The History of the United States of America, Volume 5Harper & brothers, 1879 - United States |
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... Conduct ..... 221 Merchant Vessels authorized to resist Search or Seizure .. 22 Additional Ships of War ..... 22 French Treaties declared void ..... 222 Authority to capture armed French Vessels ..... 222 Additional Naval Armament ...
... Conduct ..... 221 Merchant Vessels authorized to resist Search or Seizure .. 22 Additional Ships of War ..... 22 French Treaties declared void ..... 222 Authority to capture armed French Vessels ..... 222 Additional Naval Armament ...
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... Conduct .... 261 Return of Pinckney ; Military Arrangements ... 264 Return of Logan ; his Interview with Washington ..... 265 Honors to the President ..... 267 American Cruisers - their Collisions with the British .... 267 Affairs of St ...
... Conduct .... 261 Return of Pinckney ; Military Arrangements ... 264 Return of Logan ; his Interview with Washington ..... 265 Honors to the President ..... 267 American Cruisers - their Collisions with the British .... 267 Affairs of St ...
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... Conduct 664 Politics of New England ... 665 Politics of Pennsylvania .. 666 Politics of New York 666 Proceedings against Burr 668 Subsequent Fortunes of Burr .. 673 The Driver Sloop of War .... British Naval Deserters .. 674 674 Admiral ...
... Conduct 664 Politics of New England ... 665 Politics of Pennsylvania .. 666 Politics of New York 666 Proceedings against Burr 668 Subsequent Fortunes of Burr .. 673 The Driver Sloop of War .... British Naval Deserters .. 674 674 Admiral ...
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... conduct , and complete any very useful system . " The debate on Jay's treaty being then fully under way , we find him exhibiting , a few days after , the spirit of an old war- horse , pawing the ground and panting for the battle : March ...
... conduct , and complete any very useful system . " The debate on Jay's treaty being then fully under way , we find him exhibiting , a few days after , the spirit of an old war- horse , pawing the ground and panting for the battle : March ...
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... conducting a people inspired with the same virtues , and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty , to independence and peace , to increased wealth and unexampled prosperity , has merited the gratitude of his fellow ...
... conducting a people inspired with the same virtues , and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty , to independence and peace , to increased wealth and unexampled prosperity , has merited the gratitude of his fellow ...
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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.