A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Հատոր 4Bureau of national literature, 1897 |
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... Mexico was neither desired nor provoked by the United States . On the contrary , all honorable means were resorted to to avert it . After years of endurance of aggravated and unredressed wrongs on our part , Mexico , in violation of ...
... Mexico was neither desired nor provoked by the United States . On the contrary , all honorable means were resorted to to avert it . After years of endurance of aggravated and unredressed wrongs on our part , Mexico , in violation of ...
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... Mexico and the whole world . A more effectual means could not have been devised to encourage the enemy and protract the war than to advocate and adhere to their cause , and thus give them " aid and comfort . " It is a source of national ...
... Mexico and the whole world . A more effectual means could not have been devised to encourage the enemy and protract the war than to advocate and adhere to their cause , and thus give them " aid and comfort . " It is a source of national ...
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... Mexico one more opportunity to atone for the past before we take redress into our own hands . To avoid all misconception on the part of Mexico , as well as to protect our own national character from reproach , this opportunity should be ...
... Mexico one more opportunity to atone for the past before we take redress into our own hands . To avoid all misconception on the part of Mexico , as well as to protect our own national character from reproach , this opportunity should be ...
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... Mexico . Fourteen months only remained to examine and decide upon these numerous and complicated In the month of February , 1842 , the term of the commission expired , leaving many claims undisposed of for want of time . The claims ...
... Mexico . Fourteen months only remained to examine and decide upon these numerous and complicated In the month of February , 1842 , the term of the commission expired , leaving many claims undisposed of for want of time . The claims ...
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... Mexico which were not finally decided by the late commission which met in the city of Washing- ton , and of all claims of the Government and citizens of Mexico against the United States . In conformity with this stipulation , a third ...
... Mexico which were not finally decided by the late commission which met in the city of Washing- ton , and of all claims of the Government and citizens of Mexico against the United States . In conformity with this stipulation , a third ...
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Էջ 2462 - ... that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness, that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Էջ 2462 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Էջ 2639 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Էջ 2462 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Էջ 2372 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Էջ 2443 - One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace, to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which...
Էջ 2440 - In order to designate the boundary line with due precision, upon authoritative maps, and to establish upon the ground landmarks which shall show the limits of both republics, as described in the present article, the two governments shall each appoint a commissioner and a surveyor, who, before the expiration of one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, shall meet at the port of San Diego, and proceed to run and mark the said boundary in its whole course to the mouth of...
Էջ 2460 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.