History of the Federal Government, for Fifty Years: From March, 1789 to March, 1839 |
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... hostile attitude , he promptly prepared to check their inroads into our territory , by arms . At this period , there was reason to believe , that several tribes were instigated to commit depredations on people within the United States ...
... hostile attitude , he promptly prepared to check their inroads into our territory , by arms . At this period , there was reason to believe , that several tribes were instigated to commit depredations on people within the United States ...
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... hostile tribes of Indians in that part of the country , and many Americans were slain . This defeat led to an increase of regular troops in that quarter ; which was the occasion of some complaint , as if the military operations of the ...
... hostile tribes of Indians in that part of the country , and many Americans were slain . This defeat led to an increase of regular troops in that quarter ; which was the occasion of some complaint , as if the military operations of the ...
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... inhabi- tants who were settled south of the Ohio , and within the long acknowledged bounds of Virginia . It was estimated , that , before the United States commenced hostile operations against 44 [ 1792 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT .
... inhabi- tants who were settled south of the Ohio , and within the long acknowledged bounds of Virginia . It was estimated , that , before the United States commenced hostile operations against 44 [ 1792 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT .
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... hostile operations against the Indians , they had killed , wounded , or taken , one thousand and five hundred men , women and children , and had carried off two thousand horses , and other property to a large amount . The troops of the ...
... hostile operations against the Indians , they had killed , wounded , or taken , one thousand and five hundred men , women and children , and had carried off two thousand horses , and other property to a large amount . The troops of the ...
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... Hostile . Charges Against Secretary of the Treasury . Different Views of Jefferson and Hamilton . Insurrection in Pennsylvania - Washington Chosen President for a Second Term of four years . The Party Opposed to his Po- licy ...
... Hostile . Charges Against Secretary of the Treasury . Different Views of Jefferson and Hamilton . Insurrection in Pennsylvania - Washington Chosen President for a Second Term of four years . The Party Opposed to his Po- licy ...
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Page 452 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people: and answerable to the people.
Page 450 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a 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 progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and...
Page 16 - In tendering this ho.mage to the great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either.
Page 465 - ... that in case of a 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 progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 468 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 87 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 92 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to...
Page 17 - He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness...
Page 15 - On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Page 92 - This example has been recommended to the imitation of his successors, by both Houses of Congress, and by the voice of the Legislatures and the people, throughout the nation. On this subject it might become me better to be silent, or to speak with diffidence; but as something may be expected, the occasion...