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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college education ; derived no advantages from extensive foreign travel ; no
thoughts nor words from the prompting of other gifted men ; he has never crossed
the Ocean . Simple and frank , no secrets , no mystery , exist in his presence ; all
...
college education ; derived no advantages from extensive foreign travel ; no
thoughts nor words from the prompting of other gifted men ; he has never crossed
the Ocean . Simple and frank , no secrets , no mystery , exist in his presence ; all
...
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A mode of thinking and a tone of sentiment have gone abroad which must
stimulate to future and more successful struggles . What could not be effected
with eight millions of people will be done The great cause will yielded ; no , never
, never !
A mode of thinking and a tone of sentiment have gone abroad which must
stimulate to future and more successful struggles . What could not be effected
with eight millions of people will be done The great cause will yielded ; no , never
, never !
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I have never , in the whole course of my life , influenced my people , either
individually or collectively , in their vote . You , who must know something of
human nature , need not be informed , that in all social outbreaks , particularly of
a riotous ...
I have never , in the whole course of my life , influenced my people , either
individually or collectively , in their vote . You , who must know something of
human nature , need not be informed , that in all social outbreaks , particularly of
a riotous ...
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I have never known any man who possessed this inexplicable and mysterious
element of power in so eminent a degree , and who used it so habitually and so
unconsciously . None ever regarded him with indifference ; by some he is hated ;
by ...
I have never known any man who possessed this inexplicable and mysterious
element of power in so eminent a degree , and who used it so habitually and so
unconsciously . None ever regarded him with indifference ; by some he is hated ;
by ...
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He never received of the charity of any man ; he never borrowed of any man
without repaying ; he never had more than a few dollars at a time ; he never had
a patron , in the Church or out of it ; and it is he who has the honour to address
you ...
He never received of the charity of any man ; he never borrowed of any man
without repaying ; he never had more than a few dollars at a time ; he never had
a patron , in the Church or out of it ; and it is he who has the honour to address
you ...
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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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