The Statesmen of America in 1846In this book, first published in 1847, the English author Sarah Mytton Maury gives a personal and very positive account of her impressions of the United States upon arriving there in late 1845. Through marriage she gains access to many American statesmen of her day, and the book is dedicated to James Buchanan, later President of the United States. Maury portrays prominent senators, judges, officers, members of the clergy and Presidents John Adams and James K. Polk. Many of the descriptions are interspersed with extracts from speeches and letters by those portrayed. The book gives a great deal of attention to the early nineteenth-century dispute between Britain and the United States about territorial claims in the north-west, the so-called 'Oregon Question'. On this question as in other matters of contention or cultural differences between the two countries, Maury maintains a position of neutrality. |
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The agitation of the abolitionists can by no possibility produce good to any
portion of the union , and must , if persisted in , lead to incalculable mischief . The
institution of domestic slavery , as it existed at the adoption of the constitution of
the ...
The agitation of the abolitionists can by no possibility produce good to any
portion of the union , and must , if persisted in , lead to incalculable mischief . The
institution of domestic slavery , as it existed at the adoption of the constitution of
the ...
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I cannot , even now , persuade myself to relinquish it , without expressing , once
more , my deep conviction , that , since it respects nothing less than the union of
the states , it is of most vital and essential importance to the public happiness .
I cannot , even now , persuade myself to relinquish it , without expressing , once
more , my deep conviction , that , since it respects nothing less than the union of
the states , it is of most vital and essential importance to the public happiness .
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To respect the rights of the state governments is the inviolable duty of that of the
Union ; the government of every state will feel its own obligation to respect and
preserve the rights of the whole . The prejudices every where too commonly ...
To respect the rights of the state governments is the inviolable duty of that of the
Union ; the government of every state will feel its own obligation to respect and
preserve the rights of the whole . The prejudices every where too commonly ...
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I yield to none , 1 trust , in a deep and sincere attachment to our political
institutions , and the union of these states . I never breathed an opposite
sentiment ; but , on the contrary , I have ever considered them the great
instrument of preserving ...
I yield to none , 1 trust , in a deep and sincere attachment to our political
institutions , and the union of these states . I never breathed an opposite
sentiment ; but , on the contrary , I have ever considered them the great
instrument of preserving ...
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Pass this bill , tranquillize the country , restore confidence and affection in the
Union , and I am willing to go home to Ashland , and renounce public service I
have been accused of ambition . Yes , I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of
being ...
Pass this bill , tranquillize the country , restore confidence and affection in the
Union , and I am willing to go home to Ashland , and renounce public service I
have been accused of ambition . Yes , I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of
being ...
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| Titel | The Statesmen of America in 1846 Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive Band 360 von Travels in the Old South Iii |
| Autor/in | Sarah Mytton Maury |
| Verlag | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 |
| Original von | British Library |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Jan. 2016 |
| Länge | 548 Seiten |
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