A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Volume 5Appletony, 1900 |
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... Convention of seceding Masons . Masonry antireligious Antimasonic convention • Economic conditions in 1825 Growth of New York . Trade and commerce . City government Government of Philadelphia The introduction of gas Attempts to use ...
... Convention of seceding Masons . Masonry antireligious Antimasonic convention • Economic conditions in 1825 Growth of New York . Trade and commerce . City government Government of Philadelphia The introduction of gas Attempts to use ...
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... Convention or death " Shall Illinois be a slave State ? Laws against the negro The Colonization Society • • • Popular estimate of the free black Free negro in Massachusetts • • Convention in Albany attacks the free negro Negro plot in ...
... Convention or death " Shall Illinois be a slave State ? Laws against the negro The Colonization Society • • • Popular estimate of the free black Free negro in Massachusetts • • Convention in Albany attacks the free negro Negro plot in ...
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... Convention called Dr. Cooper's anti - tariff speech South Carolina on the tariff The Harrisburg Convention Revision of the tariff . The South resists · Tariff and anti - tariff petitions The tariff of 1828 • • • Anti - tariff agitation ...
... Convention called Dr. Cooper's anti - tariff speech South Carolina on the tariff The Harrisburg Convention Revision of the tariff . The South resists · Tariff and anti - tariff petitions The tariff of 1828 • • • Anti - tariff agitation ...
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... convention assembled . Property versus manhood suffrage Martin Van Buren Extension of suffrage . • Massachusetts Convention of 1820 Webster champions property qualification Abolition of religious qualification Suffrage agitation in ...
... convention assembled . Property versus manhood suffrage Martin Van Buren Extension of suffrage . • Massachusetts Convention of 1820 Webster champions property qualification Abolition of religious qualification Suffrage agitation in ...
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... Convention and the Executive The speech and the Cabinet The electoral system in practice The written message • The Convention and the President's term The third - term tradition • • Disposition to amend Constitution Proposed ...
... Convention and the Executive The speech and the Cabinet The electoral system in practice The written message • The Convention and the President's term The third - term tradition • • Disposition to amend Constitution Proposed ...
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Page 46 - 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 30 - Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the hundredth and thousandth generation...
Page 45 - 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 47 - 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 330 - 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 45 - 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 47 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 450 - European politician ; let us become real and true Americans, and place ourselves at the head of the American system.
Page 417 - He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man.
Page 257 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.