A Review of the Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams, Late President of the United States, and the Late Wm: Cunningham, Esq., Beginning in 1803, and Ending in 1812Cushing and Appleton, 1824 - 197 頁 |
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... Causes , pretended and real , for removing T. Pickering from office - The Mission to France in 1799 - The Par- don of Fries . SECTION IV . Elbridge Gerry - Mr . Adams's Minister to the French Re- public ; and a further account of the ...
... Causes , pretended and real , for removing T. Pickering from office - The Mission to France in 1799 - The Par- don of Fries . SECTION IV . Elbridge Gerry - Mr . Adams's Minister to the French Re- public ; and a further account of the ...
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... caused the libellers to be prosecuted . This was a duty which I owed not to my- self only , but to the great number of respectable men ... cause was committed to the jury . Eleven of these were agreed ; but one , a democrat , persevered in 6.
... caused the libellers to be prosecuted . This was a duty which I owed not to my- self only , but to the great number of respectable men ... cause was committed to the jury . Eleven of these were agreed ; but one , a democrat , persevered in 6.
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... cause , plausible indeed , and wrought up with no little inge- nuity , and wanting only truth and fact for its basis . He insinuates that tale - bearers have produced all the mischief : but he speaks guardedly- " there might not be ...
... cause , plausible indeed , and wrought up with no little inge- nuity , and wanting only truth and fact for its basis . He insinuates that tale - bearers have produced all the mischief : but he speaks guardedly- " there might not be ...
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... cause . This was possible ; and in the glow of our gratitude we cheer- fully believed it . But it was unnatural that a mo- narchical power , whose will was law , should desire to promote the establishment of free republican govern ...
... cause . This was possible ; and in the glow of our gratitude we cheer- fully believed it . But it was unnatural that a mo- narchical power , whose will was law , should desire to promote the establishment of free republican govern ...
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... cause of the United States . The loans of money by France to the United States were all repaid . The estimates of Mr. Fitz- simons were made at my request , and communicated to me by a letter which I have not yet found ; but I well ...
... cause of the United States . The loans of money by France to the United States were all repaid . The estimates of Mr. Fitz- simons were made at my request , and communicated to me by a letter which I have not yet found ; but I well ...
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第 189 頁 - 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.
第 195 頁 - Britain; and finally, we do assert, and declare these colonies to be free and independent states, and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
第 193 頁 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
第 192 頁 - He has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare is an undistinguished Destruction of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions of existence.
第 89 頁 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
第 192 頁 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
第 194 頁 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
第 187 頁 - What can be your reasons?" "Reason first - You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second - I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will do as well as I can.
第 193 頁 - A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [ ] people [who mean to *