House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 11, Part 1 |
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Page 675 - America has devolved upon me the charge of making known to you, for the information of the government of the United States, the sentiments entertained by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, upon the existing relations of the two countries.
Page 473 - I have the honor to transmit the translations (No. 1) to which I referred in despatch No. 17. 1 have the honor to be, sir, most respectfully, your obedient servant, MARCUS OTTERBOURG, United Stales Consul.
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Page 129 - Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Belgians at the Court of Japan.
Page 663 - The Congress of the United States are unwilling by silence to leave the nations of the world under the impression that they are indifferent spectators of the deplorable events now transpiring in the Republic of Mexico ; and...
Page 18 - Confederacy, in all such territory the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in the Confederate States shall be recognized and protected by Congress and the territorial government, and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and territories shall have the right to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or territories of the Confederate States.
Page 663 - Mexico ; and they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical government, erected on the ruins of any republican government in America, under the auspices of any European power.
Page 130 - Member of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, and His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Catholic Majesty ; and His Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, Don Josef Garcia de Leon y Pizarro, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and...
Page 582 - They are not prepared to recognize, or to pledge themselves hereafter to recognize, any political institutions in Mexico which are in opposition to the republican government with which we have so long and so constantly maintained relations of amity and friendship . . ." With the Civil War over the tone of the United States became more decided.
Page 582 - The presence and operations of a French army in Mexico, and its maintenance of an authority there, resting upon force and not the free will of the people of Mexico, is a cause of serious concern to the United States.
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| Title | House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 11, Part 1 United States congressional serial set |
| Author | United States. Congress. House |
| Published | 1866 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Dec 2006 |
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