A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties, Measures and Men, and Explanations of the Constitution, Divisions and Practical Workings of the Government, Together with Political Phrases, Familiar Names of Persons and Places, Noteworthy Sayings, Etc., Etc |
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... United States . As a result of Great Britain's action in these matters the United States claimed damages from her for " direct losses in the capture and destruction of a large number of vessels , with their cargoes , and in the heavy ...
... United States . As a result of Great Britain's action in these matters the United States claimed damages from her for " direct losses in the capture and destruction of a large number of vessels , with their cargoes , and in the heavy ...
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... United States offered to submit the question to arbitration , but would not agree to a proposition made by Great Britain to limit the dis- cussion to the damage done by the cruisers , since this would be an abandonment of our position ...
... United States offered to submit the question to arbitration , but would not agree to a proposition made by Great Britain to limit the dis- cussion to the damage done by the cruisers , since this would be an abandonment of our position ...
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... United States brig Washington . The Spanish Minister requested the delivery of the slaves to be taken to Cuba for trial . President Van Buren was desirous of granting this request as a matter of comity , but the Anti - Slavery Society ...
... United States brig Washington . The Spanish Minister requested the delivery of the slaves to be taken to Cuba for trial . President Van Buren was desirous of granting this request as a matter of comity , but the Anti - Slavery Society ...
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... United States , and Barbé - Marbois for France . The price agreed upon to be paid was $ 15,000,000 , of which $ 3,750,000 were claims of our citizens against France , which the United States agreed to assume . The people of the United ...
... United States , and Barbé - Marbois for France . The price agreed upon to be paid was $ 15,000,000 , of which $ 3,750,000 were claims of our citizens against France , which the United States agreed to assume . The people of the United ...
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... United States maintained that Spain had given to France the whole original extent of Louisiana , and that Florida west of the Perdids was a part of our purchase from France in 1803. Our govern- ment did not press this claim till 1810 ...
... United States maintained that Spain had given to France the whole original extent of Louisiana , and that Florida west of the Perdids was a part of our purchase from France in 1803. Our govern- ment did not press this claim till 1810 ...
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Page 207 - Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 206 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 204 - This government, the offspring of our own choice uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis...
Page 37 - ... proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the Acts of Congress, for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, " well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward.
Page 203 - Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty; in this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Page 207 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Page 206 - A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern : some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve...
Page 201 - ... me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel.
Page 210 - I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations : but if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good ; that they may now and then recur, to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism ; this hope will be a full recompense for the...
Page 303 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...