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... officers of the Custome house of such Port or place from whence the said ship set saile to the value of one thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of lesse burthen then one hundred Tuns , and of the summe of two thousand pounds if the ...
... officers of the Custome house of such Port or place from whence the said ship set saile to the value of one thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of lesse burthen then one hundred Tuns , and of the summe of two thousand pounds if the ...
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... officers , accompanied by the Council , a great many other gentlemen , and a considerable number who came over the ferry , by way of Charlestown . He was met a mile off , by the gentlemen of Cambridge , the Tutors , the Professors ...
... officers , accompanied by the Council , a great many other gentlemen , and a considerable number who came over the ferry , by way of Charlestown . He was met a mile off , by the gentlemen of Cambridge , the Tutors , the Professors ...
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... Officers , one of 1 The Half - King had just returned from a visit to the French at Venango to try to dissuade them from " building houses on the Indians ' land and taking it by force . " The French general had defiantly replied that he ...
... Officers , one of 1 The Half - King had just returned from a visit to the French at Venango to try to dissuade them from " building houses on the Indians ' land and taking it by force . " The French general had defiantly replied that he ...
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... Officer at the near Fort , where he advised me to apply for an Answer . He in- vited us to sup with them : and ... Officers retired to hold a Council of War ; which gave me an Opportunity of taking the Dimensions of the Fort , and ...
... Officer at the near Fort , where he advised me to apply for an Answer . He in- vited us to sup with them : and ... Officers retired to hold a Council of War ; which gave me an Opportunity of taking the Dimensions of the Fort , and ...
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... Officers before our light infantry got up to dislodge them . This grand enterprise was conducted and executed with great good order and discretion ; as fast as we landed the boats put off for rein- forcements , and the troops formed ...
... Officers before our light infantry got up to dislodge them . This grand enterprise was conducted and executed with great good order and discretion ; as fast as we landed the boats put off for rein- forcements , and the troops formed ...
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Page 404 - 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...
Page 272 - ... 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.
Page 173 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 232 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.
Page 380 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored Land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present...
Page 379 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North...
Page 531 - 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 355 - Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 379 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.