A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Volume 1authority of Congress, 1896 - United States |
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... Algiers , that you may provide on their behalf what to you shall seem most expedient . GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , January 3 , 1791 . Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : I lay before you a copy of an exemplified ...
... Algiers , that you may provide on their behalf what to you shall seem most expedient . GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , January 3 , 1791 . Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : I lay before you a copy of an exemplified ...
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... Algiers , in conformity with your resolution of advice of the Ist instant , so soon as the moneys necessary shall be appropriated by the Legislature and shall be in readiness . The recognition of our treaty with the new Emperor of ...
... Algiers , in conformity with your resolution of advice of the Ist instant , so soon as the moneys necessary shall be appropriated by the Legislature and shall be in readiness . The recognition of our treaty with the new Emperor of ...
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... Algiers for the ransom of the thirteen Americans in captivity there for a sum not exceeding $ 40,000 , all expenses included , will the Senate approve the same ? Or is there any , and what , greater or lesser sum which they would fix on ...
... Algiers for the ransom of the thirteen Americans in captivity there for a sum not exceeding $ 40,000 , all expenses included , will the Senate approve the same ? Or is there any , and what , greater or lesser sum which they would fix on ...
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... Algiers . While it is proper our citizens should know that subjects which so much concern their interest and their feelings have duly engaged the attention of their Legislature and Executive , it would still be improper that some ...
... Algiers . While it is proper our citizens should know that subjects which so much concern their interest and their feelings have duly engaged the attention of their Legislature and Executive , it would still be improper that some ...
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... Algiers some other papers have been received , which , making a part of the same subjects , are now communicated for your information . GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , December 30 , 1793 . Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of ...
... Algiers some other papers have been received , which , making a part of the same subjects , are now communicated for your information . GO WASHINGTON . UNITED STATES , December 30 , 1793 . Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of ...
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Page 225 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them.
Page 12 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted to, or surveyed for, any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall,...
Page 224 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 224 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 223 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 33 - States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 225 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Page 222 - ... strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it...
Page 52 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Page 4 - Representative Houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.