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Lewis Cass to George M . Dallas, October 20, 1859
Mr. Cass to Mr. Dallas. Department of State, Washington, October 20, 1859. Sir: * * * * * * * The words of the treaty are “through the middle of…
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Letters about Foreign Policy
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David A. Russell to Lyons, August 24, 1859
[Extracts.] Lord John Russell to Lord Lyons. Foreign Office, August 24, 1859. The Earl of Aberdeen, to whom I have referred, informs me that he distinctly remembers the general tenor…
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ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Commissioner Northwestern Boundary Survey to Lewis Cass, September 25, 1858
U. S. Northwest Boundary Commission Camp, Simiahmoo, Forty-ninth Parallel, September 25, 1858. Practically it can make no difference whether the main channel be adopted as “the channel” intended by the…
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ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Commissioner Northwestern Boundary Survey to Lewis Cass, February 10, 1858
[Extracts.] Mr. Campbell to Mr. Cass. Washington City, February 10, 1858. Captain Prevost finally proposed such a compromise as would throw within the territory of the United States all the…
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Edward Everett to Archibald Campbell, May 29, 1858
[Extract.] Mr. Edward Everett to Mr. Campbell. Boston, May 29, 1858. As the radical principle of the boundary is the forty-ninth degree of latitude, and the only reason for departing…
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Captain Prevost to Archibald Campbell, October 28, 1857
[Extracts.] Captain Prevost to Mr. Campbell. Her Britannic Majesty’s Ship Satellite, Simiahmoo Bay, Gulf of Georgia, October 28, 1857. 4. By a careful consideration of the wording of the treaty,…
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*No. 69.[108], December 20, 1856.
*No. 69.[108] Foreign Office, December 20, 1856. If, however, the commissioner of the United States will not adopt the line along Rosario Strait, and if, on a detailed and accurate…
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Crampton to James Buchanan, January 13, 1848
[Extract.] Mr. Crampton to Mr. Buchanan. Washington, January 13, 1848. But in regard to this portion of the boundary line a preliminary question arises, which turns upon the interpretation of…
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[Untitled], Precise date not stated, but from internal evidence certainly later than May 16, 1846
[Untitled] Extract from a letter of Sir J. Pelly, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, to the Earl of Aberdeen. [Precise date not stated, but from internal evidence certainly later…
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No. 67., February 7, 1838.
No. 67. Hudson’s Bay House, February 7, 1838. My Lords: For many years previous to the grant of exclusive trade to the Hudson’s Bay Company, the trade of that coast…