The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 12Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 - History - 505 pages Volume 12 in the 20-book set of writings from Thomas Jefferson, this text includes the letters the president wrote after his return to the United States from France in 1789 until his death in 1826. This volume also includesan essay entitledJefferson's Passports to Immorality by George Graham Vest, a former senator from Missouri. |
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Page 12
... ship for it . We are already overwhelmed with applications , and there is real danger that the great object of the embargo in keeping our ships and seamen out of harm's way , will be defeated ; and every vessel and seaman sent out under ...
... ship for it . We are already overwhelmed with applications , and there is real danger that the great object of the embargo in keeping our ships and seamen out of harm's way , will be defeated ; and every vessel and seaman sent out under ...
Page 35
... ship and cargo seized . But as the Topaz would be insufficient to bring home the whole property if cleared , the permission of sending a vessel may be on the ordinary ground of bringing home the property . But do the restrictions of the ...
... ship and cargo seized . But as the Topaz would be insufficient to bring home the whole property if cleared , the permission of sending a vessel may be on the ordinary ground of bringing home the property . But do the restrictions of the ...
Page 38
... ship to be built for him , so that she will be his from the time of laying the keel ; or he may contract so as that she shall be his only when launched , or when rigged , etc. The act of delivery to 38 Jefferson's Works.
... ship to be built for him , so that she will be his from the time of laying the keel ; or he may contract so as that she shall be his only when launched , or when rigged , etc. The act of delivery to 38 Jefferson's Works.
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... ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or her colonies , loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies , shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the ports of New Orleans , and in all other legal ...
... ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or her colonies , loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies , shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the ports of New Orleans , and in all other legal ...
Page 67
... ships , which I enclose you , does not specify the particular act required from us for their relief . If it be to declare that the open sea in front of their coast is a bay or a river , the matter of fact , as well as the law , renders ...
... ships , which I enclose you , does not specify the particular act required from us for their relief . If it be to declare that the open sea in front of their coast is a bay or a river , the matter of fact , as well as the law , renders ...
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Page vii - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page vii - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Page xxxi - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page i - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page xxxi - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them...
Page viii - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page xxxiii - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 37 - French ships coming directly from France or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce and manufactures of France or her said colonies; and the ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the port of New Orleans, and in all other legal ports of entry within the ceded territory, in the same manner as the ships of the United States...
Page 266 - Here I am : witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed : whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken ? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. 4. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page xxxi - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people— a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...