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Page 11
... existence of which has been , by an appeal to the constitution itself , flatly denied ; and then , as if they were unanswerable , draw all the dreadful consequences that are necessary to alarm the appre- hensions of the ignorant or ...
... existence of which has been , by an appeal to the constitution itself , flatly denied ; and then , as if they were unanswerable , draw all the dreadful consequences that are necessary to alarm the appre- hensions of the ignorant or ...
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... existence . It was for a long time doubtful whether we were to survive as an independent republic , or decline from our federal dignity into insignificant and wretched fragments of an empire . The adoption of the constitution so ...
... existence . It was for a long time doubtful whether we were to survive as an independent republic , or decline from our federal dignity into insignificant and wretched fragments of an empire . The adoption of the constitution so ...
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... existence by a new convo- cation ; has unfitted its own members for immediate reëlection and for places in the executive ; and is now reducing the consti- tution to a few principal articles , leaving the legislative assem- blies to ...
... existence by a new convo- cation ; has unfitted its own members for immediate reëlection and for places in the executive ; and is now reducing the consti- tution to a few principal articles , leaving the legislative assem- blies to ...
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... existence . It was given by Washington himself to Mr. Claypoole , the printer . This manuscript , by the permission of Mr. Claypoole , I have examined , and it is wholly in the handwriting of Washington . It bears all the marks of a ...
... existence . It was given by Washington himself to Mr. Claypoole , the printer . This manuscript , by the permission of Mr. Claypoole , I have examined , and it is wholly in the handwriting of Washington . It bears all the marks of a ...
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... existence of such a mountain might well be questioned , were it not for the testi- mony of several respectable and enterprising traders , who have visited it , and who have exhibited several bushels of the salt to the curiosity of the ...
... existence of such a mountain might well be questioned , were it not for the testi- mony of several respectable and enterprising traders , who have visited it , and who have exhibited several bushels of the salt to the curiosity of the ...
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Page 13 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 20 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Page 21 - I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Page 13 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 17 - So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 12 - Union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those, who in any quarter may endeavour to weaken its bands.
Page 15 - From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose, and there being constant danger of excess the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
Page 12 - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page 12 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review some sentiments which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.