Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas: Correspondence with the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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Page 107 - And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
Page 37 - THE PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. By CA DUNIWAY, Secretary of the Pacific Coaxt BraticJi. The fourth annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association was held in San Francisco on Friday, November 29, and Saturday, November 30.
Page 21 - Madison was also at the same time the meeting place of the American Economic Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Society...
Page 316 - Picton was to assure the inhabitants of Spanish America that whenever they were disposed to resist the oppressive authority of their Government, they would receive from him " all the succors to be expected from HB Majesty; be it with forces, or with arms and ammunition to any extent ; with the assurance that the views of HB Majesty go no further than to secure to them their independence, without pretending to any sovereignty over their country nor even to interfere in the privileges of the people,...
Page 110 - The frontier reached by the Pacific Railroad, surveyed into rectangles, guarded by the United States Army, and recruited by the daily immigrant ship, moves forward at a swifter pace and in a different way than the frontier reached by the birch canoe or the pack horse.
Page 397 - until satisfaction for that and for spoliations and until a settlemt. of boundary. I had rather have war against Spain than not, if we go to war against England, our Southern defensive force can take the Floridas, volunteers for a Mexican army will flock to our standards, and rich pabulum will be offered to our privateers in the plunder of their commerce and coasts, probably Cuba would add itself to our confederation.
Page 330 - With regard to the enterprise in question, I wish it much to be undertaken, but I should be glad that the principal agency was in the United States, they to furnish the whole land force if necessary. The command in this case would very naturally fall upon me ; and I hope I should disappoint no favorable anticipations.
Page 199 - We think, and it is much designed amongst us, to strive with the Spaniard for the mastery of all those seas...
Page 46 - ... he too is a factor, and oftener the active than the passive, the multiplier than the multiplicand. Recognition of this is often obscured by an ambiguous or inexact use of words. Thus " location " may denote either an act or the result of an act : it may mean a placing or a place. When Miss Semple tells us that " the most important geographical fact in the past history of the United States has been their location on the Atlantic opposite Europe...
Page 92 - Let this territory be reserved exclusively for Indians, in which to make the proposed experiment of gathering into one body as many of the scattered and other Indians as choose to settle here, to be educated, become citizens, and in due time to be admitted to all the privileges common to other territories and States in the Union...