A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: Appendix. IndexU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... letter written in this month by the gov- ernor of Rhode Island at the request and in behalf of the general assembly of that State , addressed to the President , the Senate , and the House of Representatives of the eleven United States ...
... letter written in this month by the gov- ernor of Rhode Island at the request and in behalf of the general assembly of that State , addressed to the President , the Senate , and the House of Representatives of the eleven United States ...
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... letter * which I have received from the Attorney - General of the United States . GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , January 2 , 1792 . Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives : I lay before you an official statement of ...
... letter * which I have received from the Attorney - General of the United States . GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , January 2 , 1792 . Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives : I lay before you an official statement of ...
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... letter from the Secretary of State , with his account of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations from the 1st of July , 1792 , to the 1st of July , 1793 , and other papers relating thereto ...
... letter from the Secretary of State , with his account of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations from the 1st of July , 1792 , to the 1st of July , 1793 , and other papers relating thereto ...
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... letter from the governor of the State of North Carolina , together with two petitions , * to which it refers , and ... letter from the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty , in answer to a letter from the Secretary of State ...
... letter from the governor of the State of North Carolina , together with two petitions , * to which it refers , and ... letter from the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty , in answer to a letter from the Secretary of State ...
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... letter from the Secretary of State , with his account , as adjusted with the Treasury Department , of the expenditure of moneys appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations up to the 1st of July , 1794 . GO WASHINGTON ...
... letter from the Secretary of State , with his account , as adjusted with the Treasury Department , of the expenditure of moneys appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations up to the 1st of July , 1794 . GO WASHINGTON ...
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Page 338 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 511 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 331 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.
Page 155 - Resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 164 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 150 - Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 202 - Third. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States, to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 415 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 204 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 155 - WHEREAS, The abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...