History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, Volume 5Appleton, 1900 |
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... friends of the idea in the Senate , and a couple of weeks later Benton moved that the Committee on Foreign Relations be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation to enable the President to take and hold ...
... friends of the idea in the Senate , and a couple of weeks later Benton moved that the Committee on Foreign Relations be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation to enable the President to take and hold ...
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... friendship with all nations- entangling alliances with none . " * 66 When Jefferson spoke these words Europe was fast being pacified by Napoleon . But when he met Congress in Decem- ber , 1803 , peace had been broken , the Napoleonic ...
... friendship with all nations- entangling alliances with none . " * 66 When Jefferson spoke these words Europe was fast being pacified by Napoleon . But when he met Congress in Decem- ber , 1803 , peace had been broken , the Napoleonic ...
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... friends so alarmed the supporters of the Secretary of War that in December , as soon as possible after Congress assembled , a delegation of Northern and Southern members waited on Calhoun and invited him to become a candidate ...
... friends so alarmed the supporters of the Secretary of War that in December , as soon as possible after Congress assembled , a delegation of Northern and Southern members waited on Calhoun and invited him to become a candidate ...
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... friends , he was just the man for the place and the hour . His name was familiar to every voter in the land . His services to the public had been many and great ; yet he held no public office , and had not , as had Adams , Crawford ...
... friends , he was just the man for the place and the hour . His name was familiar to every voter in the land . His services to the public had been many and great ; yet he held no public office , and had not , as had Adams , Crawford ...
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... friends in every county in the State ought to come forward and say so . During the sum- mer of 1823 the people in Tennessee pledged the candidates for Congress to vote for Jackson just as the people in Ken- tucky pledged theirs to vote ...
... friends in every county in the State ought to come forward and say so . During the sum- mer of 1823 the people in Tennessee pledged the candidates for Congress to vote for Jackson just as the people in Ken- tucky pledged theirs to vote ...
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Page 42 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 25 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 41 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 25 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Page 326 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 41 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe; our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.
Page 43 - It is impossible that the Allied Powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference.
Page 25 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Page 25 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 392 - ... if the whole Legislature, an event to be deprecated, should attempt to overleap the bounds prescribed to them by the people, I, in administering the public justice of the country, will meet the united powers at my seat in this tribunal and, pointing to the constitution, will say to them, here is the limit of your authority, and hither shall you go, but no further.