The Works of John C. Calhoun: Reports and public lettersD. Appleton, 1855 |
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... considered one of the most powerful engines of the present war . Such are the pretensions upon which Great Britain founds the violation of the maritime rights of the United States - pretensions not theoretical merely , but followed up ...
... considered one of the most powerful engines of the present war . Such are the pretensions upon which Great Britain founds the violation of the maritime rights of the United States - pretensions not theoretical merely , but followed up ...
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... considered as inde- pendent nations . Our views of their interests , and not their own , ought to govern them . By a proper combination of force and persuasion , of punishments and rewards , they ought to be brought within the pales of ...
... considered as inde- pendent nations . Our views of their interests , and not their own , ought to govern them . By a proper combination of force and persuasion , of punishments and rewards , they ought to be brought within the pales of ...
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... Considered as an original question , it would involve in its discussion the political institutions of the country , its geographical position and character , the number and distance of our posts , and our relations with the Indian ...
... Considered as an original question , it would involve in its discussion the political institutions of the country , its geographical position and character , the number and distance of our posts , and our relations with the Indian ...
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... considered to be superior to that of the periods to which I have reference . In estimating the expenses of the army , and particularly that of the staff , the two most expensive branches of it ( the engineer and ordnance departments ) ...
... considered to be superior to that of the periods to which I have reference . In estimating the expenses of the army , and particularly that of the staff , the two most expensive branches of it ( the engineer and ordnance departments ) ...
الصفحة 41
... capacity is , when compared with the number of our people , yet , when considered in re- lation to the vast extent of our country , it is very small ; and if so great an extent of territory renders it REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS . 41.
... capacity is , when compared with the number of our people , yet , when considered in re- lation to the vast extent of our country , it is very small ; and if so great an extent of territory renders it REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS . 41.
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الصفحة 435 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
الصفحة 394 - ... shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of said Republic of Texas, and the residue of said lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct, but in no event are said debts and liabilities become a charge upon the Government of the United States.
الصفحة 435 - ... years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim, which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent...
الصفحة 395 - States; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to defray the expenses of missions and negotiations, to agree upon the terms of said admission and cession, either by treaty to be submitted to the Senate or by articles to be submitted to the two Houses of Congress, as the President may direct.
الصفحة 393 - That Congress doth consent that the territory, properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the " State of Texas," with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union.
الصفحة 274 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
الصفحة 394 - Said State, when admitted into the Union, after ceding to the United States all public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports, and harbors, navy and navy yards, docks, magazines, arms, armaments, and all other property and means pertaining to the public defense, belonging to the said Republic of Texas...
الصفحة 332 - The investigation has resulted in the settled conviction that it would be difficult for Texas, in her actual condition, to resist what she desires, without supposing the influence and exertions of Great Britain would be extended beyond the limits assigned by Lord Aberdeen ; and...
الصفحة 432 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic majesty, and those of his most Christian majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
الصفحة 323 - The inhabitants of the territories which His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States.