| James Knox Polk - 1848 - 462 pages
...officers, without yielding any revenue to the government. You may assure the people of those provinces that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government, with the least possible delay, similar to that which exists in our territories.... | |
| Edwin Bryant - 1849 - 500 pages
...tranquillity, in promoting harmony and concord, and in maintaining the authority and efficiency of the laws. It is the wish and design of the United States to...be called upon to exercise their rights as freemen, iu electing their own representatives, to make such laws aa may be deemed best for their interest and... | |
| Edwin Bryant - 1849 - 492 pages
...tranquillity, in promoting harmony and concord, and in maintaining the authority and efficiency of the laws. It is the wish and design of the United States to...in her other territories ; and the people will soon bo called upon to exercise their righU as freemen, in electing their own representatives, to make such... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1850 - 1028 pages
...without yielding any revenue to the government. You may assure the people of those provinces, that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government, with the least possible delay, similar to that which exists in our Territories.... | |
| John Frost - 1850 - 558 pages
...without yielding any revenue to the government. You may assure the people of those provinces, that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free 39 458 HISTORY OF CALIFORHIA. government with the least possible delay, similar to that... | |
| United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), Zachary Taylor - 1850 - 1002 pages
...officers without yielding any revenue to the government. You may assure the people of these provinces that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government, with the least possible delay, similar to what exists in our Territories. They... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 398 pages
...existing officers, if they will take the oath of allegiance to the United States." — " Assure them it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government." — " They will then be called upon to exercise the rights of freemen."1 At... | |
| Emma Willard - 1853 - 298 pages
...people. He guaranteed freedom of conscience and protection of life and property. " It is," he said, " the wish and design of the United States to provide...as freemen, in electing their own representatives." But in the meantime, the Mexican laws, when not conflicting 18-tT. with those of the United States,... | |
| Henry Washington Hilliard - 1855 - 510 pages
...which I will read a single insignificant paragraph : "You may assure the people of those provinces that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government with the least possible delay, similar to that which exists in our Territories.... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 620 pages
...all its artfully devised vagueness and ambiguity : "You may assure the people of those provinces that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government with the least possible delay, similar to that which exists in our terri\ot\es.... | |
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