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... reasons Jay became convinced that France was willing , if not anxious , not only to keep America from obtaining a share of the fisheries , but to limit the extension of the territory in the west , and that Vergennes was de- sirous of ...
... reasons Jay became convinced that France was willing , if not anxious , not only to keep America from obtaining a share of the fisheries , but to limit the extension of the territory in the west , and that Vergennes was de- sirous of ...
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... reason for contending that America should not be regardless of the interests of the other combatants . As we have already seen , however , the problem had been much complicated by the fact that France had finally induced timorous ...
... reason for contending that America should not be regardless of the interests of the other combatants . As we have already seen , however , the problem had been much complicated by the fact that France had finally induced timorous ...
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... reason . There is no evidence that Vergennes had much at heart the narrowing of American territory ; he wished , in order to bring peace and to appease Spain , that the claims of our commissioners should be kept just as low as possible ...
... reason . There is no evidence that Vergennes had much at heart the narrowing of American territory ; he wished , in order to bring peace and to appease Spain , that the claims of our commissioners should be kept just as low as possible ...
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... reason for think- ing that he wished to hem in the Americans by the Appalachians , because he hoped that ultimately French , rather than Spanish , power would be es- tablished in the west . But there seems at present to be little ...
... reason for think- ing that he wished to hem in the Americans by the Appalachians , because he hoped that ultimately French , rather than Spanish , power would be es- tablished in the west . But there seems at present to be little ...
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... reason because it contained no promise of aid to the loyalists , who by adhering to the king's cause had risked their all , and in many cases had lost their all , and thousands of whom had been treated with harshness or driven from the ...
... reason because it contained no promise of aid to the loyalists , who by adhering to the king's cause had risked their all , and in many cases had lost their all , and thousands of whom had been treated with harshness or driven from the ...
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Page 305 - October last past ; and acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new Constitution...
Page 18 - Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 117 - An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory.
Page 292 - The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally in...
Page 100 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 99 - That the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent States from time to time as the numbers and circumstances of the people thereof may require.
Page 56 - And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
Page 54 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor?
Page 217 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men.
Page 172 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State, will effectually provide for the same.