State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency: Exhibiting a Complete View of Our Foreign Relations Since that Time ...Thomas B. Wait, 1819 - United States |
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... sent my first lieutenant on board to examine if they had any Ame- rican prisoners ; on his attempting to execute my orders , he was prevented by the captain of the cruiser . This in- creased my suspicion , and I sent a boat with armed ...
... sent my first lieutenant on board to examine if they had any Ame- rican prisoners ; on his attempting to execute my orders , he was prevented by the captain of the cruiser . This in- creased my suspicion , and I sent a boat with armed ...
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... sent to Tangier . I have re- ceived a paper from them written in Moorish , which they say is their authority from the governour of Tangier for so doing . I enclose this to John Gavino , Esq . with a par- ticular request to have it ...
... sent to Tangier . I have re- ceived a paper from them written in Moorish , which they say is their authority from the governour of Tangier for so doing . I enclose this to John Gavino , Esq . with a par- ticular request to have it ...
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... sent European war , except in the recent aggressions of the emperor of Morocco . With very high respect , I have the honour to be , sir , your most obedient servant , JAMES MADISON . The President of the United States . Abstract of ...
... sent European war , except in the recent aggressions of the emperor of Morocco . With very high respect , I have the honour to be , sir , your most obedient servant , JAMES MADISON . The President of the United States . Abstract of ...
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... sent into that sea , and the energy of the officers having command in the several vessels , will , I trust , by the sufferings of war , reduce the barbarians of Tripoli to the desire of peace on proper terms . Great injury how- ever ...
... sent into that sea , and the energy of the officers having command in the several vessels , will , I trust , by the sufferings of war , reduce the barbarians of Tripoli to the desire of peace on proper terms . Great injury how- ever ...
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... sent war , to take such measures as shall appear to them the most proper for suppressing the illegal proceedings complained of on the part of those individuals , citizens of the United States , who shall appear to be concerned in them ...
... sent war , to take such measures as shall appear to them the most proper for suppressing the illegal proceedings complained of on the part of those individuals , citizens of the United States , who shall appear to be concerned in them ...
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Page 458 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Page 24 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 23 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 65 - Formal war is not necessary, it is not probable it will follow ; but the protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. It will probably contribute to advance the object of peace. But the course to be pursued will require the command of means which it belongs to Congress exclusively to yield or to deny.
Page 52 - Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth...
Page 49 - The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These, covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of property and produce.
Page 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 459 - The present consideration of a national establishment for education, particularly, is rendered proper by this circumstance also, that if Congress, approving the proposition, shall yet think it more eligible to found it on a donation of lands, they have it now in their power to endow it with those which will be among the earliest to produce the necessary income. This foundation would have the advantage of being independent on war, which may suspend other improvements by requiring for its own purposes...
Page 259 - Edward*, a public notary in and for the State of New York, by letters patent under the great seal of the said State, duly commissioned and sworn...
Page 487 - ... thereat. And the commanders of his Majesty's ships of war and privateers shall be, and are hereby instructed to warn every neutral vessel coming from any such port, and destined to another such port, to discontinue her voyage, and not to proceed to any such port ; and any vessel after being so warned, or any vessel coming from any such port, after a reasonable time shall have been afforded for receiving information of this, his Majesty's order, which shall be found proceeding to another such...