The History of the United States of America, Volume 4Harper & brothers, 1879 - United States |
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... Provisions for a final Settlement of Revolutionary Accounts 218 Sinking Fund ... Naturalization Act . Patent and Copy - right Acts Regulation of Sermen . Indian Trade and Intercourse . Crimes against the United States . Foreign ...
... Provisions for a final Settlement of Revolutionary Accounts 218 Sinking Fund ... Naturalization Act . Patent and Copy - right Acts Regulation of Sermen . Indian Trade and Intercourse . Crimes against the United States . Foreign ...
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... Provisions 254 Resolutions of State Legislatures against it Hamilton's Report on a National Bank . Retrospect of the State of the Currency .. 256 256 256 Expediency of a National Bank .... 261 Debate thereon ; Question of ...
... Provisions 254 Resolutions of State Legislatures against it Hamilton's Report on a National Bank . Retrospect of the State of the Currency .. 256 256 256 Expediency of a National Bank .... 261 Debate thereon ; Question of ...
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... Provision for the Redemption of the Public Debt ... 530 531 532 532 536 Hamilton and Knox retire from Office ... Provisions of the Treaty Special Session of the Senate - new Members The Senate advise the Ratification of the Treaty ...
... Provision for the Redemption of the Public Debt ... 530 531 532 532 536 Hamilton and Knox retire from Office ... Provisions of the Treaty Special Session of the Senate - new Members The Senate advise the Ratification of the Treaty ...
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... Provision Order ; Publication of the Treaty Embarrassment of Monroe - his Reasons for not resigning . 668 Still adheres to the Idea of subsidizing France .. Randolph's Dispatches ; the French Directory Pickering's Justification of Jay's ...
... Provision Order ; Publication of the Treaty Embarrassment of Monroe - his Reasons for not resigning . 668 Still adheres to the Idea of subsidizing France .. Randolph's Dispatches ; the French Directory Pickering's Justification of Jay's ...
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... Senate , the framing of a Judiciary Act , and in the House , the provision of a revenue by imposing dụ ties on imports . I. Indeed , the House had not waited for the 84 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES . Classification of Senators; Oaths.
... Senate , the framing of a Judiciary Act , and in the House , the provision of a revenue by imposing dụ ties on imports . I. Indeed , the House had not waited for the 84 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES . Classification of Senators; Oaths.
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Page 674 - ... constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion...
Page 166 - The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race," incorporated by Act of Assembly passed the 8th day of December, AD 1789, of which Dr.
Page 102 - State; he shall digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of the public credit...
Page 605 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance, as they have already done the forms, of the British Government.
Page 351 - The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution, I was duped into by the Secretary of the Treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me ; and, of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret.
Page 598 - No, sir: it will not be peace, but a sword: it will be no better than a lure to draw victims within the reach of the tomahawk. On this theme, my emotions are unutterable. If I could find words for them — if my powers bore any proportion to my zeal — I would swell my voice to such a note of remonstrance it should reach every log-house beyond the mountains.
Page 193 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 190 - ... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 349 - I considered myself as compelled to this conduct by reasons public as well as personal, of the most cogent nature. I know that I have been an object of uniform opposition from Mr. Jefferson, from the moment of his coming to the city of New- York to enter upon his present office. I know from the most authentic sources, that I have been the frequent subject of the most unkind whispers and insinuations from the same quarter. I have long seen a formed party in the legislature under his auspices, bent...
Page 352 - I acknowledge and avow; and this was not merely a speculative difference. His system flowed from principles adverse to liberty, and was calculated to undermine and demolish the republic, by creating an influence of his department over members of the legislature.