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... give it in full : " MONTICELLO , Oct. 24 , 1823 . " DEAR SIR : The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence . That made us a ...
... give it in full : " MONTICELLO , Oct. 24 , 1823 . " DEAR SIR : The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence . That made us a ...
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... system of States . The control which , with Florida Point , this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering on it , as well as all those whose waters flow into it , would fill up - 16 —
... system of States . The control which , with Florida Point , this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering on it , as well as all those whose waters flow into it , would fill up - 16 —
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... give to the colonization declaration of the Monroe message the meaning of “ no more European colonies . " But he confined his declaration to North America . He said : " It should be distinctly announced as our settled policy that no ...
... give to the colonization declaration of the Monroe message the meaning of “ no more European colonies . " But he confined his declaration to North America . He said : " It should be distinctly announced as our settled policy that no ...
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... gives it as his deliberate and published conclusion , that if the in- structions under which he set out upon his mission had not been revoked , peace between those angry belliger- ents would have been established as the result of his ...
... gives it as his deliberate and published conclusion , that if the in- structions under which he set out upon his mission had not been revoked , peace between those angry belliger- ents would have been established as the result of his ...
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... give to those re- publics the moral support of a sincere , liberal , and we think it will appear a useful , friendship . Those who think that the United States could enter as an ally into every war in which a friendly republican state ...
... give to those re- publics the moral support of a sincere , liberal , and we think it will appear a useful , friendship . Those who think that the United States could enter as an ally into every war in which a friendly republican state ...
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Page 16 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid, and accompany us in it. By acceding to her proposition, we detach her from the bands, bring her mighty weight into the scale of free government, and emancipate a continent at one stroke, which might otherwise linger long in doubt and difficulty.
Page 19 - 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 15 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 5 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Page 5 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance, when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected, when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation, when we may choose...
Page 20 - It was stated at the commencement of the last session that a great effort was then making in Spain and Portugal to improve the condition of the people of those countries, and that it appeared to be conducted with extraordinary moderation. It need scarcely be remarked that the result has been so far very different from what was then anticipated. Of events in that quarter of the globe with which we have so much intercourse, and from which we derive our origin, we have always been anxious and interested...
Page 50 - 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 43 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 7 - The day is not distant when we may formally require a meridian of partition through the ocean which separates the two hemispheres, on the hither side of which no European gun shall ever be heard, nor an American on the other; and when, during the rage of the eternal wars of Europe, the lion and the lamb, within our regions, shall lie down together in peace.
Page 42 - But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war, but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system, of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it.