America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected with the Present Social, Political, Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial State of the Country, Its Laws and Customs, Together with a Review of the Policy of the United States that Led to the War of 1812, and Peace of 1814--the "right of Search," the Texas and Oregon Questions, Etc. Etc, Volume 2 |
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... Britain ; and point out to an act of the Federal Government , so far back as the year 1787 , prohibiting slavery in the VOL . II . B .4 SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . immense territory north SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . 3.
... Britain ; and point out to an act of the Federal Government , so far back as the year 1787 , prohibiting slavery in the VOL . II . B .4 SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . immense territory north SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . 3.
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... Britain , that such slaves as might perchance escape into her Canadian , and other colonial possessions , should be summarily given up , or else their citizens fully in- demnified for the loss , by reason of her neglect , or refusal to ...
... Britain , that such slaves as might perchance escape into her Canadian , and other colonial possessions , should be summarily given up , or else their citizens fully in- demnified for the loss , by reason of her neglect , or refusal to ...
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... Britain ; particularly , in the instance of an American vessel that had been forced into some of the ports of the Bahama islands . But the right , since then , has been disavowed by the British minister , espe- cially on a very late ...
... Britain ; particularly , in the instance of an American vessel that had been forced into some of the ports of the Bahama islands . But the right , since then , has been disavowed by the British minister , espe- cially on a very late ...
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... Britain recognizing the prin- ciple it involved , and which it so audaciously endea- voured to establish , as an ingredient in the admitted law of nations , could scarcely have been considered as to its apparent object , or with the ...
... Britain recognizing the prin- ciple it involved , and which it so audaciously endea- voured to establish , as an ingredient in the admitted law of nations , could scarcely have been considered as to its apparent object , or with the ...
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... Britain , who had made so many and admitted sacrifices in evidencing her sincerity , would hearken to every irrational and ill - timed re- monstrance that America might choose to put forth , in her effort to sustain an abhorrent and ...
... Britain , who had made so many and admitted sacrifices in evidencing her sincerity , would hearken to every irrational and ill - timed re- monstrance that America might choose to put forth , in her effort to sustain an abhorrent and ...
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