State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency: Exhibiting a Complete View of Our Foreign Relations Since that Time ...Thomas B. Wait, 1817 - United States |
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... interest with them , that their merchant vessels will not be interrupted on the high seas , in order to im- press from them their crews , under pretence of being de- serters . It is certainly just that the United States should afford to ...
... interest with them , that their merchant vessels will not be interrupted on the high seas , in order to im- press from them their crews , under pretence of being de- serters . It is certainly just that the United States should afford to ...
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... interest in their persons to the extent of the service contracted to be performed . Britain has no pretext of right to their persons or to their service . To tear them , then , from our possession , is at the same time an insult and an ...
... interest in their persons to the extent of the service contracted to be performed . Britain has no pretext of right to their persons or to their service . To tear them , then , from our possession , is at the same time an insult and an ...
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... interest of our own country , in refusing to sanction a principle that might be productive of more extensive evils than those it was our aim to prevent . " MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE STATE PAPERS . 35.
... interest of our own country , in refusing to sanction a principle that might be productive of more extensive evils than those it was our aim to prevent . " MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE STATE PAPERS . 35.
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... acceptance of British licenses , is not a sufficient guard against the use of them for purposes favourable to the interests and views of the enemy ; further provisions on that subject are highly important . Nor is it less 56 AMERICAN.
... acceptance of British licenses , is not a sufficient guard against the use of them for purposes favourable to the interests and views of the enemy ; further provisions on that subject are highly important . Nor is it less 56 AMERICAN.
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... interest . The receipts into the treasury , during the year ending on the 30th of September last , have exceeded sixteen mil- lions and a half of dollars ; which have been sufficient to defray all the demands on the treasury to that day ...
... interest . The receipts into the treasury , during the year ending on the 30th of September last , have exceeded sixteen mil- lions and a half of dollars ; which have been sufficient to defray all the demands on the treasury to that day ...
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Page 437 - ... all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page 439 - ... 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 439 - Whereas neither that point of the Highlands lying due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and designated in the former Treaty of Peace between the two Powers as the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, nor the...
Page 436 - States, and from every port, place, and harbour within the same ; leaving in all fortifications the American artillery that may be therein. And shall also order and cause all archives, records, deeds, and papers, belonging to any of the said States, or their citizens, which in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and persons to whom they belong.
Page 438 - Commissioners refusing or declining or wilfully omitting to act as such they shall make jointly or separately a report or reports as well to the Government of His Britannic Majesty as to that of the United States stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they or either of them have so refused declined or omitted to act. And His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States...
Page 439 - His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States engage to consider the decision of such friendly sovereign or State to be final and conclusive on all the matters so referred.
Page 439 - ... refused, declined, or omitted to act. And his Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States hereby agree to refer the report or reports of the said commissioners to some friendly sovereign or state, to be then named for that purpose, and who shall be requested to decide on the differences which may be stated in the said report or reports...
Page 154 - Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate...
Page 421 - The United States of America engage to put an end, immediately after the ratification of the present treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such ratification; and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations, respectively, all the possessions, rights and privileges which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and eleven, previous to such hostilities...
Page 441 - 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 lake and Lake Superior...