History of the United States of America During the First Administration of James Madison, Volume 5C. Scribner's sons, 1890 - United States |
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... . More than once the Federalist cabinets had been convulsed 1 Madison to Henry Lee , February , 1827 ; Works , iii . 562 , 564 . by disagreements , but the Administration of Madison had hardly 1809 . SUBSIDENCE OF FACTION .
... . More than once the Federalist cabinets had been convulsed 1 Madison to Henry Lee , February , 1827 ; Works , iii . 562 , 564 . by disagreements , but the Administration of Madison had hardly 1809 . SUBSIDENCE OF FACTION .
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... Federalists to defeat the President's wish . Yet the majority was so small as to prove that Madison would carry his ... Federalist than the 12 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES . CH . 1 .
... Federalists to defeat the President's wish . Yet the majority was so small as to prove that Madison would carry his ... Federalist than the 12 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES . CH . 1 .
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Henry Adams. New Hampshire Rhode Island followed . edly Federalist than the old one . effected the same revolution . In New York the Federalists carried the Legislature , as they did also in Maryland . Even in Pennsylvania , although ...
Henry Adams. New Hampshire Rhode Island followed . edly Federalist than the old one . effected the same revolution . In New York the Federalists carried the Legislature , as they did also in Maryland . Even in Pennsylvania , although ...
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... Federalist leaders at Boston found disunion a very delicate topic , and that " an unpopular war . . . can alone produce a sudden separation of any section of this country from the common head . " 1 In public , the most violent Federalists ...
... Federalist leaders at Boston found disunion a very delicate topic , and that " an unpopular war . . . can alone produce a sudden separation of any section of this country from the common head . " 1 In public , the most violent Federalists ...
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... Federalist leaders and newspapers grumbled with- out intermission that their life - blood was drained to support a negro - slave aristocracy , " baser than its own slaves , " as their phrase went ; but they took the profits thrust upon ...
... Federalist leaders and newspapers grumbled with- out intermission that their life - blood was drained to support a negro - slave aristocracy , " baser than its own slaves , " as their phrase went ; but they took the profits thrust upon ...
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Page 319 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 17 - If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Page 349 - Shall the main question be now put?" It was decided in the affirmative.
Page 191 - France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," it is provided "that in case either Great Britain or France shall before the 3d day of March next so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Page 323 - The wisdom of Congress will at the same time determine how far it may be expedient to provide for the event of a subversion of the Spanish authorities within the Territory in question, and an apprehended occupancy thereof by any other foreign power.
Page 333 - The power to create corporations is not expressly granted. It is a high attribute of sovereignty, and in its nature not accessorial or derivative by implication, but primary and independent.
Page 310 - ... that in the hands of the United States it will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment...
Page 321 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 1 - Assuring myself that, under every vicissitude, the determined spirit and united councils of the nation will be safeguards to its honor and its essential interests, I repair to the post assigned me with no other discouragement than what springs from my own inadequacy to its high duties.