Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ; Miscellaneous lettersLittle, Brown and Company, 1853 |
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... undersigned , comprising two official letters from Mr. Forsyth to the undersigned , dated ' the 26th and 30th of the same month , upon the subject of the arrest and imprison- ment of Mr. Alexander McLeod , of Upper Canada , by the au ...
... undersigned , comprising two official letters from Mr. Forsyth to the undersigned , dated ' the 26th and 30th of the same month , upon the subject of the arrest and imprison- ment of Mr. Alexander McLeod , of Upper Canada , by the au ...
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... undersigned of the 26th of December , " a most unjustifiable invasion , in time of peace , of the territory of the United States . " But this is a question especially of a political and international kind , which can be discussed and ...
... undersigned of the 26th of December , " a most unjustifiable invasion , in time of peace , of the territory of the United States . " But this is a question especially of a political and international kind , which can be discussed and ...
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... undersigned is hereupon instructed to say , that , although the circumstance itself makes no difference in the political and international question at issue , and although her Majesty's gov- ernment do not demand Mr. McLeod's release ...
... undersigned is hereupon instructed to say , that , although the circumstance itself makes no difference in the political and international question at issue , and although her Majesty's gov- ernment do not demand Mr. McLeod's release ...
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... undersigned supposes , can the arm of the executive power interfere , directly or forcibly , to release or deliver the prisoner . His discharge must be sought in a manner conformable to the principles of law , and the pro- ceedings of ...
... undersigned supposes , can the arm of the executive power interfere , directly or forcibly , to release or deliver the prisoner . His discharge must be sought in a manner conformable to the principles of law , and the pro- ceedings of ...
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... undersigned has the honor herewith to inclose . The indictment against McLeod is pending in a State court ; but his rights , whatever they may be , are no less safe , it is to be presumed , than if he were holden to answer in one of the ...
... undersigned has the honor herewith to inclose . The indictment against McLeod is pending in a State court ; but his rights , whatever they may be , are no less safe , it is to be presumed , than if he were holden to answer in one of the ...
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Página 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of 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...
Página 548 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of 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,...
Página 588 - 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.
Página 111 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Página 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Página 365 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Página 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Página 151 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Página 364 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Página 477 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...