Writings of John Quincy, Adams, Volume 7Macmillan, 1917 Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams. |
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... vessels . Trial of offenders . The American proposal better adapted to secure the end . August 16. TO THE PRESIDENT 171 176 Clay's claim for a half outfit . Asks to be freed from preparing a statement . No feeling because of Clay's ...
... vessels . Trial of offenders . The American proposal better adapted to secure the end . August 16. TO THE PRESIDENT 171 176 Clay's claim for a half outfit . Asks to be freed from preparing a statement . No feeling because of Clay's ...
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... vessels . Commercial agent Lowry . Free ships and free goods . Information on Colombia wanted . Rule of guidance . June 19. TO CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL Comparison between American and European insti- tutions . Superiority in political ...
... vessels . Commercial agent Lowry . Free ships and free goods . Information on Colombia wanted . Rule of guidance . June 19. TO CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL Comparison between American and European insti- tutions . Superiority in political ...
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... vessel in making the entry at the custom house . The Nordberg , a Danish vessel , was taken and the prize master did personate the Danish captain in making entry of her at Savannah . Clintock's story is that these instructions were in ...
... vessel in making the entry at the custom house . The Nordberg , a Danish vessel , was taken and the prize master did personate the Danish captain in making entry of her at Savannah . Clintock's story is that these instructions were in ...
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... vessels with South American commissions , Baltimore captains , and not a South American among their crews . I take the liberty of submitting to your consideration whether it will not be proper to instruct Mr. Prevost , Mr. Forbes , and ...
... vessels with South American commissions , Baltimore captains , and not a South American among their crews . I take the liberty of submitting to your consideration whether it will not be proper to instruct Mr. Prevost , Mr. Forbes , and ...
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... vessel and recruit men and go to sea , under the nose of all the revenue officers of the United States , merely by the paltry evasion of calling his vessel the Wilson , and his co - pirate George Wilson her commander . Weedon says that ...
... vessel and recruit men and go to sea , under the nose of all the revenue officers of the United States , merely by the paltry evasion of calling his vessel the Wilson , and his co - pirate George Wilson her commander . Weedon says that ...
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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.