 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1840 - 1114 pages
...natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own direction, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the Government claiming the... | |
 | 1840 - 988 pages
...natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal, as well as just, claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own direction, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the Government claiming the... | |
 | 1844 - 472 pages
...relied a* against eaih other, came to be considered in the negotiation, their effect in the treatv was in the nature of an arbitrament. (See History...their own pleasure, except to that European nation wiio claimed the ultimate dominion by right of discovery and settlement. In short, discovery and settlement... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 636 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1848 - 638 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 666 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - 1853 - 364 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were diminished, and their power... | |
 | William Rudolph Smith - 1854 - 448 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | William Rudolph Smith - 1854 - 432 pages
...impaired, They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 652 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
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In the establishment of these relations the rights of the original inhabitants were, in no instance, entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal... 
