Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Band 1F. Carr, and Company, 1820 |
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... count of which , distinguishing the white inhabitants , shall be trien- nially taken and transmitted to the Assembly of the United States . ' 6 Mr. Chase moved that the quotas should be fixed , not by the number of inhabitants of every ...
... count of which , distinguishing the white inhabitants , shall be trien- nially taken and transmitted to the Assembly of the United States . ' 6 Mr. Chase moved that the quotas should be fixed , not by the number of inhabitants of every ...
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... Count de Vergennes , it was thought better to leave to legislative regulation , on both sides , such modifi- cations of our commercial intercourse , as would voluntarily flow from amicable dispositions . Without urging , we sounded the ...
... Count de Vergennes , it was thought better to leave to legislative regulation , on both sides , such modifi- cations of our commercial intercourse , as would voluntarily flow from amicable dispositions . Without urging , we sounded the ...
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... Count De Vergennes had the repu- tation , with the diplomatic corps , of being wary and slippery in his diplomatic intercourse ; and so he might be , with those whom he knew to be slippery , and double faced themselves . As he saw that ...
... Count De Vergennes had the repu- tation , with the diplomatic corps , of being wary and slippery in his diplomatic intercourse ; and so he might be , with those whom he knew to be slippery , and double faced themselves . As he saw that ...
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... Count de Vergennes on the subject . I had before taken occasion to inform him of what we were proposing , and , therefore , did not think it proper to insinuate any doubt of the fair conduct of his government ; but , stating our ...
... Count de Vergennes on the subject . I had before taken occasion to inform him of what we were proposing , and , therefore , did not think it proper to insinuate any doubt of the fair conduct of his government ; but , stating our ...
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... counts could not bear examination ; and it was said , and believed , that he asked of the King , to send four members to the Bastile , of whom the Marquis de la Fayette was one , to banish twenty others , and two of his Ministers . The ...
... counts could not bear examination ; and it was said , and believed , that he asked of the King , to send four members to the Bastile , of whom the Marquis de la Fayette was one , to banish twenty others , and two of his Ministers . The ...
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Seite 19 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...
Seite 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Seite 16 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Seite 116 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Seite 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Seite 430 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Seite 19 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 40 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Seite 429 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance...
Seite 92 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.