A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1907, Volume 5Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1897 - United States |
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... remain strictly neutral , while our geograph- ical position , the genius of our institutions and our people , the advancing spirit of civilization , and , above all , the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and ...
... remain strictly neutral , while our geograph- ical position , the genius of our institutions and our people , the advancing spirit of civilization , and , above all , the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and ...
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... remain , bound by the strongest ties of amity . Shortly after I had entered upon the discharge of the Executive duties I was apprised that a war steamer belonging to the German Empire was being fitted out in the harbor of New York with ...
... remain , bound by the strongest ties of amity . Shortly after I had entered upon the discharge of the Executive duties I was apprised that a war steamer belonging to the German Empire was being fitted out in the harbor of New York with ...
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... remain strictly neutral , I shall not abandon it . You will perceive from the correspondence sub- mitted to you in connection with this subject that the course adopted in this case has been properly regarded by the belligerent powers ...
... remain strictly neutral , I shall not abandon it . You will perceive from the correspondence sub- mitted to you in connection with this subject that the course adopted in this case has been properly regarded by the belligerent powers ...
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... remain on our statute books , I hold it to be the duty of the Executive faithfully to obey its injunctions . While this expedition was in progress I was informed that a foreigner who claimed our protection had been clandestinely and ...
... remain on our statute books , I hold it to be the duty of the Executive faithfully to obey its injunctions . While this expedition was in progress I was informed that a foreigner who claimed our protection had been clandestinely and ...
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... remains , the proudest monument to their memory and the object of affection and admiration with everyone worthy to bear the American name . In my judgment its dissolution would be the greatest of calami- ties , and to avert that should ...
... remains , the proudest monument to their memory and the object of affection and admiration with everyone worthy to bear the American name . In my judgment its dissolution would be the greatest of calami- ties , and to avert that should ...
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Page 403 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 105 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 118 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or State, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are [at] peace, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned...
Page 588 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain, having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Page 334 - SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 334 - States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered...
Page 452 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 624 - ... in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes;...
Page 588 - ... and that the same canals or railways being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms shall also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford.
Page 634 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.