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... vote of 19 to 16. On February 5 , however , by a vote of 21 to 11 , the President was authorized to seize Florida west of the Perdido or otherwise to occupy Mo- bile . The House passed the bill in secret session on February 9 and the ...
... vote of 19 to 16. On February 5 , however , by a vote of 21 to 11 , the President was authorized to seize Florida west of the Perdido or otherwise to occupy Mo- bile . The House passed the bill in secret session on February 9 and the ...
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... vote of 85 to 57. The Senate , though less hasty , also acquiesced in the President's recommendations and by a vote of 20 to 14 on December 17 , 1813 , passed the act which was signed the same day by the President . † The act laid an ...
... vote of 85 to 57. The Senate , though less hasty , also acquiesced in the President's recommendations and by a vote of 20 to 14 on December 17 , 1813 , passed the act which was signed the same day by the President . † The act laid an ...
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... vote of 80 to 57,8 but when the Senate referred this bill to the Committee on Foreign Relations it was smothered ... voted nay . Various similar resolutions and those favoring a suspension of the Embargo during the negotiations for peace ...
... vote of 80 to 57,8 but when the Senate referred this bill to the Committee on Foreign Relations it was smothered ... voted nay . Various similar resolutions and those favoring a suspension of the Embargo during the negotiations for peace ...
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... vote of 115 to 37 passed the bill repealing the Embargo and Non - importation Acts and sent it to the Senate . There some amendments were made , to which the House reluctantly assented , and on April 12 the Senate passed it by a vote of ...
... vote of 115 to 37 passed the bill repealing the Embargo and Non - importation Acts and sent it to the Senate . There some amendments were made , to which the House reluctantly assented , and on April 12 the Senate passed it by a vote of ...
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... vote of 97 to 58. The Senate passed the bill without a divi- sion and it received the President's signature on January 27. † Meanwhile the Senate had passed bills to convert the twelve - months ' regiments into regiments enlisted for ...
... vote of 97 to 58. The Senate passed the bill without a divi- sion and it received the President's signature on January 27. † Meanwhile the Senate had passed bills to convert the twelve - months ' regiments into regiments enlisted for ...
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Page 227 - The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellowmen on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 354 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Page 354 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...
Page 227 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 98 - 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 206 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 213 - Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the hundredth and thousandth generation...
Page 228 - ... provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 161 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island), and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in America. And that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the UNSETTLED bays, harbors and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands and Labrador so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 408 - State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and -will forthwith proceed to organize a separate government, and do all other acts and things which sovereign and independent States may of right do...