The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, Volume 5Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Franklin Jameson, Henry Barrett Learned, James Brown Scott A. A. Knopf, 1928 - Cabinet officers |
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Page 280 - to the point where it struck the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence along the southern boundary of New Mexico "(which runs north of the town called Paso)" to its western termination; thence northward along the western line of New Mexico
Page 397 - according to the plan of said port made in the year 1782 by Don Juan Pantoja, second sailing master of the Spanish Fleet, and published at Madrid in the year 1802 in the Atlas to the Voyage of the Schooners Sutil and Mexicana.
Page 284 - reiterate and reaffirm the principle avowed by Mr. Monroe" and to announce to the world as our settled policy, "that no future European colony or dominion shall, with our consent, be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
Page 284 - to the world as our settled policy, "that no future European colony or dominion shall, with our consent, be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
Page 284 - sincerely desirous of preserving relations of good understanding with all nations, can not in silence permit any European interference on the North American continent, and should any such interference be attempted will be ready to resist it at any and all hazards.
Page 38 - be executed; and these seem neither to require nor to justify any further inquisition into the state of persons or things on board of vessels so situated than may be indispensable to enforce the observance of the municipal law of the colony, and the proper regulation of its harbors and waters.
Page 148 - the avowal for the first time made to this Government, 'that Great Britain desires, and is constantly exerting herself to procure the general abolition of slavery throughout the world.'
Page 263 - to wit: beginning at the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to its source, thence due north to the forty-second degree of north latitude,
Page 191 - that our title to the whole of Oregon was clear and unquestionable, and that no portion of the Same ought to be ceded to England or
Page 159 - to acknowledge the Act of the Government of the United States, authorizing the admission of Texas, as a legal act in any way binding her from using her utmost exertions, in co-operation with other states, by every lawful and Constitutional measure, to annul its conditions and defeat its accomplishment.