English and French Neutrality and the Anglo-French Alliance: In Their Relations to the United States & Russia, Including an Account of the Leading Policy of France and of England for the Last Two Hundred Years--the Origin and Aims of the Alliance--the Meaning of the Crimean War--and the Reason of the Hostile Attitude of These Two Powers Towards the United States, and of the Movement on Mexico ; with a Statement of the General Resources--the Army and Navy of England and France--Russia and America--showing the Present Strength and Probable Future of These Four PowersC. F. Vent & Company, 1864 - 576 pages |
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... Position of Russia ........ .192 CHAPTER XIX . Russia Easily Governed from one Centre ....... ... 201 CHAPTER XX . Russia Has Few Vulnerable Points ......... ...... ..... 209 CHAPTER XXI . Russia Controlled by one Race - This Gives Her ...
... Position of Russia ........ .192 CHAPTER XIX . Russia Easily Governed from one Centre ....... ... 201 CHAPTER XX . Russia Has Few Vulnerable Points ......... ...... ..... 209 CHAPTER XXI . Russia Controlled by one Race - This Gives Her ...
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... position and privileges of proper belligerents , they took from them the odium , and so far as they could , the guilt of rebellion , and relieved their corsair cruisers from the name and fate of pirates . We were informetl that not one ...
... position and privileges of proper belligerents , they took from them the odium , and so far as they could , the guilt of rebellion , and relieved their corsair cruisers from the name and fate of pirates . We were informetl that not one ...
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... position will override all this . If the Anglo - French Alliance continues , and these powers pursue the policy with which it was formed , they will remain in real antagonism to Russia and America , and the struggle for the mastery will ...
... position will override all this . If the Anglo - French Alliance continues , and these powers pursue the policy with which it was formed , they will remain in real antagonism to Russia and America , and the struggle for the mastery will ...
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... position of the young Macedonian , dying as he did almost in youth , in his thirty - third year . It was the establishment of a mighty empire , with an Eastern capital as its center , to be enriched by the control of the commerce of ...
... position of the young Macedonian , dying as he did almost in youth , in his thirty - third year . It was the establishment of a mighty empire , with an Eastern capital as its center , to be enriched by the control of the commerce of ...
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... position between Europe and Asia , and between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea , were understood and wisely used . She was , in all senses , the mistress of the East and West , with the single exception of the spiritual power of ...
... position between Europe and Asia , and between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea , were understood and wisely used . She was , in all senses , the mistress of the East and West , with the single exception of the spiritual power of ...
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alliance Allies American armor army attack batteries Black Sea Britain British broadside Caspian character Christian civilization colonies commerce Constantinople cottages Crimean Crimean war Czar declared defense despotism dominion East Gulf Eastern Emperor empire England English European fact feet fifteen-inch fleet force formidable Fourth Paddle-wheel Fourth Schooner Fourth Screw France France and England French frigate future Greek Church guns hostility hundred idea inches India influence iron Iron-clad laborers land Latin Louis Napoleon manufactures ment Mexico military millions Mississippi Squadron Monitor Moscow naval navigable navy North Atlantic Squadron Papacy Papal Church peasants population possession Potomac Flotilla present progress Protestant race regard religious rivers Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church Russia and America Russian Church schools Sebastopol Second Screw ships shot South spirit strength territory Third thousand tion trade tuns Turkey turret United vast vessels wealth West Gulf Squadron western Europe whole
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Page 541 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 540 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 540 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparations for our defense.
Page 541 - We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers, to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 63 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. 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.
Page 101 - deeply regret any dispute that might lead to con"flict between two of the great Powers of Europe; "but when we reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive "privileges in a spot near which the heavenly host "proclaimed peace on earth and goodwill towards "men — when we see rival Churches contending for "mastery in the very place where Christ died for "mankind — the thought of such a spectacle is "melancholy indeed.
Page 50 - We exclude them from every situation of trust and emolument ; we confine them to the lowest offices, with scarcely a bare subsistence ; and even these are left in their hands from necessity, because Europeans are utterly incapable of filling them. We treat them as an inferior race of beings.
Page 106 - Jerusalem with triumph ; and on Wednesday, the 22nd of the same month, the Latin patriarch, with joy and with a great ceremony, replaced the glittering star in the sanctuary of Bethlehem, and at the same time the key of the great door of the church, together with the keys of the sacred manger, was handed over to the Latins,1...
Page 64 - ... from -external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel.
Page 50 - They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds revolution; but the village community remains 'the same This union of the village communities, each one forming a separate little state in itself, has, I conceive, contributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the people of India, through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and to the enjoyment of a great portion...