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... cause of our common country ; as I have never left your side one moment , but when called from you on public duty ; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses , and not among the last to feel and acknowledge ...
... cause of our common country ; as I have never left your side one moment , but when called from you on public duty ; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses , and not among the last to feel and acknowledge ...
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... cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated , as directed in the resolutions which were published to you two days ago , and that they will adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render ample justice to you for your ...
... cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated , as directed in the resolutions which were published to you two days ago , and that they will adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render ample justice to you for your ...
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... caused by these events had scarcely died away , when intelligence of the signing of the preliminary treaty of peace reached the commander - in - chief . That intelligence came to him in despatches from Robert L. Livingston , the ...
... caused by these events had scarcely died away , when intelligence of the signing of the preliminary treaty of peace reached the commander - in - chief . That intelligence came to him in despatches from Robert L. Livingston , the ...
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... accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task , which , however , was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause , the sup- port of the supreme power of the Union , and.
... accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task , which , however , was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause , the sup- port of the supreme power of the Union , and.
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... cause for serenity of mind while taking a retrospect of his public and private life , it was George Washing ton . From his youth he had walked in the path of truth and recti- tude , and throughout his long public career of about thirty ...
... cause for serenity of mind while taking a retrospect of his public and private life , it was George Washing ton . From his youth he had walked in the path of truth and recti- tude , and throughout his long public career of about thirty ...
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Página 432 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Página 432 - As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Página 432 - So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 430 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Página 427 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me...
Página 432 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Página 432 - ... belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand...
Página 430 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another.
Página 96 - I must decline, as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
Página 428 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...