Rise of the New West, 1819-1829Harper & brothers, 1906 - 366 pages |
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... view is that the west and east were always interdependent , and that the rising power of the western states in na- tional affairs was a wholesome and natural outcome of forces at work for half a century . The trans- formation of the ...
... view is that the west and east were always interdependent , and that the rising power of the western states in na- tional affairs was a wholesome and natural outcome of forces at work for half a century . The trans- formation of the ...
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... view the United States , even in this day of its youth , was more like an empire than a nation . Sectionalism had been fundamental in American history before the period which we have reached . The vast physiographic provinces of the ...
... view the United States , even in this day of its youth , was more like an empire than a nation . Sectionalism had been fundamental in American history before the period which we have reached . The vast physiographic provinces of the ...
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... Rev. , VI . , 742 ; cf. J. Q. Adams , in Richardson , Messages and Papers , II . , 297 ; J. Taylor , New Views , 261 ; [ Turn- bull ] , The Crisis , No. 2 . sented them . For the purposes of such a survey 8 [ 1815 RISE OF THE NEW WEST.
... Rev. , VI . , 742 ; cf. J. Q. Adams , in Richardson , Messages and Papers , II . , 297 ; J. Taylor , New Views , 261 ; [ Turn- bull ] , The Crisis , No. 2 . sented them . For the purposes of such a survey 8 [ 1815 RISE OF THE NEW WEST.
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... New England about twenty per cent . , nine - tenths of which were ' McMaster , Webster , 90 . ' Pitkin , Statistical View ( ed . of 1835 ) , 350 . 1 from Massachusetts . This is rather an under- estimate 12 [ 1820 RISE OF THE NEW WEST.
... New England about twenty per cent . , nine - tenths of which were ' McMaster , Webster , 90 . ' Pitkin , Statistical View ( ed . of 1835 ) , 350 . 1 from Massachusetts . This is rather an under- estimate 12 [ 1820 RISE OF THE NEW WEST.
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... views of each , as well as to prevent their united domination . In her constitutional convention of 1820 , Massachusetts refused to do away with the advantage which the Congregational church had in the matter of public support , and it ...
... views of each , as well as to prevent their united domination . In her constitutional convention of 1820 , Massachusetts refused to do away with the advantage which the Congregational church had in the matter of public support , and it ...
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Page 158 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 218 - 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 221 - I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 127 - This region, however, viewed as a frontier, may prove of infinite importance to the United States, inasmuch as it is calculated to serve as a barrier to prevent too great an extension of our population westward, and secure us against the machinations or incursions of an enemy that might otherwise be disposed to annoy us in that quarter.
Page 283 - An agreement between all the Parties represented at the Meeting, that each will guard, by its own means, against the establishment of any future European Colony within its Borders, may be found advisable.
Page 276 - While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority?
Page 209 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 213 - If there be any European power which cherishes other projects, which looks to a forcible enterprise for reducing the colonies to subjugation, on the behalf or in the name of Spain, or which meditates the acquisition of any part of them to itself, by cession or by conquest...
Page 321 - Randolph pointedly said that the bill "referred to manufactures of no sort or kind, but the manufacture of a President of the United States.
Page 215 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid, and accompany us in it. By acceding to her proposition, we detach her from the bands, bring her mighty weight into the scale of free government, and emancipate a continent at one stroke, which might otherwise linger long in doubt and difficulty.