The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Band 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
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... France . Embarks at Boston . Meet- ing with Dr. Franklin in Paris . State of Society there . They endeav- our to make commercial treaties . Their partial success and its causes . Publishes his notes on Virginia .. Theory of the ...
... France . Embarks at Boston . Meet- ing with Dr. Franklin in Paris . State of Society there . They endeav- our to make commercial treaties . Their partial success and its causes . Publishes his notes on Virginia .. Theory of the ...
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... France . Meeting of the Notables . Shay's Insur- rection in Massachusetts . Newspapers . Thoughts on Government . Navigation of the Mississippi . Visits the South of France . His style of travelling . Nismes . Secret overtures from a ...
... France . Meeting of the Notables . Shay's Insur- rection in Massachusetts . Newspapers . Thoughts on Government . Navigation of the Mississippi . Visits the South of France . His style of travelling . Nismes . Secret overtures from a ...
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... France . French West Indies . Indian territorial rights . The surrender of fugitives from justice . Deputies from St. Domingo . CHAPTER XV . 1791-1792 . 333 Third session of the first Congress . The commerce of the United States with France ...
... France . French West Indies . Indian territorial rights . The surrender of fugitives from justice . Deputies from St. Domingo . CHAPTER XV . 1791-1792 . 333 Third session of the first Congress . The commerce of the United States with France ...
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... France under the Treaty of Commerce . Mr. Jefferson's correspondence with the French Minis- ter . Genet's intemperate and offensive course - his recall - the popu- lar feeling in his favour . CHAPTER XVIII . 1793 . 411 State of parties ...
... France under the Treaty of Commerce . Mr. Jefferson's correspondence with the French Minis- ter . Genet's intemperate and offensive course - his recall - the popu- lar feeling in his favour . CHAPTER XVIII . 1793 . 411 State of parties ...
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... manner most impressive , and strengthed by a dash of biting criticism , where provocation made it seasonable . " - 1 Jeff . Mem . p . 33 . commissioner or envoy to France , with Dr. Franklin and THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON . 91.
... manner most impressive , and strengthed by a dash of biting criticism , where provocation made it seasonable . " - 1 Jeff . Mem . p . 33 . commissioner or envoy to France , with Dr. Franklin and THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON . 91.
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afterwards American appointed articles of confederation Assembly authority bill Britain British character Citizen Genet citizens civil Colonel colonies commerce committee Congress considered constitution Convention course court creditors Dabney Carr danger debt declare duty effect enemies England executive favour federal feelings foreign France French French revolution friends Genet give Gouverneur Morris Governor Hamilton honour House House of Burgesses Indians interest Jefferson lands legislative legislature letter liberty Lord Dunmore Madison measures ment mind minister Monticello nation neutrality never object occasion opinion paper Paris party peace persons Peyton Randolph political popular port present president principles proposed proposition purpose question received regarded remarks republican resolution Richard Henry Lee says seems sentiments slaves society South Carolina spirit supposed thing Thomas Jefferson thought tion tobacco trade treasury treaty United vessels views Virginia vote Washington whole Williamsburg wish
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Seite 539 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 540 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Seite 540 - 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.
Seite 540 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 31 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Seite 86 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 78 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Seite 541 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Seite 218 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Seite 540 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. 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 be free.