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American History Told by Contemporaries ... Albert Bushnell Hart,John Gould Curtis Volledige weergave - 1901 |
American History Told by Contemporaries ... Albert Bushnell Hart,John Gould Curtis Volledige weergave - 1901 |
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Adams American answer Anti-federalists appointed articles of confederation authority bank Bashaw Bibliography Britain British Channing and Hart character Charles Francis Adams citizens commerce committee Confederation Congress Connecticut consideration Constitution Convention Court debate debt declared delegates Don Andrew duty England equal established Europe executive federal federalists foreign France French gentlemen Georgia give GOUVERNEUR MORRIS hath honor House important interest island Jefferson John Adams land laws legislature letter liberty Louisiana Massachusetts measure ment minister Narrative and Critical nature navigation necessary never object officers opinion paper party passim peace Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pinckney political possession present President principles proposed question republican respect revolution river Senate ships slaves South Carolina Spain spirit Talleyrand territory thing tion trade treaty Union United vessels Virginia vote Washington whole William Maclay wish York
Populaire passages
Pagina 478 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Pagina xxi - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Pagina 327 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Pagina 329 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith ; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Pagina 479 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Pagina 530 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Pagina 403 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Pagina 327 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Pagina 299 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 518 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.