Views on the Free Navigation of the St. Lawrence, Reported |
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... extent , yet , as a question , it is modern in its origin . So long as there was no occasion for exercising the right , there was none for asserting or disputing it . It is true , under the supposition that the · sources of the ...
... extent , yet , as a question , it is modern in its origin . So long as there was no occasion for exercising the right , there was none for asserting or disputing it . It is true , under the supposition that the · sources of the ...
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... extent of their contiguity . This property is justly qualified by the claim of upper and inland nations to the right of passage to and from the ocean ; and this right of ingress and egress asserts but little more than the national right ...
... extent of their contiguity . This property is justly qualified by the claim of upper and inland nations to the right of passage to and from the ocean ; and this right of ingress and egress asserts but little more than the national right ...
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... extent . Who will not be startled on being told that the commerce of Michigan has become nearly equal to that of all Canada ? Yet , incredible as it may seem , it is true . But Michigan is the child of one generation ; and in our own ...
... extent . Who will not be startled on being told that the commerce of Michigan has become nearly equal to that of all Canada ? Yet , incredible as it may seem , it is true . But Michigan is the child of one generation ; and in our own ...
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... extent the imports of another , and the nett value was estimated to be one - half , or $ 61,914,910 . This view , for 1846 , falls much short of the whole truth , since it is known that these estimates include nothing for the commerce ...
... extent the imports of another , and the nett value was estimated to be one - half , or $ 61,914,910 . This view , for 1846 , falls much short of the whole truth , since it is known that these estimates include nothing for the commerce ...
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... extent of their capacity for public use and ad- vantage . We have already shown the probable future increase of our lake commerce ; and all apprehension like that suggested should be dispelled , when it is also considered that the ...
... extent of their capacity for public use and ad- vantage . We have already shown the probable future increase of our lake commerce ; and all apprehension like that suggested should be dispelled , when it is also considered that the ...
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Page 19 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also in the Gulf of St.
Page 11 - The navigation of the rivers along their whole course, referred to in the preceding article, from the point where each of them becomes navigable to its mouth, shall be entirely free, and shall not, in respect to commerce, be prohibited to any one ; it being understood that the regulations established with regard to the police of this navigation shall be respected, as they will be framed alike for all, and as favourable as possible to the commerce of all nations.
Page 6 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Page 10 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other state that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax. impost or duty, therefor.
Page 18 - A passage ought, also, to be granted for merchandise, and as this may, in common, be done without inconvenience, to refuse it, without just reason, is injuring a nation, and endeavouring to deprive it of the means of carrying on a trade with other States ; if the passage occasion any inconvenience, any expense for the preservation of canals and highways, it may be recompensed by the rights of toll.
Page 5 - Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, relative to the State of the Union,
Page 10 - But it is inconceivable upon what just grounds a nation below can oppose the right of that above to pass through a great natural highway into the sea, that it may trade or hold intercourse with other .nations by their consent. From the very nature of such a river, it must, in respect' to its navigable uses, be considered as common to all the nations who inhabit its banks, as a free gift, flowing from the bounty of Heaven, intended for all whose lots are cast upon its borders...
Page 19 - In the course of the same section he declares, that upon "this foundation of common right a free passage through countries, rivers, or over any part of the sea, which belong to some particular people, ought to be allowed to those who require it for the necessary occasions of life, whether those occasions be in quest of settlements after being driven from their own country, or to trade with a remote nation".
Page 9 - ... society or nation, has been interdicted to the upper inhabitants, it has been an act of force by a stronger against a weaker party, and condemned by the judgment of mankind. The right of the upper inhabitants to the full use of the stream, rests upon the same imperious wants as that of the lower; upon the same intrinsic necessity of participating . in the benefits of this flowing element.
Page 18 - It must be remembered with regard to the straits that when they serve for a communication between two seas, the navigation of which is common to all or to many nations, he who possesses the strait cannot refuse others a passage through it, provided that passage be innocent and attended with no danger to the state.