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... Throckmorton , a dealer in real estate , in San Francisco . The government , in order to carry out the amendment of Mr. Wel- ler , commenced negotiations with Throckmorton for the purchase of a tract represented by the owner to contain ...
... Throckmorton , a dealer in real estate , in San Francisco . The government , in order to carry out the amendment of Mr. Wel- ler , commenced negotiations with Throckmorton for the purchase of a tract represented by the owner to contain ...
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... proper to be paid by the government , Mr. Throckmorton could not consistently object , as , in his letter of September 4 , 1857 , addressed to the Secretary of War , he intimates a willingness 4 LIME POINT , CALIFORNIA .
... proper to be paid by the government , Mr. Throckmorton could not consistently object , as , in his letter of September 4 , 1857 , addressed to the Secretary of War , he intimates a willingness 4 LIME POINT , CALIFORNIA .
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... Throckmorton , the owner , without any consultation with Mr. Weller as to price , and without any communications between them , as they assert , fixed the price for this property at the precise sum estimated by Mr. Weller at the time ...
... Throckmorton , the owner , without any consultation with Mr. Weller as to price , and without any communications between them , as they assert , fixed the price for this property at the precise sum estimated by Mr. Weller at the time ...
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... Throckmorton to the Secretary of War , dated June 4 , 1857 , without comment : " I will trespass upon your time and indulgence only to add that the price of the tract , viz : two hundred thousand dollars ( $ 200,000 ) is the amount ...
... Throckmorton to the Secretary of War , dated June 4 , 1857 , without comment : " I will trespass upon your time and indulgence only to add that the price of the tract , viz : two hundred thousand dollars ( $ 200,000 ) is the amount ...
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... Throckmorton who seeks to constrain the government to purchase the 1,700 acres , represented by him as 2,300 or 2,400 , at the price of $ 200,000 . 66 In conclusion , the undersigned , from a careful review of all the facts bearing upon ...
... Throckmorton who seeks to constrain the government to purchase the 1,700 acres , represented by him as 2,300 or 2,400 , at the price of $ 200,000 . 66 In conclusion , the undersigned , from a careful review of all the facts bearing upon ...
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Page 2 - I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into .it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 3 - ... 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 connection 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 48 - That the final decrees rendered by the said commissioners, or by the District or Supreme Court of the United States, or any patent to be issued under this act, shall be conclusive between the United States and the said claimants only, and shall not affect the interests of third persons.
Page 14 - Ashburton treaty in 1842, kept up a squadron on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, and we are still bound to continue it.
Page 12 - I should be intrusted with the means of making an advance to the Spanish Government immediately after the signing of the treaty, without awaiting the ratification of it by the Senate. I am encouraged to make this suggestion by the example of Mr. Jefferson previous to the purchase of Louisiana from France and by that of Mr. Polk in view of the acquisition of territory from Mexico. I refer the whole subject to Congress and commend it to their careful consideration.
Page 2 - It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy. And this develops the principle which ought to limit our view. Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it.
Page 2 - Mexico and the other provinces. That would be a price, and I would immediately erect a column on the southernmost limit of Cuba, and inscribe on it a ne plus ultra as to us in that direction. We should then have only to include the north in our Confederacy, which would be of course in the first war, and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation ; and I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government.