A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 4Bureau of national literature, 1897 - United States |
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... JAMES D. RICHARDSON . APRIL 27 , 1897 . NOTE . The pages of " The Messages and Papers of the Presidents " have been renumbered from page one to the end , and the division into volumes has been altered . This plan is required by the ...
... JAMES D. RICHARDSON . APRIL 27 , 1897 . NOTE . The pages of " The Messages and Papers of the Presidents " have been renumbered from page one to the end , and the division into volumes has been altered . This plan is required by the ...
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... JAMES K. POLK . WASHINGTON , August 8 , 1846 . To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I invite your attention to the propriety of making an appropriation to provide for any expenditure which it may be ...
... JAMES K. POLK . WASHINGTON , August 8 , 1846 . To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I invite your attention to the propriety of making an appropriation to provide for any expenditure which it may be ...
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... JAMES K. POLK . PROCLAMATIONS . [ From Statutes at Large ( Little & Brown ) , Vol . IX , p . 999. ] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . A PROCLAMATION . Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 3d of ...
... JAMES K. POLK . PROCLAMATIONS . [ From Statutes at Large ( Little & Brown ) , Vol . IX , p . 999. ] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . A PROCLAMATION . Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 3d of ...
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... JAMES K. POLK . By the President : JAMES BUCHANAN , Secretary of State . BY THE PRESIDENT OF The United STATES OF America . A PROCLAMATION . Whereas by the act of Congress approved July 9 , 1846 , entitled " An act to retrocede the ...
... JAMES K. POLK . By the President : JAMES BUCHANAN , Secretary of State . BY THE PRESIDENT OF The United STATES OF America . A PROCLAMATION . Whereas by the act of Congress approved July 9 , 1846 , entitled " An act to retrocede the ...
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... James K. folk , President of the United States of America , do hereby prodaim the jame to all whom it may conean ) : and I do specially enjoin on all persons holding offices , civil or mile . tary , under the authority of the United ...
... James K. folk , President of the United States of America , do hereby prodaim the jame to all whom it may conean ) : and I do specially enjoin on all persons holding offices , civil or mile . tary , under the authority of the United ...
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Page 2462 - ... 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...
Page 2462 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 2639 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 2462 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Page 2372 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 2443 - One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace, to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which...
Page 2440 - In order to designate the boundary line with due precision, upon authoritative maps, and to establish upon the ground landmarks which shall show the limits of both republics, as described in the present article, the two governments shall each appoint a commissioner and a surveyor, who, before the expiration of one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, shall meet at the port of San Diego, and proceed to run and mark the said boundary in its whole course to the mouth of...
Page 2460 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.