 | John Robison Cartwright - 1892 - 798 pages
...They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal, as well as a just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a curtain sense they were permitted to exercise rights of sovereignty over it. They might sell or... | |
 | James Kent - 1884 - 730 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 discretion, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government claiming the right of... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry Benjamin Whipple, Julius Hawley Seelye - 1885 - 540 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 discretion, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government claiming the right of... | |
 | 1909 - 1286 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. Office of Education, Alice Cunningham Fletcher - 1888 - 712 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as jnst 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. Congress. Senate - 1888 - 710 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 owu discretion; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily... | |
 | Freeman Snow - 1893 - 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 their... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - 1893 - 628 pages
...International, pt. i. cap. i. § 8 ; Merlin, Repertoire, sv 'souverainete.' legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to •use it according to their discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations were necessarily diminished,... | |
 | John Westlake - 1894 - 310 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... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1897
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as a 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 nearly diminished and their... | |
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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... 
