The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: 1795-1799G. P. Putnam's sons, 1895 - Legislators |
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... Liston's Letter - Bingham's Letter about Stuart's Portrait of Washington to Marquis of Landsdowne - And about Gov. Blount - R . King to Wm . Hindman CHAPTER XVI . · 190 Maryland Bank Stock - Mr . King advises no partial Regulations ...
... Liston's Letter - Bingham's Letter about Stuart's Portrait of Washington to Marquis of Landsdowne - And about Gov. Blount - R . King to Wm . Hindman CHAPTER XVI . · 190 Maryland Bank Stock - Mr . King advises no partial Regulations ...
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... Liston's Conduct - R . King declines a Dinner offered by American Merchants - Gen . La- fayette R. King to the Secretary of State , thanking him for regular Information of the Affairs of the U. S. , and sending to him an Account of ...
... Liston's Conduct - R . King declines a Dinner offered by American Merchants - Gen . La- fayette R. King to the Secretary of State , thanking him for regular Information of the Affairs of the U. S. , and sending to him an Account of ...
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... - Cabot , Conversation with Liston- Praise of King - England's Power and Policy - Hindman - Result of the Elections - Pickering to King - Alien and Sedition Laws - Vir- ginia and Kentucky call for their Repeal - King to CONTENTS . xvii.
... - Cabot , Conversation with Liston- Praise of King - England's Power and Policy - Hindman - Result of the Elections - Pickering to King - Alien and Sedition Laws - Vir- ginia and Kentucky call for their Repeal - King to CONTENTS . xvii.
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... Liston's conduct has been satisfactory to us . Mr. Liston had transmitted an account of the base and humiliating treatment of Captain Jessup by Capt . Pigot before I received your letter of the 10th of September and the Lords of the ...
... Liston's conduct has been satisfactory to us . Mr. Liston had transmitted an account of the base and humiliating treatment of Captain Jessup by Capt . Pigot before I received your letter of the 10th of September and the Lords of the ...
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... the Lords of the Admiralty , and from which you will perceive that previously to any complaint having been made by yourself or the Govern- ment of the United States to Mr. Liston , directions 1796 ] 115 LIFE AND correspONDENCE .
... the Lords of the Admiralty , and from which you will perceive that previously to any complaint having been made by yourself or the Govern- ment of the United States to Mr. Liston , directions 1796 ] 115 LIFE AND correspONDENCE .
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Page 446 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 43 - As, therefore, it is perfectly clear to my understanding that the assent of the House of Representatives is not necessary to the validity of a treaty; as the treaty with Great Britain exhibits in itself all the objects requiring legislative provision, and on these the papers called for can throw no light, and as it is essential to the due administration of the Government that the boundaries fixed by the Constitution between the different departments should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution...
Page 39 - Gentlemen of the house of representatives, " With the utmost attention I have considered your resolution of the 24th instant, requesting me to lay before your house, a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States, who negotiated the treaty with the king of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers, as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
Page 580 - Constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy : that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits...
Page 659 - The sentiments I entertain with regard to that object, have been long since in your knowledge, but I could personally have no participation in it, unless patronized by the government of this country. It was my wish that matters had been ripened for a co-operation in the course of this fall on the part of this country. But this can now scarcely be the case.
Page 368 - President Adams wrote to Secretary of State Pickering, "as to be very willing to grant passports to Du Pont de Nemours or any other French philosophers, in the present situation of our country. We have had too many French philosophers already, and I really begin to think, or rather to suspect, that learned academies, not under the immediate inspection and control of government, have disorganized the world, and are incompatible with social order.
Page 581 - That the several States who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction, and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.
Page 37 - ... the most sanguine calculations; while every part of the United States displays indications of rapid and various improvement; while we are in the enjoyment of protection and security by mild and wholesome laws, administered by governments founded on the genuine principles of rational liberty, a secure foundation will be laid for accelerating, maturing, and establishing the prosperity of our country if, by treaty and amicable negotiation, all those causes of external discord which heretofore menaced...
Page 659 - But this can now scarcely be the case. The winter, however, may mature the project, and an effectual co-operation by the United States may take place. In this case I shall be happy, in my official station, to be an instrument of so good a work.
Page 34 - Indian neighbors with whom we have been in a state of enmity or misunderstanding, opens a wide field for consoling and gratifying reflections. If by prudence and moderation on every side the extinguishment of all the causes of external discord which have heretofore...