American Historical Documents: 1000-1904Charles William Eliot P. F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 491 páginas Including: Voyages to Vinland; Letter of Columbus announcing his discovery; Amerigo Vespucci's account; John Cabot's discovery of North America; First Charter of Virginia; Mayflower Compact; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; 1783 treaty with Great Britain; 1083 treaty with France (Lousiana Purchase); 1850 Fugitive Slave act; 1865 Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox; 1867 treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase); 1904 convention btw. the US and Panama; and others. |
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... ) ( 1814 ) ARRANGEMENT AS TO THE NAVAL FORCE TO BE RESPECTIVELY MAINTAINED ON THE AMERICAN LAKES ( 1817 ) MC XLIII ( 1 ) 1 320230 • 222 · · 241 · 246 250 · · 267 273 · 283 TREATY WITH SPAIN ( ACQUISITION OF FLORIDA ) ( 1819.
... ) ( 1814 ) ARRANGEMENT AS TO THE NAVAL FORCE TO BE RESPECTIVELY MAINTAINED ON THE AMERICAN LAKES ( 1817 ) MC XLIII ( 1 ) 1 320230 • 222 · · 241 · 246 250 · · 267 273 · 283 TREATY WITH SPAIN ( ACQUISITION OF FLORIDA ) ( 1819.
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... SPAIN ( CESSION OF PORTO RICO AND THE PHILIPPINES ) ( 1898 ) CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE RE- 469 450 453 459 · 464 467 PUBLIC OF PANAMA ( 1904 ) · • • 478 INTRODUCTORY NOTE No final history of the United States of 2 ...
... SPAIN ( CESSION OF PORTO RICO AND THE PHILIPPINES ) ( 1898 ) CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE RE- 469 450 453 459 · 464 467 PUBLIC OF PANAMA ( 1904 ) · • • 478 INTRODUCTORY NOTE No final history of the United States of 2 ...
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... Spain in the month of May . Some of them were covered with blossoms , some with fruit , and some in other conditions , according to their kind . The nightingale and other small birds of a thousand kinds were singing in the month of ...
... Spain in the month of May . Some of them were covered with blossoms , some with fruit , and some in other conditions , according to their kind . The nightingale and other small birds of a thousand kinds were singing in the month of ...
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... Spain from Cata- lonia to Fuentarabia in Biscay , since upon one of its four sides I sailed one hundred and eighty - eight leagues from west to east . This is worth having , and must on no ac- count be given up . I have taken possession ...
... Spain from Cata- lonia to Fuentarabia in Biscay , since upon one of its four sides I sailed one hundred and eighty - eight leagues from west to east . This is worth having , and must on no ac- count be given up . I have taken possession ...
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... Spain to the Indies , where there are no men . These women have no feminine occupation , but use bows and arrows of cane like those before mentioned , and cover and arm themselves with plates of copper , of which they have a great ...
... Spain to the Indies , where there are no men . These women have no feminine occupation , but use bows and arrows of cane like those before mentioned , and cover and arm themselves with plates of copper , of which they have a great ...
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Página 343 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 446 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...
Página 198 - Person. (2) The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. (3) No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (4) No Capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Página 296 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Página 197 - 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. 14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
Página 174 - Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated — establishing and regulating post-offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing thro' the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office — appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers — appointing...
Página 468 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 338 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend, and maintain itself. In doing this, there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority.
Página 196 - States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States: 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5.
Página 263 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one People, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose...