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... Majesty . . . . And having obtained royal grants , . . . with a small ship and eighteen persons he . . . set sail . ; and having wandered about considerably , at last he struck mainland , where , having planted the royal banner and ...
... Majesty . . . . And having obtained royal grants , . . . with a small ship and eighteen persons he . . . set sail . ; and having wandered about considerably , at last he struck mainland , where , having planted the royal banner and ...
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... Majesty [ the King of Spain ] , and took possession of the country in your royal name . The day following , the Governor resolved to make an in- cursion to explore the land , and see what it might contain . . . We took our way towards ...
... Majesty [ the King of Spain ] , and took possession of the country in your royal name . The day following , the Governor resolved to make an in- cursion to explore the land , and see what it might contain . . . We took our way towards ...
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... Majesty to send his subjects thither to dis- cover those parts . ' see · 99 11 d . European Claims in North America about 1565 : Christopher M. Rene Laudonniere : America in 1565 ( A French Hugue- not description of 1565 ) . " That part ...
... Majesty to send his subjects thither to dis- cover those parts . ' see · 99 11 d . European Claims in North America about 1565 : Christopher M. Rene Laudonniere : America in 1565 ( A French Hugue- not description of 1565 ) . " That part ...
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... Majesty had ordered me to represent to him how contrary to good friendship and brotherly feeling it was , that his subjects should dare wish to colonize Virginia , when that was a part of the Spanish Indies . He answered that he had ...
... Majesty had ordered me to represent to him how contrary to good friendship and brotherly feeling it was , that his subjects should dare wish to colonize Virginia , when that was a part of the Spanish Indies . He answered that he had ...
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... Majesty's dominions here all labouring men's houses are in no wise . . . for goodness , to be . compared unto them . . . . It is true there are yet no other artificial fortification but pallisades , whereof almost every plan- tation ...
... Majesty's dominions here all labouring men's houses are in no wise . . . for goodness , to be . compared unto them . . . . It is true there are yet no other artificial fortification but pallisades , whereof almost every plan- tation ...
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Page 302 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
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Page 213 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated " A Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each state, and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside; provided that no person be...
Page 426 - I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 366 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 386 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 186 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Page 192 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none; they are meant for us: they can be meant for no other They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 342 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 359 - Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth, cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of heaven, and the fruits of superior industry, economy and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages, artificial distinctions, to...