The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel: Announcing His Discovery, with Extracts from His JournalA. Lovell, 1892 - 15 pages |
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... Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs , to protest in the name of Her Majesty's Government against such seizure , and to reserve all rights to compensation . - Foreign Relations , 1888 , p . 1746 . 1887 , Jan. 26 ...
... Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs , to protest in the name of Her Majesty's Government against such seizure , and to reserve all rights to compensation . - Foreign Relations , 1888 , p . 1746 . 1887 , Jan. 26 ...
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... Majesty's Gov- ernment defend in the year 1886 a course of conduct in the Behring Sea which she had carefully avoided ever since the dis- covery of that sea ? By what reasoning did Her Majesty's Government conclude that an act may be ...
... Majesty's Gov- ernment defend in the year 1886 a course of conduct in the Behring Sea which she had carefully avoided ever since the dis- covery of that sea ? By what reasoning did Her Majesty's Government conclude that an act may be ...
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... government has been allowed that general control of morals in this respect which Mr. Blaine claims on behalf of the United States in regard to seal - hunting . But Her Majesty's Government must question whether this pursuit can of ...
... government has been allowed that general control of morals in this respect which Mr. Blaine claims on behalf of the United States in regard to seal - hunting . But Her Majesty's Government must question whether this pursuit can of ...
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... Government . Her Majesty's Government do not deny that if all sealing were stopped in Behring Sea except on the islands in posses- sion of the lessees of the United States , the seal may increase and multiply at an even more ...
... Government . Her Majesty's Government do not deny that if all sealing were stopped in Behring Sea except on the islands in posses- sion of the lessees of the United States , the seal may increase and multiply at an even more ...
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... Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs , to protest in the name of Her Majesty's Government against such seizure , and to reserve all rights to compensation . - Foreign Relations , 1888 , p . 1746 . 1887 , Jan. 26 ...
... Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs , to protest in the name of Her Majesty's Government against such seizure , and to reserve all rights to compensation . - Foreign Relations , 1888 , p . 1746 . 1887 , Jan. 26 ...
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Page 11 - 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.
Page 1 - America; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have to or with any State or people for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Page 11 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg, to arrange, by amicable negotiation, the respective rights and interests of the two Nations on the north-west coast of this Continent...
Page 3 - Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...
Page 2 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice...
Page 19 - America, that for the future the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty and those of his Most Christian Majesty in that part of the world shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence by a line drawn along the middle of this river and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Page 11 - The western limit within which the territories and dominion conveyed, are contained, passes through a point in Behring's straits on the parallel of...
Page 9 - It is, nevertheless, understood that during a term of ten years. counting from the signature of the present convention, the ships of both Powers, or which belong to their citizens or subjects respectively, may reciprocally frequent, without any hindrance whatever. the interior seas, gulfs, harbors, and creeks, upon the coast mentioned in the preceding article, for the purpose of fishing and trading with the natives of the country.
Page 21 - The term limited for this emigration shall be fixed to the space of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.
Page 11 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.