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1st quarter Addison Alderman American Answer Benjamin Rush bonds cargo certificates chests close intimacy collection law Collector collusion committed or practised Congress connexion or close connivances Custom House day of January delivered Department deposited in stores Edward Thomson examination feet flagrant neglect Francis H fraudulently furnish Government honor Hyson illegal imported by Edward Inspector Interrogatories JAMES BARBOUR JOHN STEELE keys knowledge law or duty letter Lippincott locks Mackie March Messrs Mexico minutely the extent nations Nicoll obedient servant officer or person permit Peter Mackie Philadelphia Plenipotentiaries port possession President quantity Ques Question received recent frauds committed relation removal of teas Republic of Colombia respectfully revenue RICHARD RUSH SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH Secretary secure ship Spain Spanish surreptitious removal Surveyor suspicions teas imported Thom Thomas Scattergood tion Treasury treaty United vessels wharf wharves WILLIAM MILNOR William Savery wines Woodrop Sims York
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Page 11 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 10 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 81 - ... not to grant any particular favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation, if the concession was conditional.
Page 11 - We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 37 - Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to enter upon and prosecute from time to time such negotiations with the several maritime powers of Europe and America as he may deem expedient for the effectual abolition of the African slave trade and its ultimate denunciation as piracy under the law of nations, by the consent of the civilized world.
Page 7 - 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 11 - The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellow-men on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 7 - And if we can not yet flatter ourselves that this may be accomplished, as advances toward it the establishment of the principle that the friendly flag shall cover the cargo, the curtailment of contraband of war, and the proscription of fictitious paper blockades — engagements which we may reasonably hope will not prove impracticable — will, if successfully inculcated, redound proportionally to our honor and drain the fountain of many a future sanguinary war.
Page 28 - ... nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost...
Page 12 - In the war between those new governments and Spain, we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.