A Review of the Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams, Late President of the United States, and the Late Wm: Cunningham, Esq., Beginning in 1803, and Ending in 1812Cushing and Appleton, 1824 - 197 pages |
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... government Republican ; that he had made his country very celebrated ; that he had made it independent ; that he had ... French and English emissaries , with Federal and Republican Libellers , had so com- pletely fulfilled the prophecy ...
... government Republican ; that he had made his country very celebrated ; that he had made it independent ; that he had ... French and English emissaries , with Federal and Republican Libellers , had so com- pletely fulfilled the prophecy ...
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... France , of hostility to England , of hatred " to commerce , of partiality ... France was not a blind devotion . The elucidation of this remark will appear ... government - and therefore were not rivals , but antagonists . In noticing ...
... France , of hostility to England , of hatred " to commerce , of partiality ... France was not a blind devotion . The elucidation of this remark will appear ... government - and therefore were not rivals , but antagonists . In noticing ...
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... French government , instead of Madrid , with the government of Spain . In the same manner , when , at a subsequent period , Mr. Jefferson proposed to Con- gress the purchase of Florida , the certain property of Spain , the negotiation ...
... French government , instead of Madrid , with the government of Spain . In the same manner , when , at a subsequent period , Mr. Jefferson proposed to Con- gress the purchase of Florida , the certain property of Spain , the negotiation ...
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... France accounts for the unsuc- cessful attempts of Mr. Livingston to obtain a cession of Orleans and part of the adjacent province of West Florida . At length , during the short and feeble administra- tion of the British government ...
... France accounts for the unsuc- cessful attempts of Mr. Livingston to obtain a cession of Orleans and part of the adjacent province of West Florida . At length , during the short and feeble administra- tion of the British government ...
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... government , to whom he made known the transfer , was perfectly satisfied ... France . Thus , to British policy and interest are the United States indebted for the ... French fleet and army , to take upon himself the administration of the ...
... government , to whom he made known the transfer , was perfectly satisfied ... France . Thus , to British policy and interest are the United States indebted for the ... French fleet and army , to take upon himself the administration of the ...
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Page 189 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 195 - Britain; and finally, we do assert, and declare these colonies to be free and independent states, and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Page 193 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 192 - He has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare is an undistinguished Destruction of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions of existence.
Page 89 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
Page 192 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 194 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 187 - What can be your reasons?" "Reason first - You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second - I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will do as well as I can.
Page 193 - A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [ ] people [who mean to *