State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency: Exhibiting a Complete View of Our Foreign Relations Since that Time ...Thomas B. Wait, 1819 |
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... British depredations since commencement of 1800 President Jefferson's Inaugural Address , March 4,1801 321 Message opening Congress , December 8 , 1801 Documents respecting Barbary , December 8 , 1801 Message , December 22 , 1801 ...
... British depredations since commencement of 1800 President Jefferson's Inaugural Address , March 4,1801 321 Message opening Congress , December 8 , 1801 Documents respecting Barbary , December 8 , 1801 Message , December 22 , 1801 ...
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... British party , as France terms you ; and you may assure yourselves this will be done . He concluded with declarations of being perfectly disinterested ; and declared that his only motives for speaking thus freely were his friendship ...
... British party , as France terms you ; and you may assure yourselves this will be done . He concluded with declarations of being perfectly disinterested ; and declared that his only motives for speaking thus freely were his friendship ...
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... British cruisers and ships of war , out of American bottoms , and the Ame- rican government submitted to the practice . The pro- priety of submitting to it , depends entirely on the naked right of the captors , under the existing ...
... British cruisers and ships of war , out of American bottoms , and the Ame- rican government submitted to the practice . The pro- priety of submitting to it , depends entirely on the naked right of the captors , under the existing ...
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... British government issued a similar order , its injustice produced a ferment throughout America , indicating strong disposi- tions immediately to oppose its execution by force . The letter of Mr. Jefferson , the then Secretary of State ...
... British government issued a similar order , its injustice produced a ferment throughout America , indicating strong disposi- tions immediately to oppose its execution by force . The letter of Mr. Jefferson , the then Secretary of State ...
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... British cabinet of the 8th June . A large number of American vessels too were for a long time detained at Bordeaux , very much to the injury of the owners , without assigning a motive for such deten- tion , or putting it in the power of ...
... British cabinet of the 8th June . A large number of American vessels too were for a long time detained at Bordeaux , very much to the injury of the owners , without assigning a motive for such deten- tion , or putting it in the power of ...
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Página 322 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind; let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 322 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 322 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Página 323 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 321 - ... rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye ; when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking.
Página 131 - It shall likewise be lawful for the subjects and inhabitants aforesaid, to sail with the ships and merchandises aforementioned, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports, and havens...
Página 324 - ... encouragement of agriculture and of commerce as its handmaid: — the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason : — freedom of religion ; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the Habeas Corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
Página 324 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...
Página 324 - ... a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Página 323 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.