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... Spain , with a magnanimity worthy of all commendation , in a case where we had no legal right to solicit the favor , granted a free pardon to the persons who had so unjustifiably invaded her dominions and murdered her subjects in Cuba ...
... Spain , with a magnanimity worthy of all commendation , in a case where we had no legal right to solicit the favor , granted a free pardon to the persons who had so unjustifiably invaded her dominions and murdered her subjects in Cuba ...
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... Spain . Such an act would tend to confirm that friendship which has so long existed between the two nations , and to perpetuate it as a blessing to both ; and I therefore commend it to your favorable consideration . WASHINGTON , June 14 ...
... Spain . Such an act would tend to confirm that friendship which has so long existed between the two nations , and to perpetuate it as a blessing to both ; and I therefore commend it to your favorable consideration . WASHINGTON , June 14 ...
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... Spain , is quite good , but not better than Cape Henlopen , although much more elevated . Cape Clear ( Ireland ) is a very fair light . The Lizard and the principal lights in the English channel are good , and better distinguished than ...
... Spain , is quite good , but not better than Cape Henlopen , although much more elevated . Cape Clear ( Ireland ) is a very fair light . The Lizard and the principal lights in the English channel are good , and better distinguished than ...
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... Spain are few and nothing extra ; on the coast of France are very good and well attended . I have run for the Nordnaes of Norway ; that is a good light and of good range . The Skaw light and the other lights on the Categat sound are ...
... Spain are few and nothing extra ; on the coast of France are very good and well attended . I have run for the Nordnaes of Norway ; that is a good light and of good range . The Skaw light and the other lights on the Categat sound are ...
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... Spain , in- tended to provide for the return of such of the Cuban prisoners as were citizens of the United States , who had been transported to Spain and there pardoned by the Spanish government . It will be observed that no provision ...
... Spain , in- tended to provide for the return of such of the Cuban prisoners as were citizens of the United States , who had been transported to Spain and there pardoned by the Spanish government . It will be observed that no provision ...
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Page 78 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 7 - To avoid improper influences, which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 5 - ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation ; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom.
Page 78 - ... dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 78 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.
Page 27 - If, indeed, an attempt should be made to disturb them, by putting arms in the hands of one portion of their population to destroy another, and which in its influence would endanger the peace of a portion of the United States, the case might be different. Against such an attempt the United States (being informed that it was in contemplation) have already protested and warmly remonstrated, in their communications last summer with the government of Mexico; but the information lately communicated to...
Page 5 - ... the probable course of events, for the short period of half a century, it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Page 4 - Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations, has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas, the character of its population, its situation midway between our southern coast and the island of St.