Documentary History of the Cession of Louisiana to the United States Till it Became an American Province: With an Appendix |
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... in the year 1903 , by RUFUS BLANCHARD , in the office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington , D. C. AMBOLIAD PRESS OF STROMBERG , ALLEN & CO . CHICAGO . 95129 MNWV DEDICATION Emile Loubet , President of France : It E ...
... in the year 1903 , by RUFUS BLANCHARD , in the office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington , D. C. AMBOLIAD PRESS OF STROMBERG , ALLEN & CO . CHICAGO . 95129 MNWV DEDICATION Emile Loubet , President of France : It E ...
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With an Appendix Rufus Blanchard. MNWV DEDICATION Emile Loubet , President of France : It seems appropriate that at the Centennial Celebration at St. Louis of the French cession of Louisiana to the United States our national ...
With an Appendix Rufus Blanchard. MNWV DEDICATION Emile Loubet , President of France : It seems appropriate that at the Centennial Celebration at St. Louis of the French cession of Louisiana to the United States our national ...
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... President Jefferson to act with Mr. Livingston in the delicate and uncertain negotiations with France for the purchase of Louisiana . The following letters to Mr. Monroe show his con- fidence in him to execute the important commission ...
... President Jefferson to act with Mr. Livingston in the delicate and uncertain negotiations with France for the purchase of Louisiana . The following letters to Mr. Monroe show his con- fidence in him to execute the important commission ...
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... President Jeffer- son and immediately made preparations to sail for Paris . Meanwhile , Napoleon , now fully aware of the uncertainty with which the peace of Amiens held England in check , was ready to open negotiations with Livingston ...
... President Jeffer- son and immediately made preparations to sail for Paris . Meanwhile , Napoleon , now fully aware of the uncertainty with which the peace of Amiens held England in check , was ready to open negotiations with Livingston ...
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... President Jefferson ratified the treaty October 21 , 1803. The House of Representatives , after some opposition , concurred . This prompt and hasty action of President Jeffer- son was not consistent with his intense democratic ...
... President Jefferson ratified the treaty October 21 , 1803. The House of Representatives , after some opposition , concurred . This prompt and hasty action of President Jeffer- son was not consistent with his intense democratic ...
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Page 37 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 36 - His Catholic Majesty promises and engages, on his part, to retrocede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein relative to his Royal Highness, the Duke of Parma, the Colony or Province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 62 - The farms, lands, and other property of every description belonging to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company, on the north side of the Columbia River, shall be confirmed to the said company. In case, however, the situation of those farms and lands should be considered by the United States to be of public and political importance, and the United States...
Page 61 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 35 - THE President of the United States of America and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, desiring to remove all source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion, mentioned in the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th Vendemiaire, an.
Page 37 - And whereas, in pursuance of the treaty, and particularly of the third article, the French republic has an incontestable title to the domain and to the possession of the said territory. The First Consul of the French republic, desiring to give to the United States a strong proof of his friendship, doth hereby cede to the said United States, in the name of the French republic...
Page 22 - Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season. I renounce Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole colony, without any reservation.
Page 62 - The present Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London, at the expiration of six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.
Page 18 - All eyes, all hopes, are now fixed on you ; and were you to decline, the chagrin would be universal, and would shake under your feet the high ground on which you stand with the public. Indeed I know nothing which would produce such a shock, for on the event of this mission depends the future destinies 'of this republic.
Page 40 - America,] by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Livingston, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the said States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, Citizen Francis Barbe...