Putnam's Historical Atlas, Mediaeval and Modern: A Series of 96 Plates, Containing 229 Colored Maps and Diagrams

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 - 99 pagina's
 

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Pagina xix - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Pagina xcviii - ... thence, by a line due north, to the degree of latitude where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Natchitoches. or Red river; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London, and 23 from Washington ; then, crossing the said Red river, and running thence by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South...
Pagina xcvi - ... beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Pagina xviii - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Pagina xix - ... of regulating the trade of the States, as well with foreign nations, as with each other...
Pagina xcviii - The boundary line between the two countries, west of the Mississippi, shall begin on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sabine, in the sea...
Pagina xix - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Pagina xxvii - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Pagina xcix - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Pagina xxii - That an embargo be, and hereby is laid on all ships and vessels in the ports and places within the limits or jurisdiction of the United States, cleared or not cleared, bound to any foreign port or place...

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