Rise of the New West, 1819-1829, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1905 - 366 pages |
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... leadership of the free sisterhood of the New World under the terms of the Monroe Doctrine . 7 the leadership of Calhoun and Clay ; it spoke clearly NATIONALISM AND SECTIONALISM (1815-1830)
... leadership of the free sisterhood of the New World under the terms of the Monroe Doctrine . 7 the leadership of Calhoun and Clay ; it spoke clearly NATIONALISM AND SECTIONALISM (1815-1830)
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Frederick Jackson Turner. the leadership of Calhoun and Clay ; it spoke clearly in the decisions of Judge Marshall ; and in the lofty tone of condemnation with which the country as a whole reproached New England for the sectional- ism ...
Frederick Jackson Turner. the leadership of Calhoun and Clay ; it spoke clearly in the decisions of Judge Marshall ; and in the lofty tone of condemnation with which the country as a whole reproached New England for the sectional- ism ...
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... leaders , changing their attitude towards publie questions as the economic conditions of their sections changed , were obliged not only to adjust themselves to the interests of the sections which they represented , but also , if they ...
... leaders , changing their attitude towards publie questions as the economic conditions of their sections changed , were obliged not only to adjust themselves to the interests of the sections which they represented , but also , if they ...
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... leader of the south , changed his policy to a similar system of adjustments between the rival sections . John Quincy Adams , in 1819 , said of Calhoun : " he is above all sectional and factious prejudices more than any other statesman ...
... leader of the south , changed his policy to a similar system of adjustments between the rival sections . John Quincy Adams , in 1819 , said of Calhoun : " he is above all sectional and factious prejudices more than any other statesman ...
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... leaders who repre- 1 Adams , Memoirs , V. , 361 , VI . , 75 . 2 Am . Hist . Assoc . , Report 1899 , II . , 250 . 3 Am . Hist . Rev. , VI . , 742 ; cf. J. Q. Adams , in Richardson , Messages and Papers , II . , 297 ; J. Taylor , New ...
... leaders who repre- 1 Adams , Memoirs , V. , 361 , VI . , 75 . 2 Am . Hist . Assoc . , Report 1899 , II . , 250 . 3 Am . Hist . Rev. , VI . , 742 ; cf. J. Q. Adams , in Richardson , Messages and Papers , II . , 297 ; J. Taylor , New ...
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Page 3 - Europe, it was obvious there would spring up in her circle of nations a revived and invigorated spirit of trade, and a new activity in all the business and objects of civilized life. Hereafter, our commercial gains were to be earned only by success in a close and intense competition. Other nations would produce for themselves, and carry for themselves, and manufacture for themselves, to the full extent of their abilities. The crops of our plains would no longer sustain European armies, nor our ships...
Page 211 - 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.
Page 106 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 154 - 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 279 - 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 163 - Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States in this Union shall be excluded from the enjoyment of any of the privileges and immunities to which such citizen is entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 205 - 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 209 - 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 129 - the western limits of the republic should be drawn, and the statue of the fabled god Terminus should be raised upon its highest peak, never to be thrown down.
Page 197 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for the tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purposes of the United British and American nations.