History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries, Volume 7Lippincott, 1864 |
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... Administration submitted to Hamilton - His opinion communicated to Secretaries of War and State - Measures to be adopted - Suspension of treaty with France - Pickering favors an abrogation of treaties - Consults as to Louisiana ...
... Administration submitted to Hamilton - His opinion communicated to Secretaries of War and State - Measures to be adopted - Suspension of treaty with France - Pickering favors an abrogation of treaties - Consults as to Louisiana ...
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... administration to vigorous measures to acquire Louisiana - Resolutions by Ross , requiring Pre- sident to occupy Island of New Orleans and supplying the means— Doors of Senate closed - Jefferson's timidity - Debate in Senate- Yazoo ...
... administration to vigorous measures to acquire Louisiana - Resolutions by Ross , requiring Pre- sident to occupy Island of New Orleans and supplying the means— Doors of Senate closed - Jefferson's timidity - Debate in Senate- Yazoo ...
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... administration and a just tribute to Washington ; a boon to the Federalists , in a declared purpose to maintain " their system of neutrality and im- partiality ; " and a lure to the Democrats , in an avowal of his " personal esteem for ...
... administration and a just tribute to Washington ; a boon to the Federalists , in a declared purpose to maintain " their system of neutrality and im- partiality ; " and a lure to the Democrats , in an avowal of his " personal esteem for ...
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... administration , added to my interest as a citi- zen , make me extremely anxious that at this delicate crisis a course of conduct exactly proper may be adopted . I offer to your considera- tion , without what appears to me ceremony ...
... administration , added to my interest as a citi- zen , make me extremely anxious that at this delicate crisis a course of conduct exactly proper may be adopted . I offer to your considera- tion , without what appears to me ceremony ...
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... administration there is a doubt about a commis- sion or envoy extraordinary . I am very sorry for it , because I am sure it is an expedient measure . But perhaps France has said she * Ames observed- " Negotiations will be honorable , if ...
... administration there is a doubt about a commis- sion or envoy extraordinary . I am very sorry for it , because I am sure it is an expedient measure . But perhaps France has said she * Ames observed- " Negotiations will be honorable , if ...
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Page 261 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 470 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...
Page 155 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 470 - ... militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 668 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the admission of States lawfully arising within the limits of the United States, whether from a voluntary junction of Government and Territory or otherwise, with the consent of a number of voices in the National legislature less than the whole.
Page 470 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 593 - The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Page 267 - Constitution, but, on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto,— a power which, more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
Page 470 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them...
Page 469 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that, though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect and to violate would be oppression.