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... trade of the region , because the valley was necessary if they were to weld Canada and Louisiana into one imperial colony , and because by holding it they would restrict the English to the seacoast . They prepared , there- fore , to ...
... trade of the region , because the valley was necessary if they were to weld Canada and Louisiana into one imperial colony , and because by holding it they would restrict the English to the seacoast . They prepared , there- fore , to ...
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... trade . They were accustomed to discuss difficult problems with able men , and to recognize the necessity of compromise . In one re- spect their peculiar experience as colonists prepared them even to take the lead in a new departure in ...
... trade . They were accustomed to discuss difficult problems with able men , and to recognize the necessity of compromise . In one re- spect their peculiar experience as colonists prepared them even to take the lead in a new departure in ...
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... trade . When communication between England and America was cut off and British war vessels began to patrol the American coast , the safest expedient was to drop with the generally favoring winds into the maze of West Indian islands to ...
... trade . When communication between England and America was cut off and British war vessels began to patrol the American coast , the safest expedient was to drop with the generally favoring winds into the maze of West Indian islands to ...
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... trade with the United States would become a pastime for the traf- ficker , and the policy of attrition which she had been at- tempting since 1779 would be nothing but a dead letter . War with Holland without offence to the northern ...
... trade with the United States would become a pastime for the traf- ficker , and the policy of attrition which she had been at- tempting since 1779 would be nothing but a dead letter . War with Holland without offence to the northern ...
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... trade . International trade , however , is as dependent upon legalized relationships as is domestic trade upon the preservation of law and order ; and in the eighteenth century such legal basis must depend , even more than in the ...
... trade . International trade , however , is as dependent upon legalized relationships as is domestic trade upon the preservation of law and order ; and in the eighteenth century such legal basis must depend , even more than in the ...
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Page 448 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 212 - 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 212 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its Powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us...
Page 212 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord.
Page 456 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese (erritorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 345 - First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace ; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike...
Page 301 - Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power...
Page 392 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 462 - The policy of both governments, uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies, is directed to the maintenance of the existing status quo in the region above mentioned and to the defense of the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and industry in China.
Page 149 - 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.