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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... claim is believed never to have been made , or if made , never granted . Whatever right the British captors have ( if any they have ) to the possession of the American ships , is of a na- ture cognizable before the tribunals of justice ...
... claim is believed never to have been made , or if made , never granted . Whatever right the British captors have ( if any they have ) to the possession of the American ships , is of a na- ture cognizable before the tribunals of justice ...
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... claim to the person . " The United States therefore require positively , that their seamen who are not British subjects , whether born in America or elsewhere , shall be exempt from impress- ments . " The case of British subjects ...
... claim to the person . " The United States therefore require positively , that their seamen who are not British subjects , whether born in America or elsewhere , shall be exempt from impress- ments . " The case of British subjects ...
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... claims and exer- cises ought to be ceded to others . To deny this would be to deny the equality of nations , and to make it a ques- tion of power and not of right . " If the practice of the British government may be quoted , that ...
... claims and exer- cises ought to be ceded to others . To deny this would be to deny the equality of nations , and to make it a ques- tion of power and not of right . " If the practice of the British government may be quoted , that ...
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... claim against Spain in an adjustment of our affairs with her . You * [ This message was confidential ; and the injunction of secrecy not re- moved till July 6. ] may also guaranty , in the name of the United STATE PAPERS . 41.
... claim against Spain in an adjustment of our affairs with her . You * [ This message was confidential ; and the injunction of secrecy not re- moved till July 6. ] may also guaranty , in the name of the United STATE PAPERS . 41.
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... claim . I may add , that although due sensibility has been al- ways felt for the injuries which were received from the Spanish government in the last war , the present situation of Spain has been a motive for a moderate and pacifick ...
... claim . I may add , that although due sensibility has been al- ways felt for the injuries which were received from the Spanish government in the last war , the present situation of Spain has been a motive for a moderate and pacifick ...
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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...