 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1917 - 732 Seiten
...this insult (May 16, 1797) Adams said, "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." 151. THE XYZ CONTROVERSY (1797-1798) Still Adams could not... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...United States from the Government. . . . 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,... | |
 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of International Law - 1917 - 112 Seiten
...produce divisions fatal to our peace. 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,... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 Seiten
..."treated us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state " and that we must convince her and the world that "we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear." But still Adams decided, and both houses of Congress agreed, to try a fresh attempt... | |
 | John Marshall - 1926 - 600 Seiten
...fatal to our peace. Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince CHAP, iv 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,... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 Seiten
..."treated us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state" and that we must convince her and the world that "we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear." But still Adams decided, and both houses of Congress agreed, to try a fresh attempt... | |
 | Walter Wilson Jennings - 1928 - 580 Seiten
...May 16, 1797, and declared that conduct of that sort should be repelled in such a way as would ' ' 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,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1974 - 594 Seiten
...produce divisions fatal to our peace. 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,... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 Seiten
...produce divisions fatal to our peace. 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,... | |
 | Alice L. George - 2004 - 166 Seiten
...office, when the leadership of France refused to receive his chosen envoy, Adams urged Congress "to convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence."... | |
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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,... 
