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... English or savages , and to secure free scope for settlement . In advancing these ideas on a national scale , however , he was rendered helpless by the utter weakness of Congress , which even his influ- ence was powerless to overcome ...
... English or savages , and to secure free scope for settlement . In advancing these ideas on a national scale , however , he was rendered helpless by the utter weakness of Congress , which even his influ- ence was powerless to overcome ...
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... English attitude as to the western posts , commerce , and international relations . Washington brought it to the attention of our leading men , educating them on this as on other points , and showing , too , the stupidity of Great ...
... English attitude as to the western posts , commerce , and international relations . Washington brought it to the attention of our leading men , educating them on this as on other points , and showing , too , the stupidity of Great ...
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... English - speaking race spread over the world and carry successful government in its train . The personal empire of Napoleon had crumbled before he died an exile in St. Helena , but the work of Washington still endures . Just what that ...
... English - speaking race spread over the world and carry successful government in its train . The personal empire of Napoleon had crumbled before he died an exile in St. Helena , but the work of Washington still endures . Just what that ...
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... English - speaking race spread over the world and carry successful government in its train . The personal empire of Napoleon had crumbled before he died an exile in St. Helena , but the work of Washington still endures . Just what that ...
... English - speaking race spread over the world and carry successful government in its train . The personal empire of Napoleon had crumbled before he died an exile in St. Helena , but the work of Washington still endures . Just what that ...
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... English , which was over - modest , for he expressed himself extremely well . He also explained and de- fended his original propositions by trying to show that they were reasonable and usual ; but it was labor lost . Washington's letter ...
... English , which was over - modest , for he expressed himself extremely well . He also explained and de- fended his original propositions by trying to show that they were reasonable and usual ; but it was labor lost . Washington's letter ...
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Seite 26 - we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several States." Thus with unerring judgment he put his finger on the vital point in the whole
Seite 20 - Fourth. The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies ; to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity ; and in some instances to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the
Seite 137 - as it is essential to the due administration of the government that the boundaries fixed by the Constitution should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request.
Seite 39 - and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best disposition to render service to my country, in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Seite 26 - the need of a national government that should deal with the individual citizens of the whole country and not with the States. " To be fearful," he continued, " of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me the very climax of popular absurdity and madness.
Seite 119 - submit; and you, gentlemen, are at liberty to make these sentiments known as the grounds of my procedure. While I feel the most lively gratitude for the many instances of approbation from my country, I can no otherwise deserve it than by obeying the dictates of my conscience. With due respect, I am,
Seite 159 - shall have traced the origin and progress of the insurrection, let them determine whether it has not been fomented by combinations of men, who, careless of consequences, and disregarding the unerring truth, that those who rouse cannot always appease a civil convulsion, have disseminated, from an ignorance or perversion of facts, suspicions, jealousies, and accusations of the whole government.
Seite 118 - GENTLEMEN : In every act of my administration I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens. My system for the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal, local, and partial considerations ; to contemplate the United States as one great whole ; to confide that sudden impressions, and erroneous, would yield to candid
Seite 137 - should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request.
Seite 16 - ought to be no object with us. On the contrary, until we have a little time allowed to open and make easy the ways between the Atlantic States and the western territory, the obstructions had better remain." He was right in describing himself as " singular " in his views on this matter, which