The Statesman's Manual: The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, Inaugural, Annual, and Special, from 1789 to 1851 ; with a Memoir of Each of the Presidents, and a History of Their Administrations, Also the Constitution of the United States, and a Selection of Important Documents and Statistical Information, Volume 4E. Walker, 1853 - Presidents |
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Page 1698
... minister plenipotentiary to the United States will shortly be appointed by his imperial majesty ; and it is hoped that he will come instructed and prepared to adjust all remaining differences between the two governments in a manner ...
... minister plenipotentiary to the United States will shortly be appointed by his imperial majesty ; and it is hoped that he will come instructed and prepared to adjust all remaining differences between the two governments in a manner ...
Page 1726
... minister plenipotentiary of the United States to that republic ; " and requesting the president also to " communicate all the or- ders and correspondence of the government in relation to the return of General Paredes to Mexico . " I ...
... minister plenipotentiary of the United States to that republic ; " and requesting the president also to " communicate all the or- ders and correspondence of the government in relation to the return of General Paredes to Mexico . " I ...
Page 1732
... minister plenipotentiary to Mexico ; a copy of the instructions given to Mr. Trist in April last , and such of the correspondence of the latter with the department of state , not heretofore communicated to Congress , as will enable the ...
... minister plenipotentiary to Mexico ; a copy of the instructions given to Mr. Trist in April last , and such of the correspondence of the latter with the department of state , not heretofore communicated to Congress , as will enable the ...
Page 1736
... minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris , giving official information of the overthrow of the French monarch , and the establishment in its stead of a provisional government based on republican principles . This great ...
... minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris , giving official information of the overthrow of the French monarch , and the establishment in its stead of a provisional government based on republican principles . This great ...
Page 1757
... minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico has been received and accredited , and a diplo- matic representative from Mexico of similar rank has been received and accredited by this government . The amicable relations ...
... minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico has been received and accredited , and a diplo- matic representative from Mexico of similar rank has been received and accredited by this government . The amicable relations ...
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Page 1795 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 1797 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective...
Page 1506 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 1797 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Page 1509 - Letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several Legislatures in order to be submitted to a Convention of Delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the Resolves of the Convention made and provided in that case.
Page 1484 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 1713 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 1803 - The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 1713 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Page 1508 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.