A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: Appendix. IndexU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... returned to me as soon as the Senate shall have made all the use of them they may judge necessary . JOHN ADAMS . * Relating to the surrender by the United States to Great Britain of Thomas Nash , charged with murder and piracy on the ...
... returned to me as soon as the Senate shall have made all the use of them they may judge necessary . JOHN ADAMS . * Relating to the surrender by the United States to Great Britain of Thomas Nash , charged with murder and piracy on the ...
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... returned to me or to the Office of State . JOHN ADAMS . UNITED STATES , February 27 , 1801 . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I transmit you a report of the Secretary of State , with sundry docu- ments , relative to the ...
... returned to me or to the Office of State . JOHN ADAMS . UNITED STATES , February 27 , 1801 . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I transmit you a report of the Secretary of State , with sundry docu- ments , relative to the ...
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... returned it may be un- necessary to add that the negotiations being by common consent to be hereafter resumed , it is important that this communication should be re- garded by the Senate as strictly confidential . JAMES MONROE ...
... returned it may be un- necessary to add that the negotiations being by common consent to be hereafter resumed , it is important that this communication should be re- garded by the Senate as strictly confidential . JAMES MONROE ...
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... returned them with an informal note , suggesting an alter- ation or a query . If a doubt of any importance arose , he reserved it for conference . By this means he was always in accurate possession of all facts and proceedings in every ...
... returned them with an informal note , suggesting an alter- ation or a query . If a doubt of any importance arose , he reserved it for conference . By this means he was always in accurate possession of all facts and proceedings in every ...
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... returned to the Commissioner of Bureau Refugees , Freed- men , etc. The records of this office show that B. B. Leake was specially pardoned by the President on the 27th ultimo , and was thereby restored to all his rights of property ...
... returned to the Commissioner of Bureau Refugees , Freed- men , etc. The records of this office show that B. B. Leake was specially pardoned by the President on the 27th ultimo , and was thereby restored to all his rights of property ...
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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...