A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Volum 4

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D. Appleton, 1895
 

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Side 369 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You...
Side 576 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Side 449 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Side 580 - the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States.
Side 573 - 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 mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Side 362 - That no goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation.
Side 35 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Side 404 - An act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements;" and which sets apart and pledges funds " for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses, in order to facilitate, promote, and give security to internal commerce among the several states, and to render more easy and less expensive the means and provisions for the common defence...
Side 455 - From their nature, and from the peculiar character of the Treaty of 1783, by which they were recognized, no further stipulation has been deemed necessary by the Government of the United States, to entitle them to the full enjoyment of all of them.
Side 114 - A Collection of Sundry Publications and Other Documents, in Relation to the Attack made during the Late War upon the Private armed Brig, General Armstrong...

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