A Century of American Diplomacy: Being a Brief Review of the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1776-1876 |
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... representatives in Europe Negotiations with the French court and the treaties of 1778 . Reception of French minister by Congress Franklin's trouble with his colleagues Appointed sole minister to France CHAPTER II . THE TREATY OF PEACE ...
... representatives in Europe Negotiations with the French court and the treaties of 1778 . Reception of French minister by Congress Franklin's trouble with his colleagues Appointed sole minister to France CHAPTER II . THE TREATY OF PEACE ...
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... representatives of the Revolutionary period • CHAPTER IV . THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE . The defects of the Confederation lead to the Constitutional Con- vention . • Division of powers under the Constitution Discussion ...
... representatives of the Revolutionary period • CHAPTER IV . THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE . The defects of the Confederation lead to the Constitutional Con- vention . • Division of powers under the Constitution Discussion ...
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... representatives abroad , considering the poverty of its treasury and the large demands upon it for the conduct of the war . The annual allowances to Dr. Franklin and Messrs . Adams and Jay were over $ 11,000 each a more liberal sum than ...
... representatives abroad , considering the poverty of its treasury and the large demands upon it for the conduct of the war . The annual allowances to Dr. Franklin and Messrs . Adams and Jay were over $ 11,000 each a more liberal sum than ...
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... representative sent abroad went in strange contrast with our diplomats of later days . Information had been received through friends of Dr. Franklin that France was inclined to render the cause aid in a surrep- titious manner , but that ...
... representative sent abroad went in strange contrast with our diplomats of later days . Information had been received through friends of Dr. Franklin that France was inclined to render the cause aid in a surrep- titious manner , but that ...
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... representatives at Paris , conceived a bitter enmity to Beaumarchais and Deane , and sent such reports to Congress as cast doubts upon the correctness of the accounts as rendered . Beaumarchais sought in vain a settlement up to his ...
... representatives at Paris , conceived a bitter enmity to Beaumarchais and Deane , and sent such reports to Congress as cast doubts upon the correctness of the accounts as rendered . Beaumarchais sought in vain a settlement up to his ...
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Page 471 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions or policy or internal administration of any foreign state ; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.
Page 392 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 439 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 444 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Page 118 - Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.
Page 257 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 425 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 136 - On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who inheriting inferior endowments from nature, and...
Page 199 - But I suppose they must then appeal to the nation for an additional article to the Constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union.
Page 189 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.