 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...mould our opinions on those of Europe ? Let us break these commercial and political fetters ; LET os NO LONGER WATCH THE NOD OF ANY EUROPEAN POLITICIAN...place ourselves at the head of the American system. * * * There can be no doubt that Spanish America, whatever the form ef government established in its... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 656 pages
...next moment in Paternoster-row purchasing literature for this country. Our institutions, said Mr. C., now make us free ; but how long shall we continue...place ourselves at the head of the American system." Even two years earlier, in a speech of the 24th of March, 1818, he exhorted us to make the lead in... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 646 pages
...institutions, said Mr. C., now make us free ; but how long shall we continue so, if we mould our opinions 011 those of Europe ? Let us break these commercial and...place ourselves at the head of the American system." Even two years earlier, in a speech of the 24th of March, 1818, he exhorted us to make the lead in... | |
 | 1854 - 572 pages
...of Europe ? Let us break these commercial and political fetters ; LET us NO LONGER WATCH THE NOD OP ANY EUROPEAN POLITICIAN ; let us become real and true...place ourselves at the head of the American system. * ' * * There can be no doubt that Spanish America, whatever the form of Government established in... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 416 pages
...their political capabilities, too, he entertained glowing expectations. " Some gentlemen," he said, " had intimated that the people of the South were unfit for freedom. In some particulars, he ventured to say, the people of South America were in advance of us. Grenada,... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1897 - 688 pages
...South America. Our institutions now make us free ; ' but how long shall we continue so, if we mold our opinions on those of Europe ? Let us break these...place ourselves at the head of the American system. Gentleman all said, they were all anxious to see the independence of the South established. If sympathy... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 pages
...to create a system of which we shall be the centre and in which all South America will act with us. Let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician....place ourselves at the head of the American System.' " But this American System is not confined to the Secretary of State. The President is a proselyte.... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 614 pages
...to create a system of which we shall be the centre and in which all South America will act with us. Let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician....place ourselves at the head of the American System.' " But this American System is not confined to the Secretary of State. The President is a proselyte.... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 pages
...to create a system of which we shall be the centre and in which all South America will act with us. Let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician....place ourselves at the head of the American System.' " But this American System is not confined to the Secretary of State. The President is a proselyte.... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 420 pages
...despotism of the Old World and should act on its own responsibility. " We look too much abroad," said he. " Let us break these commercial and political fetters;...place ourselves at the head of the American system." 1 Clay was steadily gaining support in his efforts to force the hands of the administration: his resolutions... | |
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Our institutions now make us free ; but how long shall we continue so if we mould our opinions on those of Europe ? Let us break these commercial and political fetters ; let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician; let us become real and... 
