A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - 404 من الصفحات |
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... Spain of 1819 is erro- neously referred to as if never ratified . From the minutes of " duly cession of Florida , it appears that the ratifications were exchanged at Washington " on the 22nd February , 1821 . P. 181. Van Buren's Sub ...
... Spain of 1819 is erro- neously referred to as if never ratified . From the minutes of " duly cession of Florida , it appears that the ratifications were exchanged at Washington " on the 22nd February , 1821 . P. 181. Van Buren's Sub ...
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... Spain or France , we may be sure that a set of bold and hardy adventurers , -often mere out- laws , -formed at least a large portion of the first representatives within it of the now dominant Anglo- Saxon element , and have left more or ...
... Spain or France , we may be sure that a set of bold and hardy adventurers , -often mere out- laws , -formed at least a large portion of the first representatives within it of the now dominant Anglo- Saxon element , and have left more or ...
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... Spain ; the successful resistance of two or three million of colonists against the forces of a whole empire . Great indeed , not in its details , since its most sanguinary battles would have been but skir mishes in the wars of the first ...
... Spain ; the successful resistance of two or three million of colonists against the forces of a whole empire . Great indeed , not in its details , since its most sanguinary battles would have been but skir mishes in the wars of the first ...
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... Spain in the sixteenth century— are of momentous importance , internal struggles and re- volutions , mostly bloody ones , assume generally the pro- minent place . The war of the Barons founds the con- stitution . The wars of the Roses ...
... Spain in the sixteenth century— are of momentous importance , internal struggles and re- volutions , mostly bloody ones , assume generally the pro- minent place . The war of the Barons founds the con- stitution . The wars of the Roses ...
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... Spain , Russia ( 1783 ) , with Great Britain ( 1782-1783 ) , with Prussia ( 1785 ) , with the Cherokee Indians ( 1785 ) , who acknowledged them- selves to be under the protection of the United States , and of " no other sovereign ...
... Spain , Russia ( 1783 ) , with Great Britain ( 1782-1783 ) , with Prussia ( 1785 ) , with the Cherokee Indians ( 1785 ) , who acknowledged them- selves to be under the protection of the United States , and of " no other sovereign ...
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الصفحة 63 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
الصفحة 28 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
الصفحة 70 - ... of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
الصفحة 85 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
الصفحة 140 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
الصفحة 27 - States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
الصفحة 120 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
الصفحة 22 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
الصفحة 13 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
الصفحة 139 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...