Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams: Edited from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury, Volume 1Subscribers [W. Van Norden, Printer], 1846 - 588 páginas Written by the Secretary of the Treasury under presidents George Washington and John Adams, this two-volume work gives a history of the first two presidential administrations of the United States. Wolcott offers many first-hand details taken from his experience as a cabinet secretary. |
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Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams ..., Volume 1 George Gibbs,Oliver Wolcott Visualização completa - 1846 |
Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams ..., Volume 1 George Gibbs,Oliver Wolcott Visualização completa - 1846 |
Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams ..., Volume 1 George Gibbs Visualização completa - 1846 |
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Página 404 - The situation in which I now stand for the last time in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced, and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may...
Página 152 - And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 305 - House, a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States, who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers, as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
Página 254 - I must decline, as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
Página 268 - It was all over, he said to me; a civil war is about to ravage our unhappy country. Four men, by their talents, their influence and their energy, may save it. But, debtors of English merchants, they will be deprived of their liberty if they take the smallest step.
Página 310 - That the Legislatures of the several States cannot of right pass any Act or Acts for interpreting, explaining or construing a National treaty, or any part or Clause of it; nor for restraining, limiting or in any manner impeding, retarding or counteracting the operation or execution of the same...
Página 266 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Página 416 - Republic, and communications have been received from its minister here which indicate the danger of a further disturbance of our commerce by its authority, and which are in other respects far from agreeable.
Página 478 - A minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two Republics. The first step of the French Government corresponded with that expectation. A few days before his arrival at Paris the French minister of foreign relations informed the American minister then resident at Paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave, and by his successor preparatory to his reception. These formalities they observed,...
Página 235 - Thus with some thousands of dollars the Republic could have decided on civil war or on peace! Thus the consciences of the pretended patriots of America have already their prices...
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A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest ..., Volume 7 Elroy McKendree Avery Visualização completa - 1910 |