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# Message to the Senate of April 8, 1802

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APRIL 8, 1802.
Gentlemen of the Senate:
In order to satisfy as far as it is in my power the desire expressed in your resolution of the 6th instant, I now transmit you a letter from John Read, agent for the United States before the board of commissioners under the sixth article of the treaty with Great Britain, to the Attorney-General, bearing date the 25th of April, 1801, in which he gives a Summary view of the proceedings of those commissioners and of the principles established or insisted on by a majority of them.
Supposing it might be practicable for us to settle by negotiation with Great Britain the principles which ought to govern the decisions under the treaty, I caused instructions to be given to Mr. Read to analyze the claims before the board of commissioners, to class them under the principles on which they respectively depended, and to state the sum depending on each principle or the amount of each description of debt. The object of this was that we might know what principles were most important for us to contend for and what others might be conceded without much injury. He performed this duty, and gave in such a statement during the last summer, but the chief clerk of the Secretary of State's office being absent on account of sickness, and the only person acquainted with the arrangement of the papers of the office, this particular document can not at this time be found. Having, however, been myself in possession of it a few days after its receipt, I then transcribed from it for my own use the recapitulation of the amount of each description of debt. A copy of this transcript I shall subjoin hereto, with assurances that it is substantially correct, and with the hope that it will give a view of the subject sufficiently precise to fulfill the wishes of the Senate. To save them the delay of waiting till a copy of the agent's letter could be made, I send the original, with the request that it may be returned at the convenience of the Senate.
TH: JEFFERSON.
# Message to the Senate of August 11, 1790

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UNITED STATES, August 11, 1790.
Gentlemen of the Senate:
Although the treaty with the Creeks may be regarded as the main foundation of the future peace and prosperity of the Southwestern frontier of the United States, yet in order fully to effect so desirable an object the treaties which have been entered into with the other tribes in that quartet must be faithfully performed on our parts.
During the last year I laid before the Senate a particular statement of the case of the Cherokees. By a reference to that paper it will appear that the United States formed a treaty with the Cherokees in November, 1785; that the said Cherokees thereby placed themselves under the protection of the United States and had a boundary assigned them; that the white people settled on the frontiers had openly violated the said boundary by intruding on the Indian lands; that the United States in Congress assembled did, on the 1st day of September, 1788, issue their proclamation forbidding all such unwarrantable intrusions, and enjoined all those who had settled upon the hunting grounds of the Cherokees to depart with their families and effects without loss of time, as they would answer their disobedience to the injunctions and prohibitions expressed at their peril.
But information has been received that notwithstanding the said treaty and proclamation upward of 500 families have settled on the Cherokee lands exclusively of those settled between the fork of French Broad and Holstein rivers, mentioned in the said treaty.
As the obstructions to a proper conduct on this matter have been removed since it was mentioned to the Senate on the 22d of August, 1789, by the accession of North Carolina to the present Union and the cessions of the land in question, I shall conceive myself bound to exert the powers intrusted to me by the Constitution in order to carry into faithful execution the treaty of Hopewell, unless it shall be thought proper to attempt to arrange a new boundary with the Cherokees, embracing the settlements, and compensating the Cherokees for the cessions they shall make on the occasion. On this point, therefore, I state the following questions and request the advice of the Senate thereon:
First. Is it the judgment of the Senate that overtures shall be made to the Cherokees to arrange a new boundary so as to embrace the settlements made by the white people since the treaty of Hopewell, in November, 1785 ?
Second. If so, shall compensation to the amount of _____ dollars annually, or of _____ dollars in gross, be made to the Cherokees for the land they shall relinquish, holding the occupiers of the land accountable to the United States for its value?
Third. Shall the United States stipulate solemnly to guarantee the new boundary which may be arranged?
G$^o$ WASHINGTON.
# Message to the Senate and House of January 16, 1804

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JANUARY 16, 1804.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
In execution of the act of the present session of Congress for taking possession of Louisiana, as ceded to us by France, and for the temporary government thereof, Governor Claiborne, of the Mississippi Territory, and General Wilkinson were appointed commissioners to receive possession. They proceeded with such regular troops as had been assembled at Fort Adams from the nearest posts and with some militia of the Mississippi Territory to New Orleans. To be prepared for anything unexpected which might arise out of the transaction, a respectable body of militia was ordered to be in readiness in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and a part of those of Tennessee was moved on to the Natchez. No occasion, however, arose for their services. Our commissioners, on their arrival at New Orleans, found the Province already delivered by the commissioners of Spain to that of France, who delivered it over to them on the 20th day of December, as appears by their declaratory act accompanying this. Governor Claiborne, being duly invested with the powers heretofore exercised by the governor and intendant of Louisiana, assumed the government on the same day, and for the maintenance of law and order immediately issued the proclamation and address now communicated.
On this important acquisition, so favorable to the immediate interests of our Western citizens, so auspicious to the peace and security of the nation in general, which adds to our country territories so extensive and fertile and to our citizens new brethren to partake of the blessings of freedom and self-government, I offer to Congress and our country my sincere congratulations
TH: JEFFERSON.
# Manifesto of General Salis-Soglio to the Sonderbund army

This manifesto was addressed by the commander of the Sonderbund forces, General Salis-Soglio, to his troops on the eve of the Sonderbund War, the 1847 civil war in Switzerland. The following translation of the original German text was published in the book by M. J. Mayers, Note-book of the late civil war in Switzerland (John W. Parker, London, 1848).
Soldiers, and faithful Confederates!
The highminded and free people of the seven-allied Catholic States have resolved to adhere firmly to their most sacred religion, and to all the laws and privileges inherited from a heroic ancestry. And to defend and protect these, with all your might and even your life, you arc now called to take up arms; whilst your pious wives and sisters lie prostrate in the house of God, to implore of the Lord of Hosts to give peace, or victory to your arms.
With greater joy and in greater numbers than on any former occasion, are you now crowding around those banners, which at Morgarten and Sempach and on other battle-fields, waved over the helmets of your brave fathers. That God who then fought for your fathers will now fight also for you.
Wherefore it has pleased the Most High to call me to a post so honorable and trust-worthy, I know not; but who can direct his most holy counsel? God's strength is oftentimes made perfect in the weakest human instrument! And if I am possessed of your confidence, mine is not less reposed in you. I know, that you will offer your prayers for me, even during the hottest moment of conflict. You will not forsake me any more than I will forsake you.
I am thankful to, and praise the Almighty, that I have been accounted worthy to be called to fight, and also to fall, with you, if it be His will, in a cause so good as our's. God be with us.
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# Manifesto of the Communist Party/4

IV.
POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES.
Section II. has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working class parties, ​such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.
The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement. In France the Communists ally themselves with the Social-Democrats, against the conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the right to take up a critical position in regard to phrases and illusions traditionally handed down from the great Revolution.
In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.
In Poland they support the party that insists on an agrarian revolution, as the prime condition for national emancipation, that party which fomented the insurrection of Cracow in 1846.
In Germany they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the petty bourgeoisie.
But they never cease, for a single instant, to instill into the working class the clearest possible recognition of the hostile antagonism between bourgeoisie and proletariat, in order that the German workers may straightway use, as so many ​weapons against the bourgeoisie, the social and political conditions that the bourgeoisie must necessarily introduce along with its supremacy, and in order that, after the fall of the reactionary classes in Germany, the fight against the bourgeoisie itself may immediately begin.
The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution, that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilization, and with a more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution.
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.
In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.
Finally, they labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Working men of all countries, unite!
# Manifesto Addressed to the Canadians

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This manifesto was posted in a French translation on the doors of the Church in the village of Beaumont on June 28, 1759. Extracted from Wright, Robert (1864). The Life of Major-General James Wolfe, London: Chapman and Hall, p. 517-518
By his Excellency James Wolfe, Esq., Colonel of a Regiment of Infantry, Major-General, and Commander-in-chief of his Britannic Majesty's Forces in the River St. Lawrence, etc.
The formidable sea and land armament which the people of Canada now behold in the heart of their country, is intended by the King, my master, to check the insolence of France, to revenge the insults offered to the British colonies, and totally to deprive the French of their most valuable settlement in North America. For these purposes is the formidable army under my command intended. The King of Great Britain wages no war with the industrious peasant, the sacred orders of religion, or the defenceless women and children; to these, in their distressful circumstances, his royal clemency offers protection. The people may remain unmolested on their lands, inhabit their houses, and enjoy their religion in security. For these inestimable blessings I expect the Canadians will take no part in the great contest between the two crowns. But if, by a vain obstinacy and misguided valour, they presume to appear in arms, they must expect the most fatal consequences,– their habitations destroyed, their sacred temples exposed to an exasperated soldiery, their harvest utterly ruined, and the only passage for relief stopped up by a most formidable fleet. In this unhappy situation, and closely attacked by another great army, what can the wretched natives expect from opposition?
The unparalleled barbarities exerted by the French against our settlements in America might justify the bitterest revenge in the army under my command; but Britons breathe higher sentiments of humanity, and listen to the merciful dictates of the Christian religion. Yet, should you suffer yourselves to be deluded by an imaginary prospect of our want of success; should you refuse these terms, and persist in opposition, then surely will the law of nations justify the waste of war, so necessary to crush an ungenerous enemy; and then the miserable Canadians must in the winter have the mortification of seeing their very families, for whom they have been exerting but a fruitless and indiscreet bravery, perish by the most dismal want and famine. In this great dilemma, let the wisdom of the people of Canada show itself. Britain stretches out a powerful, yet merciful hand; faithful to her engagements, and ready to secure her in her most valuable rights and possessions. France, unable to support Canada, deserts her cause at this important crisis, and during the whole war has assisted her with troops, who have been maintained only by making the natives feel all the weight of grievous and lawless oppression.
Given at Laurent, in the Island of Orleans, this 28th day of June 1759.
# Manifesto of Czech writers

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The Manifesto of Czech writers was the first public declaration in favour of the self-determination of the Czech nation during the First World War, published on 17 May 1917. The principal author was Jaroslav Kvapil, director of the Czech National Theatre in Prague.
English-language translations of Manifest českých spisovatelů include:
* "Address of Bohemian Authors to the Parliamentary Representatives of the Bohemian People" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (6) (1917), includes signatories
* "Bohemia's Demand for Independence" in The New Europe, 3 (34) (7th June, 1917), pp. 239–241
# Men-at-the-Bar/Schomberg, Reginald Brodrick

​Schomberg, Reginald Brodrick, B.A., New Coll., Oxon, 1871, a student of Lincoln's Inn 28 Dec., 1871 (then aged 22), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1875 (4th son of Joseph Trigge Schomberg, of Seend, Wilts, Q.C., and of Lincoln's Inn); born , 1849.
    61, Carey Street, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Schröder, Edward

​Schröder, Edward, a student of the Middle Temple 3 Jan., 1831, called to the bar 8 May, 1840 (2nd son of Herman Schroder, of Hackney, Middlesex, gent.); born , .
# Men-at-the-Bar/Sclater, Philip Lutley

​Sclater, Philip Lutley, M.A. (fellow 1853–62), Corpus Christi Coll., Oxon, 1851, from Winchester Coll., F.R.S., Ph.D. Bonn, i860, secretary to the Zoological Society of London since 1859, private secretary to Rt. Hon. George Sclater-Booth (president of the Local Government Board) 1874-7, author of numerous works on zoology, editor of the Ibis, a Journal of Ornithology, went the Western circuit, a student of Lincoln's Inn 30 April, 1851 (then aged 21), called to the bar 6 June, 1855 (2nd son of William Lutley Sclater, Esq., of Hoddington House, Hants); born 4 Nov., 1829; married 16 Oct., 1862, Jane Anne Eliza, youngest dau. of Sir David Hunter-Blair, Bart., of Blairquhan, N.B. (see Foster's Baronetage).
    44, Elvaston Place, Queen's Gate, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Scharlieb, William Mason

​Scharlieb, William Mason, presidency magistrate Madras, a student of the Middle Temple 19 Oct., 1863, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1865 (only son of Charles Scharlieb, of Madras); born , .
    Madras.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Scholfield, Robert Stanley

​Scholfield, Robert Stanley, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1866, from Eton, J.P. Yorkshire East Riding, a student of Lincoln's Inn 7 Nov., 1863 (then aged 22), called to the bar 6 June, 1866 (eldest son of Edward Scholfield, of Doncaster, M.D.); born 14 Dec., 1840; married 21 Dec., 1875, Ada Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev. Thomas Bradley Paget, vicar of Welton and canon of York, and has issue.
    Sand Hall, Howden, Yorks; Junior Carlton Club.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Schooles, Henry Rawlins Pipon

​Schooles, Henry Rawlins Pipon, attorney-general of British Honduras since 1880, acting chief justice 1881-2, admitted to the bar of the Leeward Islands May, 1873, represented Sandypoint in St. Kitts Legislative Assembly 1874-6, 1877, etc., senior elective member for St Kitts, in federal council of Leeward Islands 1879-80, a student of the Middle Temple 28 May, 1870, called to the bar 27 Jan., 1873 (eldest son of Henry James Schooles, of Hythe, Kent, M.D.); born , .
    St. John's, Antigua.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Sclater-Booth, Rt. Hon. George

​Sclater-Booth, Rt. Hon. George, P.C, F.R.S., M.P. N. Hants since 1857, M.A. Balliol Coll., Oxon, parliamentary secretary to Poor Law Board 1867, to treasury 1868, president Local Government Board 1874-80, official verderer of the New Forest since 1877, assumed the additional surname of Booth in 1857, a student of the Inner Temple 16 Nov., 1846 (then aged 20), called to the bar 17 June, 1851 (eldest son of William Lutley Sclater, Esq., of Hoddington House, Hants); born 19 May, 1826; married 8 Dec., 1857, Lydia Caroline, only dau. of Major George Birch, of Clare Park, Hants; she died , 1881, leaving issue.
    The Priory, Odiham, Hants; 74, St. George's Square, S.W.; Carlton and St. Stephen's Clubs.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Schneider, John Henry Augustus

​Schneider, John Henry Augustus, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1866, a student of the Inner Temple 21 Nov., 1865 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1869 (eldest son of Henry William Schneider, Esq., of Conishead Priory, co. Lanc.); born , 1843.
    67, Eaton Square, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Schreiner, William Philip

​Schreiner, William Philip, B.A., LL.B., Downing Coll., Camb., 1882, fellow 1884, first in 1st class law tripos 1881, chancellor's medallist for legal studies, matric. London Univ. 1879 from South African Coll., a student of the Inner Temple 21 Jan., 1879 (then aged 21), studentship Hilary, 1881, common law scholarship July, 1881, called to the bar 3 May, 1882 (youngest surviving son of Rev. Gottlieb Schreiner, late of Balfour, Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony); born , 1858.
    Downing College, Cambridge.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Schloss, David Frederick

​Schloss, David Frederick, M.A. Corpus Christi Coll., Oxon, B.A. 1874, a student of Lincoln's Inn 11 Oct., 1870 (then aged 20), called to the bar 7 June, 1875 (eldest son of Sigismund Schloss, of Manchester, merchant); born , 1850.
    8, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Stirling, Arthur Frederick Gresley

​Stirling, Arthur Frederick Gresley, B.A., Magdalen Coll., Oxon, 1870, a member of the Western circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 15 April, 1868 (then aged 21), called to the bar 30 April, 1872 (2nd son of late Charles Stirling, of Buckeridge, Devon); born , 1847.
    1, Chester Place, Regent's Park, N.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Stokes, Henry

​Stokes, Henry, undergraduate St. John's Coll., Camb., a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 6 Jan., 1870 (then aged 21), called to the bar 30 April, 1873 (eldest son of Henry Graham Stokes, of London, solicitor); born , 1849; married 3 Aug., 1875, Harriet, 2nd dau. of William Henry Sewell, Esq., of Loughton, Essex.
    3, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Stokes, Philip Folliott Scott

​Stokes, Philip Folliott Scott, LL.B. (honours) London Univ. 1879, B.A. prizeman 1872, and a member of Convocation, of St. Cuthbert's Coll., Durham, 1864-74, a student of the Inner Temple 14 Jan., 1876 (then aged 23), studentship in jurisprudence 1877, Whewell international law scholarship 1877, scholarship in equity 1877, called to the bar 18 Nov., 1878 (eldest surviving son of Scott Nasmyth Stokes, Esq., bar.-at-law and inspector of schools); born 18 Dec, 1852; married 6 Aug., 1884, Mary Fenwick, only child of Richard Christopher Rapier, Esq., of Brinkburn, Upper Tooting Park.
    1, Culverton Road, Tooting Park, S.W.; 7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Stokes, Whitley

​Stokes, Whitley, C.S.I. 1877, C.I.E. , 1879, hon. LL.D. Dublin 1868, B.A., Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1852, correspondent of the French Institute (Académie des Inscriptions), law member of council of governor-general of India 1877-82, sometime reporter High Court Madras, and secretary to government of India legislative department, author of treatises on The Liens of Legal Practitioners, Powers of Attorney, The Indian Companies Act 1866, The Indian Succession Act 1865, The Older Statutes in India, etc., editor of The Unrepealed General Acts of the Governor-General in Council, 3 vols., and of The Unrepealed Regulations and Local Acts, 11 vols., a student of the Inner Temple 9 Oct., 1851 (then aged 21), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1855 (eldest son of Professor William Stokes, of Dublin, M.D.); born 28 Feb., 1830; married 1st, 23 Dec., 1865, Mary, dau. of late Col. Bazely, of the Bengal artillery; she died , ; he married 2ndly, 18 Oct., 1884, Elizabeth, 3rd dau. of late William Temple, Esq.
    15, Grenville Place, South Kensington, S.W.; Athenæum Club.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Stirling, James

​Stirling, James, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1863, junior equity counsel to the treasury 1881, member of the Bar Committee since Dec., 1883, formerly reporter for Incorporated Council, a student of Lincoln's Inn 23 Jan., 1860 (then aged 23), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1862 (eldest son of Rev. James Stirling, of Aberdeen); born 3 May, 1836; married 12 May, 1868, Aby, eldest dau. of John Thomson, Esq., of Shalford, Surrey.
    Room 545, Royal Courts of Justice, W.C.; 61, Carey Street, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Stock, Edward Wood

​Stock, Edward Wood, LL.B., St. John's Coll., Camb., 1863, a student of Lincoln's Inn 20 April, 1849 (then aged 17), called to the bar 30 April, 1857 (eldest son of Edward Stock, Esq., of Poplar, Middlesex); born 14 Jan., 1832; married 1st, 29 Dec., 1864, Barbara Forbes, eldest dau. of James Milne Innes, of Balveny and Edengight, co. Banff); she died 24 March, 1872; he married 2ndly, 23 Dec., 1882, Lillies Georgiana, 6th dau. of late Thomas R. Leadam, Esq., M.D., of Mortimer, Berks.
    8, Essex Villas, Kensington, W.; 1, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.