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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... measures of hostility against France in the event of Great Britain giving way as to her Orders so far as to afford an opportunity to the United States to assert their rights against France . During the month of March , Turreau watched ...
... measures of hostility against France in the event of Great Britain giving way as to her Orders so far as to afford an opportunity to the United States to assert their rights against France . During the month of March , Turreau watched ...
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... measures adopted by Congress , I believe it would be well to await the result of the next session two months hence before taking a severer course against the Americans . This opinion , which I express only with doubt , is yet warranted ...
... measures adopted by Congress , I believe it would be well to await the result of the next session two months hence before taking a severer course against the Americans . This opinion , which I express only with doubt , is yet warranted ...
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... measure of inconvenient re- striction upon the American people , " a paragraph easily overlooked had been inserted to provide for future chances of fortune : " It is not improbable , indeed , that some alterations may be made in the ...
... measure of inconvenient re- striction upon the American people , " a paragraph easily overlooked had been inserted to provide for future chances of fortune : " It is not improbable , indeed , that some alterations may be made in the ...
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... measure conceded nothing in principle , he offered it as a step toward removing the most offensive , if not the most oppres- sive , restraint imposed on American commerce by the Orders of 1807 : " As I have more than once understood ...
... measure conceded nothing in principle , he offered it as a step toward removing the most offensive , if not the most oppres- sive , restraint imposed on American commerce by the Orders of 1807 : " As I have more than once understood ...
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... measures proposed in Campbell's Report , though clothed in hostile lan- guage , might , if made known to the British govern- ment in amicable terms , have led to the acceptance of the compromise proposed , since they excluded French as ...
... measures proposed in Campbell's Report , though clothed in hostile lan- guage , might , if made known to the British govern- ment in amicable terms , have led to the acceptance of the compromise proposed , since they excluded French as ...
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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.