The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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Page 34
... president of the national assembly , Lafayette , on two successive days , procured the adoption of decrees essential to the establishment of Freedom in France ; one for the destruction of the Bastile , and another declaring the ...
... president of the national assembly , Lafayette , on two successive days , procured the adoption of decrees essential to the establishment of Freedom in France ; one for the destruction of the Bastile , and another declaring the ...
Page 85
... president of the United States . He attained the honors of the republic at the age of fifty - seven , in the forty - ninth year of independence . He was sixth in the succession , and with him closed the line of chief magistrates who had ...
... president of the United States . He attained the honors of the republic at the age of fifty - seven , in the forty - ninth year of independence . He was sixth in the succession , and with him closed the line of chief magistrates who had ...
Page 88
... president met the emergency with boldness and decision . The demonstration thus given of a determination that good faith should be practised , and the law have its way , no matter how unequal the litigating par- ties , operated ...
... president met the emergency with boldness and decision . The demonstration thus given of a determination that good faith should be practised , and the law have its way , no matter how unequal the litigating par- ties , operated ...
Page 89
... President Jackson in his bold demonstration against France , when that power wantonly refused to perform the stipulations it had made in a treaty of indemnity ; and thus he yielded his support to what was thought a warlike measure of ...
... President Jackson in his bold demonstration against France , when that power wantonly refused to perform the stipulations it had made in a treaty of indemnity ; and thus he yielded his support to what was thought a warlike measure of ...
Page 92
... president of the United States in 1825 , with the procla- mation of neutrality between the belligerents of Europe , made by Washington in 1793 , with the querulous complaints of your ministers against the French directory and the ...
... president of the United States in 1825 , with the procla- mation of neutrality between the belligerents of Europe , made by Washington in 1793 , with the querulous complaints of your ministers against the French directory and the ...
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