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 practicability of retaining the title and control of such extensive domains in
the general government , and at the same time admitting the territories embracing
them into the federal Union , as co - equal with the original states , was seriously
...
The practicability of retaining the title and control of such extensive domains in
the general government , and at the same time admitting the territories embracing
them into the federal Union , as co - equal with the original states , was seriously
...
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I have seen , within a few months past , the “ last survivor of his hardy crew , still
living in a green old age , and exhibiting with pride a “ few original sketches of
some of the scenes of " that now memorable voyage . My constituents “ all feel
some ...
I have seen , within a few months past , the “ last survivor of his hardy crew , still
living in a green old age , and exhibiting with pride a “ few original sketches of
some of the scenes of " that now memorable voyage . My constituents “ all feel
some ...
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mercantile spirit has been rapidly gaining upon its old antagonist ; and the
establishment upon these shores of our own Republic , whose Union was the
immediate result of commercial necessities , whose Independence found its
original ...
mercantile spirit has been rapidly gaining upon its old antagonist ; and the
establishment upon these shores of our own Republic , whose Union was the
immediate result of commercial necessities , whose Independence found its
original ...
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In the previous June I had been gratified by a long interview with this enlightened
and sagacious Statesman ; his piercing and original remarks , his shrewd
criticisms of men and things , his erudition , his charming raillery , and , above all ,
his ...
In the previous June I had been gratified by a long interview with this enlightened
and sagacious Statesman ; his piercing and original remarks , his shrewd
criticisms of men and things , his erudition , his charming raillery , and , above all ,
his ...
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To return , however , to my original remarks ; it would therefore seem that wit is
rare among the Americans , in part because they have not yet had time to
exercise it ; they have not had leisure , like Falstaff , to be either witty themselves ,
or to be ...
To return , however , to my original remarks ; it would therefore seem that wit is
rare among the Americans , in part because they have not yet had time to
exercise it ; they have not had leisure , like Falstaff , to be either witty themselves ,
or to be ...
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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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