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... estates which constituted the security for their advances became more and more operative ; and supplies for carrying on the cultivation , in lieu of being imported direct by the owners , were furnished through mercantile agencies ...
... estates which constituted the security for their advances became more and more operative ; and supplies for carrying on the cultivation , in lieu of being imported direct by the owners , were furnished through mercantile agencies ...
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... Estates of considerable extent , which the pro- prietors had no longer the means , or the mortgagees the wish , to keep in cultivation , were bought by associations of negroes , who paid down a portion of the purchase money , leaving ...
... Estates of considerable extent , which the pro- prietors had no longer the means , or the mortgagees the wish , to keep in cultivation , were bought by associations of negroes , who paid down a portion of the purchase money , leaving ...
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... estates , which were bought by communities of the labouring population , varying in number from seventy to one hundred , and were subdivided by them in equal shares , some of which estates have already been , and others are in course of ...
... estates , which were bought by communities of the labouring population , varying in number from seventy to one hundred , and were subdivided by them in equal shares , some of which estates have already been , and others are in course of ...
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... estates , and to mix up , as many of them persistently did , the questions of rent and labour ; the negro has strong local as well as personal attachments , but if he becomes once unsettled or dis- trustful , it is difficult to overcome ...
... estates , and to mix up , as many of them persistently did , the questions of rent and labour ; the negro has strong local as well as personal attachments , but if he becomes once unsettled or dis- trustful , it is difficult to overcome ...
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... estates ' labour ; they talked of bringing out their relatives from China at their own expense . They only complained of the difficulty of obtaining supplies of fresh meat , to which they had been accustomed , but they were very healthy ...
... estates ' labour ; they talked of bringing out their relatives from China at their own expense . They only complained of the difficulty of obtaining supplies of fresh meat , to which they had been accustomed , but they were very healthy ...
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Страница 12 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Страница 27 - A neutral government is bound— First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace...
Страница 26 - Our citizens have always been free to make, vend and export arms. It is the constant occupation and livelihood of some of them. To suppress their callings, the only means perhaps of their subsistence, because a war exists in foreign and distant countries in which we have no concern, would scarcely be expected.
Страница 37 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Страница 39 - States shall be continued westward along the said 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Страница 39 - From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude...
Страница 221 - I am bordering upon seventyseven years of age passed in honour. " I hope that the Almighty may protect me from being the witness of the tragedy which I cannot persuade my contemporaries to take measures to avert.
Страница 146 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
Страница 51 - And that true North, whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us "keep you to yourselves; So loyal is too costly! friends - your love Is but a burthen: loose the bond, and go.
Страница 16 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.