The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: John Jay; Francis Dana

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N. Hale and Gray & Bowen, 1830

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170 ページ - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
263 ページ - I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me the 4th instant, as also those which accompanied it.
171 ページ - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
177 ページ - And further, the committee beg leave to report it as their opinion, that these United States cannot, with propriety, hold any conference or treaty with any commissioners on the part of Great Britain, unless they shall, as a preliminary thereto, either withdraw their fleets and armies, or else, in positive and express terms, acknowledge the independence of the said states.
175 ページ - America, they could not send any members to confer with his lordship in their private characters, but that, ever desirous of establishing peace on reasonable terms, they would send a committee of their body to ascertain what authority he had to treat with persons authorized by Congress, and what propositions he had to offer.
490 ページ - ... before the declaration of war, or in the space of six months after it, which effects shall not be in any manner subject to confiscation, but shall be faithfully and without delay restored in nature to the owners, who shall claim them or cause them to be claimed, before the confiscation and sale, as also their proceeds, if the claim could not be made but in the space of eight months after the sale, which ought to be public : provided nevertheless, that if the said merchandises are contraband,...
483 ページ - In case the subjects and inhabitants of either party, with their shipping, whether public and of war, or private and of merchants, be forced through stress of weather, pursuit of pirates or enemies, or any other urgent necessity...
53 ページ - I shall not enter into an examination of the successive variations and augmentations of your demands on me for funds to meet your payments.
235 ページ - A minister plenipotentiary for negotiating a treaty of peace and a treaty of commerce with Great Britain.
441 ページ - Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.

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