The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North-west Coast of North America: Accompanied by a Geographical View and Map of Those Countries, and a Number of Documents as Proofs and Illustrations of the HistoryC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1845 - 492 sider |
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The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North ... Robert Greenhow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1844 |
The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North ... Robert Greenhow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1845 |
The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North ... Robert Greenhow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1845 |
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Side 333 - 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.
Side 490 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Side 474 - River ; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then crossing the said Red River, and.
Side 477 - In case, however, the master of such vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of a part of his merchandise in order to defray his expenses, he shall...
Side 462 - ... one body corporate and politic, in deed and in name, by the name of " The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay...
Side 474 - ... the United States hereby cede to his Catholic Majesty, and renounce forever, all their rights, claims and pretensions, to the territories lying west and south of the above described line; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States, all his rights, claims and pretensions, to any territories east and north of the said line ; and for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories forever.
Side 376 - It became manifest at an early hour of the late negotiations that any attempt for the time being satisfactorily to determine those rights would lead to a protracted discussion, which might embrace in its failure other more pressing matters, and the Executive did not regard it as proper to waive all the advantages of an honorable adjustment of other difficulties of great magnitude and importance because this, not so immediately pressing, stood in the way. Although the difficulty referred to may not...
Side 146 - You are also with the consent of the natives to take possession in the name of the King of Great Britain of convenient situations in such countries as you may discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power, and to distribute among the inhabitants such things as will remain as traces and testimonies of your having been there.
Side 282 - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia. Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent for the purposes of commerce.
Side 316 - To a position of this novel nature Great Britain cannot accede. She knows of no exception to the rule, that all treaties are put an end to by a subsequent war between the same parties...