History of the United States of America: The first administration of James Madison, 1809-1813Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890 - United States |
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... Cabinet ; but after declining an arrangement in his favor , he could not fairly desert the President , who had offered to sacrifice much for him , and he was too proud to avow a personal slight as the motive of his public action ...
... Cabinet ; but after declining an arrangement in his favor , he could not fairly desert the President , who had offered to sacrifice much for him , and he was too proud to avow a personal slight as the motive of his public action ...
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... Cabinet was the least satisfactory that any President had known . 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 ...
... Cabinet was the least satisfactory that any President had known . 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 ...
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... Cabinet by Gallatin , stood in a position of inevitable hostility to his influence , al- though they represented neither ideas nor constit- uents . While Gallatin exacted economy , the army and navy required expenditures , and the two ...
... Cabinet by Gallatin , stood in a position of inevitable hostility to his influence , al- though they represented neither ideas nor constit- uents . While Gallatin exacted economy , the army and navy required expenditures , and the two ...
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... Cabinet , Madison sent the names of J. Q. Adams as minister at St. Petersburg , and of Thomas Sumter as minister to Brazil . He asked the Senate to establish two new missions at once . March 7 the Senate confirmed all the other ...
... Cabinet , Madison sent the names of J. Q. Adams as minister at St. Petersburg , and of Thomas Sumter as minister to Brazil . He asked the Senate to establish two new missions at once . March 7 the Senate confirmed all the other ...
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... Cabinet ; and Mr. Madison values to - day the possession of the Floridas only so far as they may be thought in- dispensable to prevent every kind of misunderstanding with Spain , and to secure an outlet for the produce of our Southern ...
... Cabinet ; and Mr. Madison values to - day the possession of the Floridas only so far as they may be thought in- dispensable to prevent every kind of misunderstanding with Spain , and to secure an outlet for the produce of our Southern ...
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Page 323 - 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 297 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," that "in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Page 195 - 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 177 - That these will be met in a spirit worthy of the councils of a nation conscious both of its rectitude and of its rights, and careful as well of its honor as of its peace, I have an entire confidence. And that the result will be stamped by a unanimity becoming the occasion, and be supported by every portion of our citizens, with a patriotism enlightened and invigorated by experience, ought as little to be doubted.
Page 327 - 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 325 - 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 314 - ... that in the hands of the United States it will not cease to be a subject of fair and friendly negotiation and adjustment...
Page 3 - 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.
Page 2 - Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the United States to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutral obligations with the most scrupulous impartiality. If there be candor in the world, the truth of these assertions will not be questioned; posterity at least will do justice to them.
Page 4 - States as the basis of their peace and happiness; to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system...