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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Nor those other words of delusion and folly , Liberty first , and Union afterwards ;
but everywhere , spread all over in characters of living light , blazing on all its
ample folds , as they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind
under ...
Nor those other words of delusion and folly , Liberty first , and Union afterwards ;
but everywhere , spread all over in characters of living light , blazing on all its
ample folds , as they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind
under ...
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of civil and religious liberty , which they encountered the dangers of the ocean ,
the storms of heaven , the violence of savages , disease , exile , and famine , to
enjoy and to establish . — And we would leave here , also , for the generations ...
of civil and religious liberty , which they encountered the dangers of the ocean ,
the storms of heaven , the violence of savages , disease , exile , and famine , to
enjoy and to establish . — And we would leave here , also , for the generations ...
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Instinct with devotional and polemical fervour , American religion passed through
the successive stages from ecclesiastical domination to toleration , and from that
to divorce of Church and State , till the dominion of religious liberty has become ...
Instinct with devotional and polemical fervour , American religion passed through
the successive stages from ecclesiastical domination to toleration , and from that
to divorce of Church and State , till the dominion of religious liberty has become ...
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Death is not the greatest calamity ; there are others still more terrible to the free
and brave , and among them may be placed the loss of liberty and honour . There
are thousands of her brave sons who , if need be , are prepared cheerfully to lay
...
Death is not the greatest calamity ; there are others still more terrible to the free
and brave , and among them may be placed the loss of liberty and honour . There
are thousands of her brave sons who , if need be , are prepared cheerfully to lay
...
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Obscure that , by the downfall of liberty here , and all mankind are enshrouded in
a pall of universal darkness . To you , Mr. Chairman , belongs the high privilege
of transmitting , unimpaired , to posterity , the fair character and liberty of our ...
Obscure that , by the downfall of liberty here , and all mankind are enshrouded in
a pall of universal darkness . To you , Mr. Chairman , belongs the high privilege
of transmitting , unimpaired , to posterity , the fair character and liberty of our ...
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