Considering, moreover, that under these peculiar and imperative circumstances a forbearance on the part of the United States to occupy the territory in question, and thereby guard against the confusions and contingencies which threaten it, might be construed... Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 1751811Full view - About this book
| Kendric Charles Babcock - History - 1906 - 386 pages
...themselves of the territory might be construed to the detriment of the claim of the United States ; " that in the hands of the United States it will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment " ; and, finally, that Governor WCC Claiborne, of the Orleans territory,... | |
| Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1907 - 1022 pages
...forbearance by the United States might be construed into a dereliction of their title to West Florida. "In the hands of the United States it will not cease to be the subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment." Hence, the president "deemed it right... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 680 pages
...of the United States to occupy the territory in question, and thereby guard against the confusions and contingencies which threaten it, might be construed...title, or an insensibility to the importance of the state; considering that in the hands of the United States it will not cease to be a subject of fair... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 678 pages
...of the United States to occupy the territory in question, and thereby guard against the confusions and contingencies which threaten it, might be construed...title, or an insensibility to the importance of the state; considering that in the hands of the United States it will riot cease to be a subject of fair... | |
| Henry Addington Bruce - United States - 1909 - 304 pages
...Mississippi to the Perdido, and to govern it as part of his own Territory, with the understanding, however, "that in the hands of the United States it will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment." For this action Madison was bitterly criticised at the time, and has been... | |
| Carl Schurz - United States - 1913 - 852 pages
...commercial laws and of those prohibiting the introduction of slaves I will not read the whole document Considering, finally, that the acts of Congress, though...by a foreign authority, have contemplated also an eventual possession of the said territory by the United States, and are accordingly so framed as in... | |
| Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...savored of conspiracy, Madison by proclamation took possession of most of the province, professing "that in the hands of the United States it will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment" with Spain. England, as the ally of Spain in the war against Napoleon,... | |
| Henry Adams - History - 1986 - 1458 pages
...of the United States to occupy the territory in question, and thereby guard against the confusions and contingencies which threaten it, might be construed...will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment; considering finally that the Acts of Congress, though contemplating a present... | |
| Thomas Dionysius Clark - History - 1996 - 356 pages
...title, the President ordered possession taken of the disputed territory with the understanding that "it will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment." The revolt at Baton Rouge placed Floridians west of the Perdido in a state... | |
| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...of the United States to occupy the territory in question, and thereby guard against the confusions and contingencies which threaten it, might be construed...will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment; considering, finally, that the acts of Congress, though contemplating a... | |
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