Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. 1888Justin Winsor Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 |
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... force had been introduced into the old Congress July 14 , 1788 , and had hung suspended there for two months on the question of a capital city . Philadelphia , Lancaster , Pa . , New York city , and Wilmington , Del . , were rejected ...
... force had been introduced into the old Congress July 14 , 1788 , and had hung suspended there for two months on the question of a capital city . Philadelphia , Lancaster , Pa . , New York city , and Wilmington , Del . , were rejected ...
Page 270
... force , few political actions in our history have been wider in their effects . They introduced the notion of a " compact " of some sort as the basis of the Constitution , a notion derived , perhaps , from that of the Social Compact ...
... force , few political actions in our history have been wider in their effects . They introduced the notion of a " compact " of some sort as the basis of the Constitution , a notion derived , perhaps , from that of the Social Compact ...
Page 273
... force to migration , so that settlement moved westward rapidly . With the increase of settlement , the Mississippi began to assume its natural func- tion in the national development . Flowing from north to south across the great central ...
... force to migration , so that settlement moved westward rapidly . With the increase of settlement , the Mississippi began to assume its natural func- tion in the national development . Flowing from north to south across the great central ...
Page 274
... force of gunboats , which proved useless in practice ; but it rejected the President's second proposal , to confine coåst defence to the use of cannon on travelling carriages , to be dragged from point to point by the militia . Instead ...
... force of gunboats , which proved useless in practice ; but it rejected the President's second proposal , to confine coåst defence to the use of cannon on travelling carriages , to be dragged from point to point by the militia . Instead ...
Page 275
... force against Great Britain , and intensified the ill - feeling between the two countries . This was especially the case in the United States . When the new Con- gress met in November , 1811 , the administration majority was overwhelm ...
... force against Great Britain , and intensified the ill - feeling between the two countries . This was especially the case in the United States . When the new Con- gress met in November , 1811 , the administration majority was overwhelm ...
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Page 473 - 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 270 - True, there must ; but does that prove it is either party ? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress, or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs.
Page 502 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 474 - According to these bases, you were right to assert that whatever plenipotentiary the Government of the United States might send to France to put an end to the existing differences between the two countries would be undoubtedly received with the respect due to the representative of a free, independent, and powerful nation.
Page 555 - Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Page 470 - As, therefore, it is perfectly clear to my understanding that the assent of the House of Representatives is not necessary to the validity of a treaty; as the treaty with Great Britain exhibits in itself all the objects requiring legislative provision, and on these the papers called for can throw no light, and as it is essential to the due administration of the Government that the boundaries fixed by the Constitution between the different departments should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution...
Page 426 - Barbarities of the Enemy, exposed in a REPORT of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, appointed to enquire into the spirit and manner in which the war has been waged by the enemy, and the DOCUMENTS — accompanying said report.
Page 340 - A Letter from the Hon. Timothy Pickering, a Senator of the United States from the State of Massachusetts, Exhibiting to His Constituents a Vie.w of the Imminent Danger of an Unnecessary and Ruinous War. Addressed to His Excellency James Sullivan, Governor of the Said State.
Page 521 - An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council, and an Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain towards the Neutral Commerce of America.
Page 473 - Directory is disposed to treat with that one of the three, whose opinions, presumed to be more impartial, promise, in the course of the explanations, more of that reciprocal confidence, which is indispensable.