This district was the storm-centre for the more or less ridiculous episodes of the "Toledo War" in 1835, a dispute over the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan.
President Jackson put an end to the dispute by requesting Michigan to stop interfering with the re-marking of the boundary line, but slight outbreaks continued until he presently removed Gov.
These factions grew out of a dispute over questions involving the Erie Canal.
But, setting the dispute aside, an important fact remains: shorn as he was, McClellan was still strong enough to meet and to defeat his opponents.
General Webb says that this question is "the leading point of dispute in the campaign and may never be satisfactorily set at rest.
If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body candispute mine.
Any private Disputeof mine shall be of no ill consequence to my Friends.
This divine pair had once a dispute on the comparative influence of the sexes in producing animated beings, and each resolved, by mutual agreement, to create apart a new race of men.
Before the dispute was ended, the doctor himself entered the room.
The disputewhich ensued between the two physicians would, perhaps, be unintelligible to any but those of the faculty, and not very entertaining to them.
This proclamation also settled temporarily a disputewhich had arisen between the provinces of South Carolina and Georgia as to the right to the said territory.
The title to this land, and in fact all British West Florida, was a subject of dispute between the United States and Spain.
This dispute had its origin in the indefiniteness of boundaries as provided by the treaties given by Great Britain to said powers on Sept.
The greater number heard the tidings gladly, but some, there were, who came to dispute and oppose the work of the Lord.
He had, we are led to believe, had some dispute with Asiatic converts, for he wrote to Timothy in great sorrow because some of his companions had forsaken him and were advocating doctrines contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This question has been settled beyonddispute by the fatal campaign in Russia.
Taking my view of the subject, few, I think, will dispute that the term Christian civilization is a misnomer.
But it is not my purpose, nor that of the author to whose writings these pages are introductory, to enter into a contest which to me seems rather a dispute about words than essentials.
The dispute was happily compromised, by successive surrenders of portions of the territory by the states having exclusive claims to it, and acceptances of them by congress.
The principal subject of dispute had been the public revenue and its appropriation.
General Wayne was directed to remain at Chadd's ford with the left wing, to dispute the passage of the river with Knyphausen.
There had long been a dispute between these people and the Georgia state government, which claimed the lands on which the Creeks resided.
Notwithstanding all the attempts of the governor to effect a compromise, an agreement in respect to the topics in dispute could not be brought about.
Massasoit showed his kind feeling towards Mr. Williams, in giving up the lands in dispute between him and the Narraganset sachem, since Mr. Williams had bought and paid for all he possessed of the latter.
Cat-Kaspar commences a dispute with his neighbor, in which the others join, one by one.
Such a dispute about yours and mine is always the most disagreeable thing in the world, even when one looks upon it as a mere spectator; how much more then when the dust raised is thrown directly into one's face!
We passed through the open door into the wide hall, where we found the sergeant in lively dispute with the inspector and half-a-dozen overseers.
The subject of dispute was a load of corn which the old man wanted thrown off, and which the other refused to touch.
Those conditions in themselves are fair, if I understand the matter rightly; and it were better far to yield to them, than now to dispute the matter, when your daughter has thus attained her liberty.
It is not my purpose to dispute with these learned gentlemen, I shall only observe, that none of them have made the columns of this Temple more than sixty feet high.
Sir Thomas Browne, too, while he denies the capacity of the astrologers of his day, does not venture to dispute the reality of the science.
Nor did Kant, owing to the irrefutable reasoning of his predecessors, hesitate to consider the Will as fast bound in the chains of Necessity, the matter admitting, as he thought, of no further dispute or doubt.
When we halt between the desire to do a thing, and the feeling that we ought not to do it, we seem to have two minds within us, and these two minds dispute about the decision.
Of course it is no blasphemy to dispute my estimate; but what prospect is there of reversing the common verdict of George Eliot, George Meredith, Swinburne, and Rossetti?
God which is in dispute between itself and Iconoclast!
O shut not your eyes against the light; darken not knowledge by dispute about particular men's privileges, when Universal Freedom is brought to be tried before you; dispute no further when truth appears, but be silent and practice it.
On April 24th a dispute about pay in one of the troops of Whalley's regiment had resulted "in some thirty of the soldiers seizing the colours and refusing to leave their quarters.
Jewel thinks to settle the whole dispute by crowding together texts from the Bible, with the opinions of the commentators upon them.
If this limitation were more generally recognized, a good deal of dispute and polemics on the subject might be saved.
There lives no engineer who has not seen insensate dispute as to wages where the real difficulty was inefficiency.
Burckhardt was the first to dispute this claim, and to ascribe the fresco with more vraisemblance to Perugino.
Old men with high caps and turbans dispute together, potentates ride upon the scene, pages attend their masters, bearing their volumes for reference, a greyhound steals forward at the feet of a squire who bears a halberd on his shoulder.
At the foot of the great arch of Constantine, which is crowned with a golden bull, St. Catherine of Alexandria holds a theological dispute with fifty philosophers at a council convoked by the Emperor Maximian.
The group in the foreground suggests that Pintoricchio is still full of recollections of the "Dispute of St. Catherine," and is dwelling on the contrast he there emphasised between the fragile champion and the old philosophers.
The other panel at Berlin, a "Madonna and Child," is not ascribed withoutdispute to Pintoricchio.
There might be some dispute over the question, how much of this positive achievement of philosophy is due to the author and to his predecessors.
True, the reason for this lack of terms is the absence of understanding, and for this reason the dispute is not one of mere words, although it can be allayed only by an improvement of our terminology.
The linguists who dispute about the question whether reason has developed after language or language after reason agree that both belong together.
The thousand year old dispute between the materialists and the idealists turns on the question whether the spirit is material or the world spiritual.
And this dispute is so much more ridiculous because it is taken so seriously.
By recognizing the logical interconnection between peace and strife, the dispute of the parties is rendered saner.
The dispute exists for a good reason and has its object, but this object is not revealed in the dispute.
I found that so many inconveniences resulted from an endowment, and saw that it was the cause of so much trouble, and even distraction, that I did nothing but dispute with the learned.
I understand that she has been simply defeated in religious dispute by an Atheist of the neighbourhood--a shoemaker, or something of that sort--and has been seeking everywhere for assistance.
It was impossible to dispute the fact, but still I was glad to hear their prattle; it evidently did them good.
He ended the dispute between the monks and the Bishop of Durham by an agreement known as "Le Convenit.
This, happily, supplies the place of all other sources of alternate dispute and reconciliation; it keeps all in life and motion, from the lord down to the hedger.
