American History Told by Contemporaries ...Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1901 |
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... officers ; and also unofficial accounts of what went on in official bodies . Of this character are the following : proceedings of the Congress of the Confederation ( Nos . 43 , 54 , 60 , 68 ) ; a county con- vention ( No. 55 ) ; Federal ...
... officers ; and also unofficial accounts of what went on in official bodies . Of this character are the following : proceedings of the Congress of the Confederation ( Nos . 43 , 54 , 60 , 68 ) ; a county con- vention ( No. 55 ) ; Federal ...
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... officers . Their regimentals are blue ; and they com- pose the whole of the regular army of Connecticut . What is further enacted betrays some of the peculiarities of the legis- lation received in the United States : " Be it further ...
... officers . Their regimentals are blue ; and they com- pose the whole of the regular army of Connecticut . What is further enacted betrays some of the peculiarities of the legis- lation received in the United States : " Be it further ...
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... officers of the American ships are deemed skilful and judicious ; from which cause , combined with the goodness of their ships and of their equipment , insurances upon their vessels are gen- erally made in Europe , upon the most ...
... officers of the American ships are deemed skilful and judicious ; from which cause , combined with the goodness of their ships and of their equipment , insurances upon their vessels are gen- erally made in Europe , upon the most ...
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... officer under Rochambeau during the latter part of the Revo- lution . His work , based on observations made during that period , displays an intelligent sympathy . This extract is from a letter addressed to Professor James Madison , the ...
... officer under Rochambeau during the latter part of the Revo- lution . His work , based on observations made during that period , displays an intelligent sympathy . This extract is from a letter addressed to Professor James Madison , the ...
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... officer , each minister of the people must be under the immediate dependence of the assemblies , so that his first care on attaining office , will be to court the popular favour for a new election . Among the English , employments ...
... officer , each minister of the people must be under the immediate dependence of the assemblies , so that his first care on attaining office , will be to court the popular favour for a new election . Among the English , employments ...
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Seite 480 - 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.
Seite 1 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 313 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Seite 331 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Seite 532 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Seite 207 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Seite 405 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Seite 313 - Confederation, were the less liable to be misconstrued) so as to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular enumeration which necessarily explains, and limits the general phrases, and so as to consolidate the states by degrees into one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable result of which would be, to transform the present republican system of the United States into an absolute, or at best, a mixed monarchy. That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable...
Seite 394 - Union are virtually dissolved ; that the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Seite 363 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.