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... Negotiations with New Orleans -- Indian negotiations . CHAPTER V. [ page 58 . Recapture of St. Vincents by the British -- Plans against Americans --- French volunteers- March to St. Vincents ---- Capture - Return to Kaskaskia . CHAPTER ...
... Negotiations with New Orleans -- Indian negotiations . CHAPTER V. [ page 58 . Recapture of St. Vincents by the British -- Plans against Americans --- French volunteers- March to St. Vincents ---- Capture - Return to Kaskaskia . CHAPTER ...
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... Negotiation with Judge Sebastian in 1795 and 1797 ---- First conflict between the court of Appeals and the Legislature . CHAPTER XV . [ page 235 Land Laws of Kentucky - Dissatisfaction with the Constitution of 1792 - Gov . Garrard- John ...
... Negotiation with Judge Sebastian in 1795 and 1797 ---- First conflict between the court of Appeals and the Legislature . CHAPTER XV . [ page 235 Land Laws of Kentucky - Dissatisfaction with the Constitution of 1792 - Gov . Garrard- John ...
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... negotiation , " that the Five Nations were by origin , or by right of conquest , the lawful proprietors of the river Ohio , and the territory in ques- tion . " In pursuance of this ancient aboriginal title , the author may not omit the ...
... negotiation , " that the Five Nations were by origin , or by right of conquest , the lawful proprietors of the river Ohio , and the territory in ques- tion . " In pursuance of this ancient aboriginal title , the author may not omit the ...
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... negotiated during the colonial government ; it was replied , that on the rupture of the revolu- tion , the British Superintendent for Indian affairs , had taken away all the papers belonging to his department . Thus far the aboriginal ...
... negotiated during the colonial government ; it was replied , that on the rupture of the revolu- tion , the British Superintendent for Indian affairs , had taken away all the papers belonging to his department . Thus far the aboriginal ...
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... negotiations , remains without an answer . In both these instances , certainly in the first , the legislature invalidated the private purchase in favor of the public domain ; and assigned compensation to the individuals , in large ...
... negotiations , remains without an answer . In both these instances , certainly in the first , the legislature invalidated the private purchase in favor of the public domain ; and assigned compensation to the individuals , in large ...
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Page 138 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 308 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 287 - That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming as to itself, the other party: That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers...
Page 285 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 287 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 287 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes...
Page 313 - England, a navy of the United States, are ready to join, and final orders are given to my friends and followers. It will be a host of choice spirits. Wilkinson shall be second to Burr only ; Wilkinson shall dictate the rank and promotion of his officers. Burr will proceed westward 1st August, never to return. With him goes his daughter ; the husband will follow in October, with a corps of worthies.
Page 341 - That in the late campaign against the Indians on the Wabash, Governor WH Harrison has, in the opinion of this Legislature, behaved like a hero, a patriot, and a general; and that for his cool, deliberate, skillful, and gallant conduct in the late battle of Tippecanoe, he deserves the warmest thanks of the nation.
Page 19 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Page 394 - ... of, in, or to the same, or any part thereof; To have and to hold the...