Maryland's Influence Upon Land Cessions to the United States, Volumen3N. Murray, publication agent, John Hopkins university, 1885 - 102 páginas |
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... Legislatures for ratification , it was moved " that the United States in Congress assembled , shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Missis- sippi or ...
... Legislatures for ratification , it was moved " that the United States in Congress assembled , shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Missis- sippi or ...
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... legislature as early as December 15 , 1778 , was sent another document , bearing the same date , which was called a Declaration . The design was , as we know from the Instructions themselves , to bring the Declara- tion before Congress ...
... legislature as early as December 15 , 1778 , was sent another document , bearing the same date , which was called a Declaration . The design was , as we know from the Instructions themselves , to bring the Declara- tion before Congress ...
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... legislature of New York " to facilitate the completion . of the Articles of Confederation , " shows most decidedly that Maryland's cause was prevailing . The historic connection of this measure with the influence of Maryland delegates ...
... legislature of New York " to facilitate the completion . of the Articles of Confederation , " shows most decidedly that Maryland's cause was prevailing . The historic connection of this measure with the influence of Maryland delegates ...
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... legislature has for us , in this connection , is the revelation it affords of the growing influence of the Maryland policy in Congress . General Schuyler confesses that the opposition to the original motion [ of Mr. Forbes ] was chiefly ...
... legislature has for us , in this connection , is the revelation it affords of the growing influence of the Maryland policy in Congress . General Schuyler confesses that the opposition to the original motion [ of Mr. Forbes ] was chiefly ...
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... Legislature , if it would not be proper to communicate their pleasure in the premises by way of instruction to their servants in Congress . " Such were the appeals of congressmen to their constituents before national interests were ...
... Legislature , if it would not be proper to communicate their pleasure in the premises by way of instruction to their servants in Congress . " Such were the appeals of congressmen to their constituents before national interests were ...
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Página 83 - I need not remark to you, Sir, that the flanks and rear of the United States are possessed by other powers, and formidable ones too; nor how necessary it is to apply the cement of interest to bind all parts of the Union together by indissoluble bonds, especially that part of it, which lies immediately west of us, with the middle States. For what ties, let me ask, should we have upon...
Página 91 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Página 46 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 5 - Declarations, hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being, in that Part of America called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Northward two hundred Miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea,...
Página 5 - Virginia, from the point of land called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the sea coast to the northward two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid...
Página 91 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Página 29 - ... a liberal surrender of a portion of their territorial claims, since they cannot be preserved entire without endangering the stability of the general confederacy ; to remind them how indispensably necessary it is to establish the federal union on a fixed and permanent basis, and on principles acceptable to all its respective members ; how essential to public credit and confidence...
Página 42 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Página 80 - I know the Yorkers will delay no time to remove every obstacle in the way of the other communication, so soon as the posts of Oswego and Niagara are surrendered...
Página 73 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.