The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

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Taylor & Maury, 1854

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Contents

Opinion against the constitutionality of a National Bank
555
Opinion relative to the ten mile square for the federal government
561
Report on the policy of securing peculiar marks to manufacturers by law
563
Opinion relative to the demolition of Mr Carrolls house by Major LEnfant in laying out the Federal City
564
Opinion relative to certain lands on Lake Erie sold by the U States to Pennsylvania
567
Report on the negotiations with Spain to secure the navigation of the Mississippi and a port on the same
568
Report on the case of Charles Russell and others claiming certain lands
592
Report relative to negotiations at Madrid
593
Opinion on bill apportioning representation
594
Opinion relative to the recapture of slaves escaped to Florida
601
Report on the assays at the mint
604
Report on the petition of John Rodgers relative to certain lands on the northeast side of the Tennessee
605
Report relative to the boundaries of the lands between the Ohio and the lakes acquired by treaties from the Indians
608
Report on proceedings of Secretary of State to transfer to Europe the annual fund of 40000 appropriated to that department
610
Opinion on the question whether the United States have the right to renounce their treaties with France or hold them suspended until the government ...
611
Opinion relative to granting passports to American vessels
624
Opinion relative to the case of a British vessel captured by a French vessel purchased by French citizens and fitted out as a privateer in one of our ports
626
Opinion on the proposition of the Secretary of the Treasury to open
629
Report on the restrictions and privileges of the commerce of the Uni
636
Report on the mint
651

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Page 315 - 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 13 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Page 14 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and...
Page 337 - Who vice in all its pomp and power, can treat with just neglect; And piety, though clothed in rags, religiously respect. Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; And though he promise to his loss, he makes his promise good.
Page 15 - It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.
Page 316 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all, on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Page 316 - Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition offers, of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy.
Page 196 - This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Page 316 - But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war, but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it...
Page 26 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.