Addresses of the Successive Presidents to Both Houses of Congress, at the Opening of Each Session, with Their Answers: From the Commencement of the Present Government to January 1, 1805 : Together with the Inaugural Addresses During the Same Period, and the Farewell Address of George WashingtonSamuel Harrison Smith, 1805 - 228 páginas |
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... Europe ) give a reasonable hope , that the further execution of those powers may proceed with advantage and success . The se- cretary of the treasury has my directions to commu- 1 nicate such further particulars as may be requisite for ...
... Europe ) give a reasonable hope , that the further execution of those powers may proceed with advantage and success . The se- cretary of the treasury has my directions to commu- 1 nicate such further particulars as may be requisite for ...
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... Europe , and particu- larly the critical posture of the great maritime pow . ers , whilst it ought to make us more thankful for the general peace and security enjoyed by the United States , reminds us at the same time of the circum ...
... Europe , and particu- larly the critical posture of the great maritime pow . ers , whilst it ought to make us more thankful for the general peace and security enjoyed by the United States , reminds us at the same time of the circum ...
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... European powers will engage a due portion of our attention ; and we shall be ready to adopt any measures which a prudent cir- cumspection may suggest , for the preservation of the blessings of peace . The navigation and the fish- eries ...
... European powers will engage a due portion of our attention ; and we shall be ready to adopt any measures which a prudent cir- cumspection may suggest , for the preservation of the blessings of peace . The navigation and the fish- eries ...
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... Europe . It will be incumbent on us to consider in what mode our commerce and agriculture can be best relieved from an injurious dependence on the navigation of other nations , which the frequency of their wars renders a too precarious ...
... Europe . It will be incumbent on us to consider in what mode our commerce and agriculture can be best relieved from an injurious dependence on the navigation of other nations , which the frequency of their wars renders a too precarious ...
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... Europe had embraced those powers with whom the United States have the most extensive relation ; there was reason to appre- hend that our intercourse with them might be in- terrupted , and our disposition for peace , drawn in- to ...
... Europe had embraced those powers with whom the United States have the most extensive relation ; there was reason to appre- hend that our intercourse with them might be in- terrupted , and our disposition for peace , drawn in- to ...
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Página xxxi - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Página xviii - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
Página vii - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your National capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página xix - Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships, or enmities: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Página xvi - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Página xvii - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página iv - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Página v - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página vi - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...
Página xii - ... in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; 'but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.