A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: Appendix. IndexU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Presidents |
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... Department . To these gentlemen I make proper acknowledgments . The work has met with public favor far beyond all expectations , and words of praise for it have come from all classes and callings . Those who possess it may be assured ...
... Department . To these gentlemen I make proper acknowledgments . The work has met with public favor far beyond all expectations , and words of praise for it have come from all classes and callings . Those who possess it may be assured ...
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... MCKINLEY : MESSAGES , PROCLAMATIONS , AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATING TO THE SPANISH - AMERICAN WAR .. 123-223 INDEX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH .. 125-127 225-677 VII SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Illustrations POST - OFFICE DEPARTMENT ( NEW )
... MCKINLEY : MESSAGES , PROCLAMATIONS , AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATING TO THE SPANISH - AMERICAN WAR .. 123-223 INDEX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH .. 125-127 225-677 VII SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Illustrations POST - OFFICE DEPARTMENT ( NEW )
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... Department . MARCH 29 , 1796. · GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , February 15 , 1797 . Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1796 from the ...
... Department . MARCH 29 , 1796. · GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , February 15 , 1797 . Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1796 from the ...
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... Department of State to Mr. Eaton , May 20 , 1801 . The letter from Mr. Cathcart to Mr. Eaton dated Leghorn , June 15 , 1801 , is not in the offices , but the substance of it is supposed to be recited in those of Mr. Cathcart to the ...
... Department of State to Mr. Eaton , May 20 , 1801 . The letter from Mr. Cathcart to Mr. Eaton dated Leghorn , June 15 , 1801 , is not in the offices , but the substance of it is supposed to be recited in those of Mr. Cathcart to the ...
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... Department of State and are sup- posed to have entered into the views of the House of Representatives . TH : JEFFERSON . JANUARY 5 , 1809 . To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate , for the ...
... Department of State and are sup- posed to have entered into the views of the House of Representatives . TH : JEFFERSON . JANUARY 5 , 1809 . To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate , for the ...
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Page 340 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Page 445 - ... was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 340 - ... the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith ; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid ; the diffusion of information, and...
Page 166 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 417 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 491 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 340 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 493 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 607 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and...
Page 510 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.