The History of the United States of AmericaHarper & Brothers, 1879 - United States |
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... obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces , by fraud or violence , by terror , in- trigue , or venality , the government may not be the choice of the American people , but of foreign nations . And candid men will acknowledge ...
... obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces , by fraud or violence , by terror , in- trigue , or venality , the government may not be the choice of the American people , but of foreign nations . And candid men will acknowledge ...
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... obtained , to lay the facts before the Legislature , that they may consider what further measures the honor and interest of the government and its constituents demand ; if a resolution to do justice , as far as may depend upon me , at ...
... obtained , to lay the facts before the Legislature , that they may consider what further measures the honor and interest of the government and its constituents demand ; if a resolution to do justice , as far as may depend upon me , at ...
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... obtain orders from the Directory , and then send an answer . A Dec. 15 secretary of De la Croix's informed Pinckney , two or three days after , that , as the Directory did not intend to acknowledge him as minister , and did not mean to ...
... obtain orders from the Directory , and then send an answer . A Dec. 15 secretary of De la Croix's informed Pinckney , two or three days after , that , as the Directory did not intend to acknowledge him as minister , and did not mean to ...
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... obtained that dismissal in writing which he deemed essential , Pinckney wrote the next day for passports , and having Feb. 3. obtained them , speedily departed for Holland . Meanwhile the French cruisers were busily employed in giving ...
... obtained that dismissal in writing which he deemed essential , Pinckney wrote the next day for passports , and having Feb. 3. obtained them , speedily departed for Holland . Meanwhile the French cruisers were busily employed in giving ...
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... obtained ? Is a direct mission to France , of which Madison is to be a member , in your view indispensable ? " I should be sorry if the friends of government should consider me , or any of the public officers , as desirous of producing ...
... obtained ? Is a direct mission to France , of which Madison is to be a member , in your view indispensable ? " I should be sorry if the friends of government should consider me , or any of the public officers , as desirous of producing ...
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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.