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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
, p. 373; Vol. 3, p. 243.) At the treaty of Paris, the United States was fortunate in the servicorial expansion. In the peace negotiations at Paris, on the question of the extension of her boundr the possession of America. In the treaty of Paris, February 10, 1763, she ceded to Great Britain as January 30, 1787, he wrote to Madison from Paris: I will venture to say that the act which aban. Madison wrote to Mr. Livingston, minister at Paris, instructing him, if the cession had irrevocabter plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to Paris to act in conjunction with Mr. Livingston. (Aroe, written April 18, but which did not reach Paris till after the treaty had been signed. These ructions to General Armstrong, the minister at Paris, to offer $5,000,000. The instructions reached Paris in May, 1806, eight months after Napoleon's suggestion had been made. Such dilatory proceedhe following: Date.Period. Final Treaty of Paris1783 Acquisition of Louisiana180820 years Acq[4 more...]
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
that it was casual and ephemeral, a mere insurrection, such as European governments could not afford to encourage; one while threatening war on Europe and then making concessions even to a reluctant accession to the declaration of the Congress at Paris, pure and simple. The position that privateersmen were pirates was also abandoned, and the claim of a right to close part of its ports by a paper blockade was withdrawn upon the significant declaration by the European powers that the execution vertures had gained at Washington. On receiving the note M. Mercier, the French minister, made a special visit to Mr. Seward, to present the dispatch, the reply to which was made in the United States secretary's letter to Mr. Dayton, minister at Paris. Mr. Seward answered the French suggestion that commissioners be appointed by the two peoples at war to meet on neutral ground and adjust their difficulties, by saying that however benevolent the desire of France, the suggestions which it has pr
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
gislature to further the policy of armed neutrality. This plan failing he entered the army in Virginia, with rank of major, and for eight or nine months served as brigade commissary. In May, 1862, he was chosen provisional governor of Kentucky by the State council, to succeed Governor Johnson, and was inaugurated at Frankfort, October 4. He held this office until the close of the war, though the position at Frankfort was not long maintained. In 1865 he returned to his devastated home at Paris, and was elected judge of the Bourbon county court in 1866, a position he held until his death, May 25, 1877. Thomas Overton Moore came of good colonial stock. His maternal grandfather, Gen. Thomas Overton, was major under Light Horse Harry Lee in the days of ‘76. Born in North Carolina—his family being so noted as to give their name to one of its counties—he came to Louisiana to live the life of a cotton planter in Rapide Parish. The time was to come, however, when broader duties were<