A Series of Letters from London: Written During the Years 1856, '57, '58, '59, and '60, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 191 - Coffee and tea, when imported direct from the place of their growth or production in American vessels, or in foreign vessels entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from discriminating duties, tonnage, and other charges.
Page 44 - The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of Her Majesty the Queen on the success of the great international enterprise accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a triumph more glorious because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle.
Page 211 - ... and restricted than when in the hands of an elective chief magistrate and senate. I trust, however, that, should the controversy revive, our representatives may feel themselves, maugre Chancellor Kent, free to be at least as democratic as the British commons. It is noticeable that the precedent of a parliamentary stand against a treaty was made during the ministry of Pitt, almost contemporaneously with Jay's ; and that while on this side of the Atlantic the popular resistance triumphed, by leading...
Page 121 - States, nor recommend any person , at home or abroad, for any employment of trust or profit under the government of the country in which he is located ; nor ask or accept, for himself or any other person, any present, emolument, pecuniary favor, office, or title of any kind, from any such government.
Page 44 - The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President and renewing to him her wishes for the prosperity of the United States.
Page 210 - England the sovereign power, quoad hoc, is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts, therefore, he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist, or annul.
Page 213 - Uussia. 1 1 produces a harmony of action and inculcation that, in a long run, tells conclusively. Mr. Webster's difficulty was in the great labor which it must throw upon somebody in the Department already overtaxed. How that may be, I can't pretend to say, but if there be any use at all in having missions dotted over Europe, they might as well be made to co-operate in the general policy of the Government as run the risk of impeding it by a want of information from the fountain-head.