 | Andrew Jackson - 1837 - 448 pages
...territory, with an avowed design to treat immediatelyof its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject...a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate that we should still stand aloof, and maintain our present attitude,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 738 pages
...Government to observe in the contest pending between Mexico and Texas, he says that " It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject...a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate that we should stand aloof and maintain our present attitude,... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...elect. How artful is the assumed candor, and how odious the hypocrisy, of the following passage: ' It might subject us, however unjustly, to the imputation of ' seeking to establish the claim of our neighbours to a territory, ' with a view to its subsequent acquisition ourselves.' But we dismiss the... | |
 | William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 562 pages
...territory, with an avowed design to treat immediately of its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject...imputation of seeking to establish the claim of our neighbours to a territory, with a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore,... | |
 | William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 574 pages
...territory, with an avowed design to treat immediately of its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject...imputation of seeking to establish the claim of our neighbours to a territory, with a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore,... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 426 pages
...design to treat immediately of its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too-early movement, as it might subject us, however unjustly,...imputation of seeking to establish the claim of our neighbours to a territory, with a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...territory, with an avowed design to treat immediately of its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject...a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate that we should still stand aloof, and maintain our present attitude,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 968 pages
...territory, with an avowed design to treat immediately of its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject...a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate that we should still stand aloof, and maintain our present attitude,... | |
 | Presidents - 1847 - 976 pages
...immediately of its transfer to the United States. It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as il might subject us, however unjustly, to the imputation...a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate that we should still stand aloof, and maintain our present attitude,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 680 pages
...subject the United States, however unjustly, to the imputation of seeking to establish the claim of her neighbors to a territory, with a view to its subsequent acquisition by herself.' 'He therefore advised that no steps towards re- 1643. cognition should be taken ' until the... | |
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It becomes us to beware of a too early movement, as it might subject us, however unjustly, to the imputation of seeking to establish the claim of our neighbors to a territory with a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves. 
