Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton: Or, Men and Events, at Home and Abroad, During Three Quarters of a CenturyC. Scribner & Company, 1869 - 647 páginas |
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... lands and the public debt - False charges by the Confederate Congress ... 550 APPENDIX . APPENDIX A. Report upon the condition of our foreign relations made to President Jackson by James A. Hamilton , acting Secretary of State ..... 587 ...
... lands and the public debt - False charges by the Confederate Congress ... 550 APPENDIX . APPENDIX A. Report upon the condition of our foreign relations made to President Jackson by James A. Hamilton , acting Secretary of State ..... 587 ...
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... land , during the autumn of 1793 . The yellow fever having broken out in Philadelphia , both my father and mother were attacked by the disease at the same time . As soon as they were sufficiently recovered they set out for Albany ...
... land , during the autumn of 1793 . The yellow fever having broken out in Philadelphia , both my father and mother were attacked by the disease at the same time . As soon as they were sufficiently recovered they set out for Albany ...
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... Land Company to give Mrs. Robert Morris , the widow of the eminent financier of the Revolution , an annuity which supported her comfortably . He also obtained for his friend , Col. Troup , the agency of that Company in the western part ...
... Land Company to give Mrs. Robert Morris , the widow of the eminent financier of the Revolution , an annuity which supported her comfortably . He also obtained for his friend , Col. Troup , the agency of that Company in the western part ...
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... land in Wall- street , at that time one of the fashionable dwelling quarters . These houses were , however , sold while he held the office of Secretary of the Treasury , and the balance , after paying a mortgage on them , went to the ...
... land in Wall- street , at that time one of the fashionable dwelling quarters . These houses were , however , sold while he held the office of Secretary of the Treasury , and the balance , after paying a mortgage on them , went to the ...
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... land in the vicinity of the city . Some of the others , including my father , took the opposite view , and invested in the lands in the northern counties of the State . The wild lands were purchased at a few cents the acre , but they ...
... land in the vicinity of the city . Some of the others , including my father , took the opposite view , and invested in the lands in the northern counties of the State . The wild lands were purchased at a few cents the acre , but they ...
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Página 464 - AND WHEREAS it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Página 606 - 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...
Página 608 - Whereas neither that point of the highlands lying due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and designated in the former treaty of peace between the two Powers as the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, nor the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, has yet been ascertained...
Página 464 - ... of the said Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and all and singular the matters and things therein contained. And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled on all questions which by the said Confederation are submitted to them.
Página 156 - SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of this act, and whenever required by the Secretary of the Treasury, the said corporation shall give the necessary facilities for transferring the public funds from place to place, within the United States, or the territories thereof, and for distributing the same in payment of the public creditors...
Página 613 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass...
Página 606 - 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...
Página 111 - I will here express but one sentiment, which is, that DISMEMBERMENT of our EMPIRE will be a clear sacrifice of great positive advantages, without any counterbalancing good; administering no relief to our real disease, which is DEMOCRACY ; the poison of which, by a subdivision, will only be the more concentrated in each part, and consequently the more virulent.
Página 451 - The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject; my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.
Página 557 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.