The History of the United States of AmericaHarper & Brothers, 1879 - United States |
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... Federal Courts .. 230 Policy of , and Reasons for , the Sedition Law . Party Violence ; Jefferson on the Union ..... Rising Spirit of Support to the Administration .. Debtors of the United States .... 231 232 235 236 Hospital Money ...
... Federal Courts .. 230 Policy of , and Reasons for , the Sedition Law . Party Violence ; Jefferson on the Union ..... Rising Spirit of Support to the Administration .. Debtors of the United States .... 231 232 235 236 Hospital Money ...
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... FEDERAL PARTY . COM- MISSIONS UNDER THE BRITISH TREATY SUSPENDED . FIRST SESSION OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS . DEATH OF WASHINGTON , INDIANA TERRITORY . NAVAL AFFAIRS . Election Canvass in Virginia ... . 306 Washington's Letter to Patrick ...
... FEDERAL PARTY . COM- MISSIONS UNDER THE BRITISH TREATY SUSPENDED . FIRST SESSION OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS . DEATH OF WASHINGTON , INDIANA TERRITORY . NAVAL AFFAIRS . Election Canvass in Virginia ... . 306 Washington's Letter to Patrick ...
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... Federal Courts .... 318 Doctrine of Nullification ..... Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 ... Madison's Report on State Rights Monroe Governor of Virginia .. The new Mission to France .. 319 319 320 321 321 Instructions to the Envoys .. 322 ...
... Federal Courts .... 318 Doctrine of Nullification ..... Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 ... Madison's Report on State Rights Monroe Governor of Virginia .. The new Mission to France .. 319 319 320 321 321 Instructions to the Envoys .. 322 ...
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... FEDERAL OPPONENTS . CON- VENTION WITH FRANCE . PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS . REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO WASH- INGTON . SECOND SESSION OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS . JUDICIARY ACT . PROJECT FOR MAKING BURR PRES- IDENT . DOWNFALL OF THE FEDERAL ...
... FEDERAL OPPONENTS . CON- VENTION WITH FRANCE . PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS . REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO WASH- INGTON . SECOND SESSION OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS . JUDICIARY ACT . PROJECT FOR MAKING BURR PRES- IDENT . DOWNFALL OF THE FEDERAL ...
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... Federal Party .... 415 CHAPTER XVI . INAUGURATION OF JEFFERSON . AP- STATE ELECTIONS . POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS . HOSTILITIES WITH TRIPOLI . SEVENTH CONGRESS . CENSUS AND APPOR- TIONMENT . RETRENCHMENTS . REPEAL OF THE JU- DICIARY ACT ...
... Federal Party .... 415 CHAPTER XVI . INAUGURATION OF JEFFERSON . AP- STATE ELECTIONS . POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS . HOSTILITIES WITH TRIPOLI . SEVENTH CONGRESS . CENSUS AND APPOR- TIONMENT . RETRENCHMENTS . REPEAL OF THE JU- DICIARY ACT ...
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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 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.
Page 450 - It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course.
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.