James Knox Polk, and a History of His Administration: Embracing the Annexation of Texas, the Difficulties with Mexico, the Settlement of the Oregon Question, and Other Important EventsBurnett & Bostwick, 1854 - 395 من الصفحات |
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... Union - Meeting of Congress - First Annual Message - The Oregon Boundary Question - History and Progress of the Negotiation - Ultima- tum of the American Government - Proposition of Great Britain - Con- clusion and Ratification of a ...
... Union - Meeting of Congress - First Annual Message - The Oregon Boundary Question - History and Progress of the Negotiation - Ultima- tum of the American Government - Proposition of Great Britain - Con- clusion and Ratification of a ...
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... union and harmony , in said county ; -and to use every exertion to spread the love of country and fire of freedom throughout America , until a more general and organized gov- ernment be established in this province . " Loud cheers and ...
... union and harmony , in said county ; -and to use every exertion to spread the love of country and fire of freedom throughout America , until a more general and organized gov- ernment be established in this province . " Loud cheers and ...
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... Union , have been educated , was then under the charge of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Caldwell , " justly styled the father of the University . " * Colonel William Polk , late of Raleigh , and the first cousin of the father of Pres- ident Polk ...
... Union , have been educated , was then under the charge of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Caldwell , " justly styled the father of the University . " * Colonel William Polk , late of Raleigh , and the first cousin of the father of Pres- ident Polk ...
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... . Polk succeeded in procuring the passage of a law designed to Dull prevent duelling . Though residing in a section of the Dualling Union where this mode of vindicating one's honor when assailed 52 [ 1823 JAMES KNOX POLK .
... . Polk succeeded in procuring the passage of a law designed to Dull prevent duelling . Though residing in a section of the Dualling Union where this mode of vindicating one's honor when assailed 52 [ 1823 JAMES KNOX POLK .
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... Union where this mode of vindicating one's honor when assailed has ever been sustained by the general sense of the community , oftentimes in opposition to positive enact- ments , he was never concerned in a duel , during his whole life ...
... Union where this mode of vindicating one's honor when assailed has ever been sustained by the general sense of the community , oftentimes in opposition to positive enact- ments , he was never concerned in a duel , during his whole life ...
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28th Congress administration adopted American annexation appropriations army authority bank bill boundary canals Carolina character citizens claim Coahuila coast commerce Congress constitution Convention December declared deemed defend democratic desire duty on vessels election ernment established executive exercise existing favor foreign friends granted gress harbors and rivers honor House of Representatives hundred important imposed independent interests internal improvements JAMES K law levying legislation letter levying a tonnage Matamoras Mecklenburg county ment Mexican government Mexico minister navigation negotiation Nootka Sound Convention North North Carolina Nueces objects opinion Oregon Oregon question Oregon territory Paredes party peace Polk Port wine ports present President principle proper protection public money question recommend republic republic of Texas republican republican party resolution revenue Rio Grande Senate session settlement Spain tariff Tennessee territory Texan Texas thousand tion tonnage duty Treasury treaty Union United veto vote Wabash River whig
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الصفحة 228 - 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 138 - That our title to the whole of the Territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable ; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period, are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union.
الصفحة 347 - It is contended on the one side that as the National Government is a government of limited powers it has no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants according to a strict construction of their powers...
الصفحة 147 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
الصفحة 27 - That we the citizens of Mecklenburg County do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us to the mother country and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British Crown and abjure all political connection contract or association with that nation who have wantonly trampled on our rights and liberties and inhumanly shed the blood of American patriots at Lexington.
الصفحة 27 - Committeeman. to issue process, hear and determine all matters of controversy, according to said adopted laws, and to preserve peace, union and harmony in said county; 'and to use every exertion to spread the love of country and fire of freedom throughout America, until a more general and organized government be established in this province.
الصفحة 182 - Existing rights of every European nation should be respected, but it is due alike to our safety and our interests that the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as our settled policy that no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
الصفحة 365 - the war has not been waged with a view to conquest; but having been commenced by Mexico, it has been carried into the enemy's country, and will be vigorously prosecuted there, with a view to obtain an honorable peace, and thereby secure ample indemnity for the expenses of the war, as well as to our much-injured citizens, who hold large pecuniary demands against Mexico.
الصفحة 138 - That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith...
الصفحة 137 - That Congress has no power to charter a national bank; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power and above the laws and the will of the people...