Speeches on Commercial, Financial and Other SubjectsG. W. Carleton & Company, 1877 - 320 pages |
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Page 200 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 154 - ... founding the advantage of commerce solely upon reciprocal utility, and the just rules of free intercourse; reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure, other nations to a participation of the same advantages.
Page 226 - The prolongation of the war and the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the suppression of the rebellion.
Page 61 - Edward's island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore; with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those colonies and the islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
Page 240 - The people of Kansas, then [he says], are invited by the highest authority known to the Constitution to participate freely and fairly in the election of delegates to frame a constitution and State government. The law has performed its entire appropriate function when it extends to the people the right of suffrage, but it can not compel the performance of that duty.
Page 226 - States in respect of theso claims, they have arrived, individually and collectively, at the conclusion that these claims do not constitute, upon the principles of international law applicable to such cases, good foundation for an award ot compensation or computation of damages between nations...
Page 60 - The British authorities insist that England has a right to draw a line from headland to headland, and to capture all American fishermen who may follow their pursuits inside of that line. It was undoubtedly an oversight in the convention of 1818 to make so large a concession to England, since the United States has usually considered that those vast inlets or recesses ought to be opened to American fishermen as freely as the sea itself to within three marine miles of the shore.
Page 59 - ... that no right exists on the part of American citizens to enter the bays of Nova Scotia, there to take fish, although the fishing, being within the bay, may be at a greater distance than three miles from the shore of the bay; as we are of opinion that the term
Page 90 - The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolution of the House, of the...
Page 172 - West India islands is the monopoly of their consumption, and the carriage of their produce.