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... Washington had been called from his retire- ment at Mt. Vernon to assume the post of commander- in - chief of the army , while the active command was to be given to Hamilton . Hamilton had expressed great interest in Miranda's projects ...
... Washington had been called from his retire- ment at Mt. Vernon to assume the post of commander- in - chief of the army , while the active command was to be given to Hamilton . Hamilton had expressed great interest in Miranda's projects ...
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... Washington and lay his plans before the administration . This Miranda did . He was admitted to informal conferences both with Presi- dent Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison . Upon his return to New York he represented to those in ...
... Washington and lay his plans before the administration . This Miranda did . He was admitted to informal conferences both with Presi- dent Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison . Upon his return to New York he represented to those in ...
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... Washington . Jefferson's enemies made great political capital of the affair . Members of the cabinet were summoned as witnesses , but refused to appear . Privately Jefferson and Madison both denied most emphatically having in any way ...
... Washington . Jefferson's enemies made great political capital of the affair . Members of the cabinet were summoned as witnesses , but refused to appear . Privately Jefferson and Madison both denied most emphatically having in any way ...
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... Washington alone , was , like Miranda , a native of Caracas . Sprung from a family of wealth and influence he had , like most young South Americans of his class , received his education abroad , and had for several years led a ...
... Washington alone , was , like Miranda , a native of Caracas . Sprung from a family of wealth and influence he had , like most young South Americans of his class , received his education abroad , and had for several years led a ...
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... Washington seeking recognition of inde- pendence , and agents were forthwith dispatched to South America to obtain information in regard to 1 Am . St. Papers , For . Rel . , Vol . III , p . 538 . 2 Wharton's Digest , Sec . 69 , and ...
... Washington seeking recognition of inde- pendence , and agents were forthwith dispatched to South America to obtain information in regard to 1 Am . St. Papers , For . Rel . , Vol . III , p . 538 . 2 Wharton's Digest , Sec . 69 , and ...
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Page 72 - 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.
Page 72 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 135 - That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 71 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 186 - I am interested in the Panama Canal because I started it. If I had followed traditional, conservative methods, I should have submitted a dignified state paper of probably two hundred pages to the Congress, and the debate would have been going on yet.
Page 129 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 240 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Page 145 - States guarantee, positively, and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists ; and, in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 73 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 100 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question — Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question In.