together we came to the village of Peace and Quiet; We stopped our horses at the gate of Yüan Chēn. Yüan Chēn was sitting all alone; When he saw me coming, a smile came to his face. He pointed back at the flowers in the western court; Then opened wine in the northern summer-house. He seemed to be saying that neither of us had changed; He seemed to be regretting that joy will not stay; That our souls had met only for a little while, To part again with hardly time for greeting. I woke up and thought him still at my side; I put out my hand; there was nothing there at all.
# More Translations from the Chinese/Drinking Alone by Moonlight

​[3-5] DRINKING ALONE BY MOONLIGHT
[Three Poems]
I
A cup of wine, under the flowering trees; I drink alone, for no friend is near. Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon, For he, with my shadow, will make three men. The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine; Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side. Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave I must make merry before the Spring is spent. To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams; In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks. While we were sober, three shared the fun; Now we are drunk, each goes his way. May we long share our odd, inanimate feast, And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky.
II
In the third month the town of Hsien-yang Is thick-spread with a carpet of fallen flowers. Who in Spring can bear to grieve alone? Who, sober, look on sights like these? Riches and Poverty, long or short life, By the Maker of Things are portioned and disposed; But a cup of wine levels life and death And a thousand things obstinately hard to prove. When I am drunk, I lose Heaven and Earth.
Motionless—I cleave to my lonely bed. At last I forget that I exist at all, And at that moment my joy is great indeed.
III
If High Heaven had no love for wine, There would not be a Wine Star in the sky. If Earth herself had no love for wine, There would not be a city called Wine Springs. Since Heaven and Earth both love wine, I can love wine, without shame before God. Clear wine was once called a Saint; Thick wine was once called "a Sage."
Of Saint and Sage I have long quaffed deep, What need for me to study spirits and hsien? At the third cup I penetrate the Great Way; A full gallon—Nature and I are one... But the things I feel when wine possesses my soul I will never tell to those who are not drunk.
* ↑ The Milky Way.
* ↑ Ch'iu-ch'üan, in Kansuh.
* ↑ "History of Wei Dynasty" (Life of Hsü Mo): "A drunken visitor said, 'Clear wine I account a Saint: thick wine only a Sage.'"
* ↑ The lore of Rishi, Immortals.
# More Translations from the Chinese/At the End of Spring

​[19] AT THE END OF SPRING
To Yüan Chēn. [A.D. 810]
The flower of the pear-tree gathers and turns to fruit; The swallows' eggs have hatched into young birds. When the Seasons' changes thus confront the mind What comfort can the Doctrine of Tao give? It will teach me to watch the days and months fly Without grieving that Youth slips away; If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, It does not matter whether one is young or old. But ever since the day that my friend left my side And has lived an exile in the City of Chiang-ling, There is one wish I cannot quite destroy: That from time to time we may chance to meet again.
# Moore v. Missouri

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United States Supreme Court
159 U.S. 673
Moore v. Missouri
[Syllabus from pages 673-675 intentionally omitted]
Charles T. Noland, for plaintiff in error.
R. F. Walker and Morton Jourdan, for defendant in error.
Mr. Chief Justice FULLER, after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Moore v. Mitchell

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United States Supreme Court
281 U.S. 18
Moore v. Mitchell
Argued: Jan. 14, 1930. --- Decided: Feb 24, 1930
Messrs. Henry M. Dowling, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Russell H. Robbins, of New York City, for petitioner.
[Argument of Counsel from page 19 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Louis Connick and Graham Sumner, both of New York City, for respondent.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 20-21 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Moore v. New York

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Murphy
United States Supreme Court
333 U.S. 565
Moore v. New York
Argued: Feb. 12, 1948. --- Decided: March 29, 1948
Messrs. John F. Wilkinson and I. Saul Fleischman, both of New York City, for petitioners.
Mr. George Tilzer, of New York City, for respondent.
Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange

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United States Supreme Court
270 U.S. 593
Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange
Argued: March 9, 1926. --- Decided: April 12, 1926
Mr. John M. Coleman, of New York City (Mr. Oscar B. Bergstrom, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 594-596 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. George W. Wickersham, Henry W. Taft, and Francis Raymond Stark, all of New York City (Mr. George Coggill, of New York City, of counsel), for appellees.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 597-601 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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