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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... appointed ambition and mortified vanity , than Mr. Ad- ams ; for in no man , I believe , were those passions ever more highly sublimated . At the first organization of the general government , he complained ( so it has been , and I ...
... appointed ambition and mortified vanity , than Mr. Ad- ams ; for in no man , I believe , were those passions ever more highly sublimated . At the first organization of the general government , he complained ( so it has been , and I ...
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... appointed to run the boundary line between the territory of the United States and Florida , from the river Mississippi to the Atlantic ocean . Andrew Ellicott was the commissioner on the part of the United States ; and , with the ...
... appointed to run the boundary line between the territory of the United States and Florida , from the river Mississippi to the Atlantic ocean . Andrew Ellicott was the commissioner on the part of the United States ; and , with the ...
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... appointed Mr. Jay , the able and principal negotiator of the treaty of peace of 1783 , envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- tiary , to negotiate and by treaty to settle the new con- troversies , and those which had arisen from ...
... appointed Mr. Jay , the able and principal negotiator of the treaty of peace of 1783 , envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- tiary , to negotiate and by treaty to settle the new con- troversies , and those which had arisen from ...
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... appointed Minister Resident of the United States to the States of Holland . His father places this first step in diplomacy to the account of Washington's gratitude for the son's rescu- * Letter to Cunningham , No. XLIII , dated July 31 ...
... appointed Minister Resident of the United States to the States of Holland . His father places this first step in diplomacy to the account of Washington's gratitude for the son's rescu- * Letter to Cunningham , No. XLIII , dated July 31 ...
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... appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of London ; then one of the Commissioners for negotiating a peace with Great- Britain ; and , in the last place , Secretary of State . There is but one more step in the ladder of ambition ...
... appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of London ; then one of the Commissioners for negotiating a peace with Great- Britain ; and , in the last place , Secretary of State . There is but one more step in the ladder of ambition ...
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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 *