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... direct negotiation between Daniel Webster , American Secretary of State , and Lord Ashburton , in 1842 . The treaty of 1783 was intended to perpetuate the accepted boundaries between the colony of Mas- sachusetts Bay , then including ...
... direct negotiation between Daniel Webster , American Secretary of State , and Lord Ashburton , in 1842 . The treaty of 1783 was intended to perpetuate the accepted boundaries between the colony of Mas- sachusetts Bay , then including ...
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... direct negotiation with the British Government . Lord Ashburton was sent out in 1842 as a plenipo- tentiary . His experience in public affairs and his relations with American business men made him an excellent negotiator for the matter ...
... direct negotiation with the British Government . Lord Ashburton was sent out in 1842 as a plenipo- tentiary . His experience in public affairs and his relations with American business men made him an excellent negotiator for the matter ...
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... direct to Nootka Sound . It is probable that this place is not far from the head- water of the Mississippi ; which the Americans will soon navigate to its source , when they shall begin to people Louisiana and the interior of New ...
... direct to Nootka Sound . It is probable that this place is not far from the head- water of the Mississippi ; which the Americans will soon navigate to its source , when they shall begin to people Louisiana and the interior of New ...
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... direct new territories , therefore after the Louis- iana Purchase in 1803 the question arose whether the national government had authority to build roads and develop internal improvements at national ex- pense . In fact , such questions ...
... direct new territories , therefore after the Louis- iana Purchase in 1803 the question arose whether the national government had authority to build roads and develop internal improvements at national ex- pense . In fact , such questions ...
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... direct negotiation , though of course neither govern- ment can overlook the fact that the King before issuing such powers to Canada has taken the advice of his Imperial government . All this leads up to another position which has been ...
... direct negotiation , though of course neither govern- ment can overlook the fact that the King before issuing such powers to Canada has taken the advice of his Imperial government . All this leads up to another position which has been ...
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Page 41 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 40 - Successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof; and that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz., II.
Page 41 - Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 80 - ... any interference with or diversion from their natural channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs...
Page 41 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 128 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 52 - Huron ; thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that lake and Lake Superior ; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi ; thence by a line to...
Page 114 - You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies that the Colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have a right to aspire.
Page 70 - ... was it the intention and meaning of said convention of 1825 that there should remain in the exclusive possession of Russia a continuous fringe or strip of coast on the mainland, not exceeding ten marine leagues in width, separating the British possessions from the bays, ports, inlets, havens, and waters of the ocean...
Page 99 - Sea, and it shall be the duty of the President at a timely season in each year to issue his proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one month...