A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 5 |
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Page 1813
... American Government thought the draft of convention thus proposed was not in conformity with the previous agreement ... American counter draft . The British draft contained no provision embodying the principle of arbitration ; the ...
... American Government thought the draft of convention thus proposed was not in conformity with the previous agreement ... American counter draft . The British draft contained no provision embodying the principle of arbitration ; the ...
Page 1814
... American counter draft was communicated to him some reasons would have been given to explain why the United States Government declined accepting the British draft of convention , or that if it thought the draft was not in conformity ...
... American counter draft was communicated to him some reasons would have been given to explain why the United States Government declined accepting the British draft of convention , or that if it thought the draft was not in conformity ...
Page 1816
... American Provinces more than 20,000 of her best regular troops . The whole of those forces might be brought to the verge of our territory in a few days . Two - thirds of that regular force has arrived out since the spring of 1838 ...
... American Provinces more than 20,000 of her best regular troops . The whole of those forces might be brought to the verge of our territory in a few days . Two - thirds of that regular force has arrived out since the spring of 1838 ...
Page 1818
... American lakes , called for by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th March last . M. VAN BUREN . Hon . R. M. JOHNSON , President of the Senate . SIR : I transmit herewith to the Senate a statement from the Secretary of ...
... American lakes , called for by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th March last . M. VAN BUREN . Hon . R. M. JOHNSON , President of the Senate . SIR : I transmit herewith to the Senate a statement from the Secretary of ...
Page 1822
... America . I regret , however , to be obliged to inform you that the claims of our citizens upon the late Repub- lic ... American property seized in 1819 , and to add that information has also been received which justifies the hope of an ...
... America . I regret , however , to be obliged to inform you that the claims of our citizens upon the late Repub- lic ... American property seized in 1819 , and to add that information has also been received which justifies the hope of an ...
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Page 1979 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz., from the North-west Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a line drawn due North, from the source of the St.
Page 1988 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. 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 1979 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 2108 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 1980 - Ocean; east, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid high lands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 1866 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Page 1979 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron; thence along the middle of said water communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that...
Page 1952 - President to give, from time to time, to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...