The History of the United States of America, Volume 5Harper & brothers, 1879 - United States |
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... Affairs ... Proposed Coalition with Adams .... Jefferson's Ideas on that Subject .... Contrast of Character in Jefferson and Adams Adams's Letters pending the Presidential Election ..... Political Views of the new President ...
... Affairs ... Proposed Coalition with Adams .... Jefferson's Ideas on that Subject .... Contrast of Character in Jefferson and Adams Adams's Letters pending the Presidential Election ..... Political Views of the new President ...
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... Affairs . 91 94 96 CHAPTER XI . MONROE'S RETURN . SLANDEROUS ATTACK ON HAMIL- TON . ADVENTURES OF THE SPECIAL MISSION TO FRANCE . Monroe's Reception at Philadelphia .. French Policy as developed by Merlin .. Monroe demands the Reasons ...
... Affairs . 91 94 96 CHAPTER XI . MONROE'S RETURN . SLANDEROUS ATTACK ON HAMIL- TON . ADVENTURES OF THE SPECIAL MISSION TO FRANCE . Monroe's Reception at Philadelphia .. French Policy as developed by Merlin .. Monroe demands the Reasons ...
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... Affairs in France ... 128 Talleyrand's unofficial Communications 129 Dispatches to America ... Official Reapplication to Talleyrand . Further unofficial Communications . Further Dispatches to America Gerry's diplomatic Dinner ..... His ...
... Affairs in France ... 128 Talleyrand's unofficial Communications 129 Dispatches to America ... Official Reapplication to Talleyrand . Further unofficial Communications . Further Dispatches to America Gerry's diplomatic Dinner ..... His ...
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... AFFAIRS . PROSECU- TIONS UNDER THE SEDITION LAW . GERRY AND LO GAN . AMERICAN SQUADRONS IN THE WEST INDIES . NULLIFICATION . RESOLUTIONS OF KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA . THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS . NEW MISSION TO FRANCE . Washington ...
... AFFAIRS . PROSECU- TIONS UNDER THE SEDITION LAW . GERRY AND LO GAN . AMERICAN SQUADRONS IN THE WEST INDIES . NULLIFICATION . RESOLUTIONS OF KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA . THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS . NEW MISSION TO FRANCE . Washington ...
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... Affairs of St. Domingo .. 269 Squadrons in the West Indies ; Private armed Vessels .. 270 Affairs of Gaudaloupe ; Capture and Release of Bainbridge 270 Secret History of the Kentucky Resolutions ... 272 Jefferson's original Draught ...
... Affairs of St. Domingo .. 269 Squadrons in the West Indies ; Private armed Vessels .. 270 Affairs of Gaudaloupe ; Capture and Release of Bainbridge 270 Secret History of the Kentucky Resolutions ... 272 Jefferson's original Draught ...
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Page 284 - 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 227 - ... 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 450 - 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 480 - 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 490 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 167 - 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 167 - 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 276 - 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 499 - In the salutary operation of this sagacious and benevolent restraint it is believed that the inhabitants of Indiana will at no very distant day find ample remuneration for a temporary privation of labor and of emigration.
Page 276 - ... 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, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.