Formation of the Union, 1750-1829Longmans, 1892 - 278 pages |
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... million pounds was borne without serious difficulty . government . It was a time of vigorous intellectual life , the period of Goldsmith , Edmund Burke , and Dr. Johnson . It was English also a period of political development . The ...
... million pounds was borne without serious difficulty . government . It was a time of vigorous intellectual life , the period of Goldsmith , Edmund Burke , and Dr. Johnson . It was English also a period of political development . The ...
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... million pounds in taxes , and when the time came she was able to borrow hundred of millions : in all the colo- nies together , two million pounds in money was the utmost that could be raised in a single year by any system of taxes or ...
... million pounds in taxes , and when the time came she was able to borrow hundred of millions : in all the colo- nies together , two million pounds in money was the utmost that could be raised in a single year by any system of taxes or ...
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... millions of population , five hundred thousand of America . were negro slaves , carried no muskets , and caused constant fear of revolt . John Adams has said that more than a third part of the principal men in America were throughout ...
... millions of population , five hundred thousand of America . were negro slaves , carried no muskets , and caused constant fear of revolt . John Adams has said that more than a third part of the principal men in America were throughout ...
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... million dollars in continental paper currency , and sub- scriptions to national loans were opened both at home and abroad . This assumption of powers is the more remarkable since their exercise by England had caused the Revolu- Basis of ...
... million dollars in continental paper currency , and sub- scriptions to national loans were opened both at home and abroad . This assumption of powers is the more remarkable since their exercise by England had caused the Revolu- Basis of ...
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... million francs were thus secured ; in 1777 two millions . The arrival of Franklin in Paris in December , 1776 , increased the American influence , and negotiations were entered upon for a treaty . The English cabinet , understanding the ...
... million francs were thus secured ; in 1777 two millions . The arrival of Franklin in Paris in December , 1776 , increased the American influence , and negotiations were entered upon for a treaty . The English cabinet , understanding the ...
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Page 233 - Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional.
Page 184 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 176 - ... 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; economy in the public...
Page 215 - States, which have no common umpire, must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
Page 206 - If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably, if they can, violently, if they must.
Page 165 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 79 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies...
Page 86 - ... the king and parliament of Great Britain will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North America or the West Indies ; except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce...
Page 128 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 242 - ... we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.