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Page vii
... Gerry's diplomatic Dinner ... 142 His private Visits to Talleyrand 143 Memorial of the Envoys .. 143 Violent Decree against Neutral Commerce .. 144 Secret Threats and Inducements to Gerry .. 144 Interviews of the Envoys with Talleyrand ...
... Gerry's diplomatic Dinner ... 142 His private Visits to Talleyrand 143 Memorial of the Envoys .. 143 Violent Decree against Neutral Commerce .. 144 Secret Threats and Inducements to Gerry .. 144 Interviews of the Envoys with Talleyrand ...
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... Gerry's Conduct ..... 219 220 221 Merchant Vessels authorized to resist Search or Seizure .. 22 Additional Ships of War ..... 221 French Treaties declared void .... 222 Authority to capture armed French Vessels ... 222 Additional Naval ...
... Gerry's Conduct ..... 219 220 221 Merchant Vessels authorized to resist Search or Seizure .. 22 Additional Ships of War ..... 221 French Treaties declared void .... 222 Authority to capture armed French Vessels ... 222 Additional Naval ...
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... Gerry's Correspondence with Talleyrand .. 250 The X , Y , Z Explosion 253 Concluding Correspondence between Gerry and Talleyrand 253 Departure of Gerry ; Further Concessions by France ... 259 Logan at Paris ; Communication opened with ...
... Gerry's Correspondence with Talleyrand .. 250 The X , Y , Z Explosion 253 Concluding Correspondence between Gerry and Talleyrand 253 Departure of Gerry ; Further Concessions by France ... 259 Logan at Paris ; Communication opened with ...
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... Gerry , Pendleton , and Madison . 293 Lyon in the House - Motion for his Expulsion .... 295 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions not responded to .... 296 Attempt to repeal the Alien and Sedition Laws .... . 297 Ground of Opposition to the ...
... Gerry , Pendleton , and Madison . 293 Lyon in the House - Motion for his Expulsion .... 295 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions not responded to .... 296 Attempt to repeal the Alien and Sedition Laws .... . 297 Ground of Opposition to the ...
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... Gerry . 1796 This was the end , for the present at least , of all con- sultations between Adams and Jefferson as to public af fairs . Pinckney's despatches arrived a few days after ; and the very different views taken by the president ...
... Gerry . 1796 This was the end , for the present at least , of all con- sultations between Adams and Jefferson as to public af fairs . Pinckney's despatches arrived a few days after ; and the very different views taken by the president ...
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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.