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... undersigned , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty , informed his government in due time , that in consequence of the jury at New Orleans not having been able to agree , they had not succeeded in ...
... undersigned , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty , informed his government in due time , that in consequence of the jury at New Orleans not having been able to agree , they had not succeeded in ...
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... undersigned will not quote what Vattel ( Book II . ) and other more modern writers on common law have written in favor of the claimants . For the same reason he will likewise abstain from alluding to the spirit of the treaty of 1795 ...
... undersigned will not quote what Vattel ( Book II . ) and other more modern writers on common law have written in favor of the claimants . For the same reason he will likewise abstain from alluding to the spirit of the treaty of 1795 ...
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... undersigned does not hesitate in flattering himself that the Hon . Daniel Webster will find , in his equity and wisdom , the generous remedy that the condition to which several peaceful , industri- ous , and honorable Spaniards have ...
... undersigned does not hesitate in flattering himself that the Hon . Daniel Webster will find , in his equity and wisdom , the generous remedy that the condition to which several peaceful , industri- ous , and honorable Spaniards have ...
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... undersigned , one of his Majesty's justices of the peace in and for said county , residing in Campo Bello , do hereby certify that on the 23d day of June , 1824 , Willian Paine , the person in the annexed instrument mentioned , appeared ...
... undersigned , one of his Majesty's justices of the peace in and for said county , residing in Campo Bello , do hereby certify that on the 23d day of June , 1824 , Willian Paine , the person in the annexed instrument mentioned , appeared ...
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... undersigned , have examined the aforesaid persons , belonging to his Majesty's sloop Dotterel , taking the minutes of their depositions respect- ing the detention of the American fishing schooner William ; and we do declare that their ...
... undersigned , have examined the aforesaid persons , belonging to his Majesty's sloop Dotterel , taking the minutes of their depositions respect- ing the detention of the American fishing schooner William ; and we do declare that their ...
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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.