American Annals: Or, a Chronological History of America, from Its Discovery in MCCCCXCII to MDCCCVI, Volume 2W. Hilliard, 1805 - 23 pages |
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Page 490 - the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of " men, more than the people of the United States. " Every step, by which they have advanced to the " character of an independent nation, seems to have *' been distinguished by some token of providential " agency." By the same means, and under the same divine patronage, may the prosperity of the United States be protracted
Page 265 - is *' more, it is itself an eternal law of nature. For " whatever is a man's own, it is absolutely his own. " No man has a right to take it from him without " his consent. Whoever attempts to do it, attempts ** an injury ; whoever does it, commits a robbery.
Page 247 - of Great Britain and France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and that part expressly, which is between the said island of New Orleans and the right bank of that river, as well as the passage both in and out of its mouth : And the
Page 301 - An act for the better securing his majesty's dock yards, magazines, ships, ammunition and stores," which declares a new offence in America, and deprives the American subject of a constitutional trial by jury of the vicinage, by authorizing the trial of any person, charged with the committing any offence described in the
Page 247 - drawn along the middle of this river, and of the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea ; and to this purpose the most Christian king cedes in full right, and guarantees to his Britannic majesty the river and port of Mobile and every thing that he possesses on the left side of the river
Page 480 - the United States and his Britannic majesty, determined what river was truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, mentioned in the treaty of Peace, and forming a part of the boundary line described in that treaty.
Page 248 - guaranteeing to each other the partition so stipulated. By the sixteenth article it is stipulated, that his Britannic majesty shall cause all the fortifications to be demolished, which his subjects shall have erected in the bay of Honduras, and other places of the territory of Spain, in that part of the world. And his Catholic majesty shall not,
Page 250 - and the coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Rosiers, and from thence crossing the mouth of the river St. Lawrence by the west end of the island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid river St. John.
Page 250 - The government of West Florida was declared to be ** bounded to the southward by the Gulf of Mexico, including all islands within six leagues of the sea coast, from the river Apalachicola to Lake Pontchartrain ; to the westward by the said lake, the
Page 308 - enlarged on the ruinous events, that were coming on the nation, in consequence of this dispute and the measures of the ministry ; arraigned the conduct of ministers with great severity ; reprobated their whole system of American politics ; and moved, that a humble address be presented to his majesty, most humbly to advise and beseech