 | John Montgomery Gambrill - 1904 - 412 páginas
...that what had been won through the efforts of all should become the common property of the states, "subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free,...the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct." Now we have further to observe, that during the stormy period which followed the war with England (hereafter... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Library - 1904 - 780 páginas
...instructions, that were entered upon the journal of Congress, claiming that the unsettled country, if "wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered common property, subject to be parceled out by Congress into free, convenient, and independent governments,... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - 1904 - 804 páginas
...instructions, that were entered upon the journal of Congress, claiming that the unsettled oountry, if "wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered common property, subject to be parceled out by Congress into free, convenient, and independent governments,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1905 - 480 páginas
...should be amended as she had desired; and the letter of instructions demanded that the Western territory "should be considered as a common property, subject...the; wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct." This seems to have been the first official proposal of that extension of the Federal system which had... | |
 | James Oscar Pierce - 1906 - 352 páginas
...ratify those articles until this question should be settled upon the basis that the lands, "if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of...into free, convenient and independent governments." These instructions, when read in Congress in May, 1779, lijought protest and remonstrance from Virginia,... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1906 - 442 páginas
...Maryland stipulated that the western territory " should be considered as a common property to be parceled out by Congress into free, convenient, and independent...wisdom of that assembly ,shall hereafter direct." This stipulation was made in December, 1778. In October, 1780, Congress adopted a resolution providing... | |
 | Roscoe Lewis Ashley - 1908 - 690 páginas
...fertile valleys of the West. She took the broad, patriotic view that the western lands " if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of...into free, convenient, and independent governments." To meet the objections of Maryland, and to remove the very serious dangers arising from interstate... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 páginas
...that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, ... if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of...states, should be considered as a common property, ... to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments. . . . Thus convinced,... | |
 | 1909 - 634 páginas
...had held up the articles of confederation until she was assured that the western lands should become common property 'subject to be parcelled out by congress...into free, convenient, and independent governments.' This was a perilous cutting away from the almost universal notion of supreme state sovereignty, the... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 648 páginas
...had held up the articles of confederation until she was assured that the western lands should become common property "subject to be parcelled out by congress...into free, convenient, and independent governments." This was a perilous cutting away from the almost universal notion of supreme state sovereignty, the... | |
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We are convinced, policy and justice require that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen States,... 
