The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 3Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1887 - Presidents |
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... doubt about his fine attainments in these directions . He had a natural taste for mathematical branches , and especially during his last year in school , devoted three - fifths of every twenty - four hours to hard study , showing not ...
... doubt about his fine attainments in these directions . He had a natural taste for mathematical branches , and especially during his last year in school , devoted three - fifths of every twenty - four hours to hard study , showing not ...
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... doubt- lessly also among the very few who can justly be designated statesmen . While he was a student of law at Williamsburg the disputes began with England , which led to war with the Colonies and their final independence as a nation ...
... doubt- lessly also among the very few who can justly be designated statesmen . While he was a student of law at Williamsburg the disputes began with England , which led to war with the Colonies and their final independence as a nation ...
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... doubt that , if the service of his country had not called him away so soon from his profession , his fame as a lawyer would now have stood upon the same distinguished ground which he confess- edly occupies as a statesman , an author ...
... doubt that , if the service of his country had not called him away so soon from his profession , his fame as a lawyer would now have stood upon the same distinguished ground which he confess- edly occupies as a statesman , an author ...
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... doubts may still remain as to their historic accuracy . In the preceding vol- umes of this work some attempt was made to arrive at a just distribution of some of these small affairs , and especially as to the formulation of the American ...
... doubts may still remain as to their historic accuracy . In the preceding vol- umes of this work some attempt was made to arrive at a just distribution of some of these small affairs , and especially as to the formulation of the American ...
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... doubt led , mainly , to his selection for that purpose , by the other members of the Committee of the Congress , consisting of himself , John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , and Rich- ard Henry Lee . On the first day of August , after a ...
... doubt led , mainly , to his selection for that purpose , by the other members of the Committee of the Congress , consisting of himself , John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , and Rich- ard Henry Lee . On the first day of August , after a ...
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Page 161 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Page 59 - For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : For imposing taxes on us without our consent : For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses : For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province...
Page 163 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government...
Page 227 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Page 163 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 226 - And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 268 - 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.
Page 214 - ... deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the...
Page 162 - ... to be apportioned on them by congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other states...
Page 158 - ... may be conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered, by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers, shall be appointed for that purpose...