The History of the United States of America, Band 5Harper, 1851 |
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... that crimes may no longer appear less odious for being fashionable , nor the more secure from punishment for being popular . " CHAPTER XII . In a long life of political warfare M KEAN AND COBBETT . 171 M'Kean's Attack on Cobbett.
... that crimes may no longer appear less odious for being fashionable , nor the more secure from punishment for being popular . " CHAPTER XII . In a long life of political warfare M KEAN AND COBBETT . 171 M'Kean's Attack on Cobbett.
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... secure " the most important rights of neutrality on the seas . " But even Skipwith seemed to think that , owing to particular cir- cumstances , it would require some considerable time to dispose the French Legislature to make such ...
... secure " the most important rights of neutrality on the seas . " But even Skipwith seemed to think that , owing to particular cir- cumstances , it would require some considerable time to dispose the French Legislature to make such ...
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... secure peace . It is peace that we have uniformly and perse- veringly cultivated , and harmony between us and France may be restored at her option . But to send another XIII . minister , without more determinate assurances that he 278 ...
... secure peace . It is peace that we have uniformly and perse- veringly cultivated , and harmony between us and France may be restored at her option . But to send another XIII . minister , without more determinate assurances that he 278 ...
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... secure in their liberties and property , they will not forsake their occu- pations , and engage in the turmoil of public business , or expose themselves to the calumnies of their opponents , whose weapons are detraction . " But at such ...
... secure in their liberties and property , they will not forsake their occu- pations , and engage in the turmoil of public business , or expose themselves to the calumnies of their opponents , whose weapons are detraction . " But at such ...
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... secure a successor to Adams whose policy might more conform to theirs , and of acting , meanwhile , as far as might be , as a clog upon those measures which they did not approve ; while Adams , on his part , hesitated to widen the ...
... secure a successor to Adams whose policy might more conform to theirs , and of acting , meanwhile , as far as might be , as a clog upon those measures which they did not approve ; while Adams , on his part , hesitated to widen the ...
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Seite 217 - 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.
Seite 167 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Seite 478 - Mexican republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Seite 167 - But, to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall, on a fair and impartial trial, be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Seite 40 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations, for eight years, under the administration of a citizen, who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues, and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty,...
Seite 41 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the Constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it, until it shall be altered by the...
Seite 67 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France, and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence ; and regardless of national honor, character, and interest...
Seite 276 - States are parties, as 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,...
Seite 273 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 496 - In the salutary operation of this sagacious and benevolent restraint it is believed that the inhabitants of Indiana will at no very distant day find ample remuneration for a temporary privation of labor and of emigration.