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... plates of four inches thick . She is spoon bowed , and her bottom is nearly flat . Built at Glasgow in 1856. Plan as ... plates will not always offer resistance to heavy shot . Experienced naval offi- cers seem to think they will be more ...
... plates of four inches thick . She is spoon bowed , and her bottom is nearly flat . Built at Glasgow in 1856. Plan as ... plates will not always offer resistance to heavy shot . Experienced naval offi- cers seem to think they will be more ...
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... plates and maps , and at the request of the chairman of the Committee on Public Printing , your memorialist furnished a costly map , and revised and added to the report . The only compensation ever received by your memorialist is ...
... plates and maps , and at the request of the chairman of the Committee on Public Printing , your memorialist furnished a costly map , and revised and added to the report . The only compensation ever received by your memorialist is ...
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... plates and abbreviating the text ; but they have found it impossible to effect this purpose . The manuscripts have been more voluminous than they expected ; the illustrations , also , and the cost of these latter has proved beyond their ...
... plates and abbreviating the text ; but they have found it impossible to effect this purpose . The manuscripts have been more voluminous than they expected ; the illustrations , also , and the cost of these latter has proved beyond their ...
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... plates ; MS . nearly ready ; 55 plates finished . Botany , by A. Gray , vol . 18 , and atlas , to contain 100 plates ; MS . nearly ready ; 19 drawings made . Geography of Plants , by Dr. Pickering , vol . 19 , no atlas ; MS . com- plete ...
... plates ; MS . nearly ready ; 55 plates finished . Botany , by A. Gray , vol . 18 , and atlas , to contain 100 plates ; MS . nearly ready ; 19 drawings made . Geography of Plants , by Dr. Pickering , vol . 19 , no atlas ; MS . com- plete ...
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... plates - Engraving Narrative and other plates Engraving charts and maps Lettering chart and Natural History plates Lithography for vol . 10 , Geology - - 250 00 350 00 560 00 - 600 00 100 00 150 00 1,100 00 6,933 50 41,189 13 - 16,808 ...
... plates - Engraving Narrative and other plates Engraving charts and maps Lettering chart and Natural History plates Lithography for vol . 10 , Geology - - 250 00 350 00 560 00 - 600 00 100 00 150 00 1,100 00 6,933 50 41,189 13 - 16,808 ...
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2d Session 34th Congress 82 copies accompany Bill acres agent alleged allowed amount Answer atlas authorized boats Built Captain carried the mail cent Choctaws claim claimants Cleveland Colonel Commissioned Commissioner committee compensation Congress consideration contract court Cuba Detroit Devonport district attorney dollars duty election Engineers entitled expense February FEBRUARY 19 following REPORT frigates Graham N grant guns Haym Salomon honor hundred Indian instructions island January JANUARY 25 John land letter Lime Point March memorialist ment Milwaukie navy obedient servant opinion paid papers patent pension petitioner plates Portsmouth post office Postmaster present printed purchase Question received resolution respectfully Richardson route S. R. Throckmorton sailing ship San Francisco Sandusky screw frigates Secretary Secretary of War Senate Spain steam reserve steamboats steamers submitted the following tion Torre tract treasury treaty United United States Attorney Washington
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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.