Writings of John Quincy, Adams, Volume 7Macmillan, 1917 Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams. |
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... Foreign Affairs , on his mission to the United States . Pasquier on February 12 informed Gallatin of this conference , who reported to Adams as follows : " General Vivés had told him that the principal points with Spain were that the ...
... Foreign Affairs , on his mission to the United States . Pasquier on February 12 informed Gallatin of this conference , who reported to Adams as follows : " General Vivés had told him that the principal points with Spain were that the ...
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... Foreign Relations , IV . 682. Adams thought this reply " seems to leave the possibility of coming to an agreement with him [ Vivés ] desperate . " 2 Printed in American State Papers , Foreign Relations , IV . 683. The first draft of a ...
... Foreign Relations , IV . 682. Adams thought this reply " seems to leave the possibility of coming to an agreement with him [ Vivés ] desperate . " 2 Printed in American State Papers , Foreign Relations , IV . 683. The first draft of a ...
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... rares . " 1 Printed in American State Papers , Foreign Relations , IV . 685 . should give the solemn promise , in the name of 1820 ] 15 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS To DON FRANCISCO DIONISIO VIVES An unconditional promise declined The absolute.
... rares . " 1 Printed in American State Papers , Foreign Relations , IV . 685 . should give the solemn promise , in the name of 1820 ] 15 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS To DON FRANCISCO DIONISIO VIVES An unconditional promise declined The absolute.
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... ratification necessarily included the non - fulfilment of an- 1 Printed in American State Papers , Foreign Relations , IV . 681 . 2 Ib . , 684 . other compact between the parties which had been ratified — 16 [ 1820 THE WRITINGS OF.
... ratification necessarily included the non - fulfilment of an- 1 Printed in American State Papers , Foreign Relations , IV . 681 . 2 Ib . , 684 . other compact between the parties which had been ratified — 16 [ 1820 THE WRITINGS OF.
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... foreign affairs at Madrid , that the treaty , duly ratified by the United States , had been intrusted to him by the President , and that he was prepared to ex- change it for the ratification of Spain . He added that , from the nature of ...
... foreign affairs at Madrid , that the treaty , duly ratified by the United States , had been intrusted to him by the President , and that he was prepared to ex- change it for the ratification of Spain . He added that , from the nature of ...
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Page 273 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 11 - All the grants of land made before the 24th of January, 1818, by His Catholic Majesty or by his lawful authorities in the said Territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if the Territories had remained under the Dominion of His Catholic Majesty.
Page 353 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 245 - Affaires from France. SIR: Your letter of the nth of last month has been submitted to the consideration of the President of the United States, by whom I am directed to express the high satisfaction that he has felt at the manner in which His Excellency the Viscount de Chateaubriand has noticed in his correspondence with you the temporary absence of Mr.
Page 20 - This treaty shall be ratified, and the respective ratifications shall be exchanged at the city of Washington within the exact period of six months from the date of its signature, or sooner if possible. In testimony whereof we, the Plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties, have hereunto affixed...
Page 321 - States, in justice to the rights of a numerous class of their citizens, was bound to sustain. But with regard to the commercial intercourse between the United States and the British colonies in America, it has been hitherto found impracticable to bring the parties to an understanding satisfactory to both. The relative geographical position, and the respective products of nature, cultivated by human industry, had constituted the elements of a commercial intercourse between the United States and British...
Page 337 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Page 216 - Constitutions, by observing, wherever it was a Contest by Arms, the most impartial Neutrality. But the Civil War, in which Spain was for some Years involved with the Inhabitants of her Colonies in America, has, in substance, ceased to exist. Treaties, equivalent to an acknowledgment of Independence, have been concluded by the Commanders and Vice-Roys of Spain herself, with the...
Page 213 - ... navigating the seas. That right has never been exercised in a spirit unfriendly to Russia ; and, although general complaints have occasionally been made on the subject of this commerce, by some of your Predecessors, no specific ground of charge has ever been alleged by them of any transaction in it, which The United States were, by the ordinary Laws and usages of Nations, bound either to restrain or to punish. Had any such charge been made, it would have received the most pointed attention of...
Page 273 - Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.