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... Directory would not re- ceive another minister plenipotentiary from the United States till after that redress of grievances which the French government had a right to expect . Yet there might , notwithstanding this determination ...
... Directory would not re- ceive another minister plenipotentiary from the United States till after that redress of grievances which the French government had a right to expect . Yet there might , notwithstanding this determination ...
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... Directory knew of no American minister ; as to Pinckney's going or staying , he would obtain orders from the Directory , and then send an answer . Two or three days after , a secre- Dec. 15 . tary of De la Croix's informed Pinckney that ...
... Directory knew of no American minister ; as to Pinckney's going or staying , he would obtain orders from the Directory , and then send an answer . Two or three days after , a secre- Dec. 15 . tary of De la Croix's informed Pinckney that ...
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... Directory ; ex- pressed great surprise that Pinckney was not satisfied ; and intimated that , if he did not depart soon , the minis- ter of police would be informed of the fact . But as an order in writing for Pinckney's departure was ...
... Directory ; ex- pressed great surprise that Pinckney was not satisfied ; and intimated that , if he did not depart soon , the minis- ter of police would be informed of the fact . But as an order in writing for Pinckney's departure was ...
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... Directory . " Mr. Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of Amer- ica " -such was the reply of Barras- " by presenting this day to the Executive Directory your letter of recall , you offer a very strange spectacle to Europe ...
... Directory . " Mr. Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of Amer- ica " -such was the reply of Barras- " by presenting this day to the Executive Directory your letter of recall , you offer a very strange spectacle to Europe ...
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... Directory , so Pinckney was informed , that the United States were of no greater consequence and need be treated with no greater ceremony than Genoa . News having reached Paris of Bonaparte's great victory at Rivoli , securing , by the ...
... Directory , so Pinckney was informed , that the United States were of no greater consequence and need be treated with no greater ceremony than Genoa . News having reached Paris of Bonaparte's great victory at Rivoli , securing , by the ...
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Page 189 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 145 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Page 418 - Mexican republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 145 - But, to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall, on a fair and impartial trial, be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Page 38 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations, for eight years, under the administration of a citizen, who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues, and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty,...
Page 39 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the Constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it, until it shall be altered by the...
Page 242 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...
Page 239 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 197 - ... to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute ; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 278 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who"' -'formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is...