 WHEREAS it appears, that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, on the one part, and France on the other ; and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 2251832Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1965 - 824 pages
...inauguration, on April 22, 1793, Washington issued a "Proclamation of Neutrality" announcing the decision to "adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the Belligerent Powers." The President advised the citizens of the United States to avoid all acts which might be in contradiction... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 188 pages
...inauguration, on April 22, 1793, Washington issued a "Proclamation of Neutrality" announcing the decision to "adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the Belligerent Powers." The President advised the citizens of the United States to avoid all acts which might be in contradiction... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - History - 1972 - 244 pages
...delicacy. But I do not accord with your idea that "the duty and interest of the United States require that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt...friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers" leagued against France. It is not their duty, because, though bound by no express contract, yet there... | |
 | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry - History - 1985 - 652 pages
...Propriety declared "that the Duty & Interest of the united States require that they should with Sincerity & good faith adopt and pursue a Conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers _" a celebrated writer on the Law of Nations very justly observes that "as nature has given to Men... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 1997 - 356 pages
...proclamation.8 "[T]he duty and interest of the United States," wrote the President, required that they "adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers." He therefore deemed it appropriate "to declare the disposition of the United States" to act in a friendly... | |
 | Marie-Jeanne Rossignol - History - 2004 - 304 pages
...Europe was ablaze, but in the president's words, "the duty and interest of the United States require that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt...conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers."14 This declaration was somewhat hasty, as France had not asked her ally to enter the war.... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...France, and to dissolve the friendship which united the people of the two republics. The declaration that 'the duty and interest of the United States required...friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers', gave peculiar umbrage. The scenes of the revolutionary war were brought into review; the object and... | |
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