State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency: Exhibiting a Complete View of Our Foreign Relations Since that Time ...Thomas B. Wait, 1817 - United States |
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... commerce by French cruisers 113 Letter from Mr. Pickering , Secretary of State , to Mr. Pinckney , Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris , dated Jan. 16 , 1797 Correspondence between Secretary of State and French ministers Adet ...
... commerce by French cruisers 113 Letter from Mr. Pickering , Secretary of State , to Mr. Pinckney , Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris , dated Jan. 16 , 1797 Correspondence between Secretary of State and French ministers Adet ...
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... commerce has experienced , you will doubtless . receive with pleasure some eclaircissements on the com- plaints , well or ill founded , which have been brought against privateers and two ships of war of the French Re- publick . You will ...
... commerce has experienced , you will doubtless . receive with pleasure some eclaircissements on the com- plaints , well or ill founded , which have been brought against privateers and two ships of war of the French Re- publick . You will ...
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... commerce , that my inquiry into the facts did not go beyond the alle- gations of the parties interested . My view was to present a summary only of the subjects of the remonstrances , lodged in my office ; reserving the proofs for our ...
... commerce , that my inquiry into the facts did not go beyond the alle- gations of the parties interested . My view was to present a summary only of the subjects of the remonstrances , lodged in my office ; reserving the proofs for our ...
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... commerce . It is the common interest of mankind , that a culture , which like that of the soil fur- nishes sustenance and employment to so great a proportion of them , should not be interrupted or suspended because two nations are ...
... commerce . It is the common interest of mankind , that a culture , which like that of the soil fur- nishes sustenance and employment to so great a proportion of them , should not be interrupted or suspended because two nations are ...
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... commerce being almost entirely prosecuted by the then ruling party of France , it could no longer be regarded as a mercantile speculation of indi- viduals , but as an immediate operation of the very persons who had declared and were ...
... commerce being almost entirely prosecuted by the then ruling party of France , it could no longer be regarded as a mercantile speculation of indi- viduals , but as an immediate operation of the very persons who had declared and were ...
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Page 167 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 46 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 110 - Among the means, which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards, composed of proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 111 - The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never to be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies.
Page 257 - It shall be lawful for the ships of war of either party, and privateers, freely to carry whithersoever they please, the ships and goods taken from their enemies, without being obliged to pay any duty to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges ; nor shall such prizes be arrested or seized...
Page 111 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Page 103 - The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution, and their success must often depend on secrecy; and even when brought to a conclusion a full disclosure of all the measures, demands, or eventual concessions which may have been proposed or contemplated would be extremely impolitic ; for this might have a pernicious influence on future negotiations, or produce immediate inconveniences, perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other powers.
Page 215 - As soon as the war in Europe had embraced those, powers, with whom the United States have the most extensive relations, there was reason to apprehend, that our intercourse with them might be interrupted, and our disposition for peace drawn into question, by the suspicions too often entertained by belligerent nations.
Page 113 - The situation in which I now stand, for the last time, in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country, on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and Sovereign Arbiter of Nations, that his providential care may still be extended to the United States...
Page 46 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...