Exposition of the Causes and the Consequences of the Boundary Differences Between Great Britain and the United States: Subsequently to Their Adjustment by Arbitration ...Mitchell, Heaton, and Mitchell, 1839 - 95 էջ |
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Exposition of the causes and the consequences of the boundary differences ... David Urquhart (Diplomatist.) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1839 |
Exposition of the Causes and the Consequences of the Boundary Differences ... David Urquhart Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1839 |
Exposition of the Causes and the Consequences of the Boundary Differences ... David Urquhart Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1839 |
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Էջ vii - States stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they or either of them have so refused declined or omitted to act. And His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States hereby agree to refer the report, or reports of the said Commissioners to some friendly Sovereign or State to be then named for that purpose...
Էջ 63 - Of pending questions, the most important is that which exists with the government of Great Britain, in respect to our northeastern boundary. It is with unfeigned regret that the people of the United States must look back upon the abortive efforts made by the executive, for a period of more than half a century, to determine what no nation should suffer long to remain in dispute, the true line which divides its possessions from those of other powers.
Էջ xii - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Էջ xiii - Whereas reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience are found by experience to form the only permanent foundation of peace and friendship between states, it is agreed to form the articles of the proposed treaty on such principles of liberal equity and reciprocity as that partial advantages (those seeds of discord) being excluded, Much a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries may be established as to promise and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony.
Էջ 63 - ... perhaps, was not indispensable to a faithful performance of the duties of the Federal Government. Time has, however, changed this state of things, and has brought about a condition of affairs in which the true interests of both countries imperatively require that this question should be put at rest. It is not to be disguised that, with full confidence, often expressed, in the desire of the British Government to terminate it, we are apparently as far from its adjustment as we were at the time...
Էջ xiv - Some crimes, by their magnitude, have a touch of the sublime ; and to this dignity the seizure of Texas by our citizens is entitled. Modern times furnish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale. It is nothing less than the robbery of a realm. The pirate seizes a ship. The colonists and their coadjutors can satisfy themselves 20 with nothing short of an empire.
Էջ xii - John to the South End of the Lake Nipisson ; from whence the said Line crossing the River St. Lawrence and the Lake Champlain in forty-five Degrees of North Latitude, passes along the Highlands which divide the Rivers that Empty themselves into the said River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Sea, and also along the North Coast of the Bay des Chaleurs and the Coast of the Gulph of St.
Էջ xiv - Texas is a country conquered by our citizens ; and the annexation of it to our Union will be the beginning of conquests, which, unless arrested and beaten back by a just and kind Providence, will stop only at the Isthmus of Dnrien.
Էջ xiv - We boast of our rapid growth, forgetting that, throughout nature, noble growths are slow. Our people throw themselves beyond the bounds of civilization, and expose themselves to relapses into a semi-barbarous state, under the impulse of wild imagination, and for the name of great possessions. Perhaps there is no people on earth, on whom the ties of local attachment sit so loosely. Even the wandering tribes of Scythia are bound to one spot, the graves of their fathers ; but the homes and graves of...
Էջ viii - That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a Commission for inquiring into the defects, occasioned by time and otherwise, in the Laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.