A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - Počet stran: 404 |
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... followed , on the 23rd November , by a lecture from my friend Mr. Hughes , on Kansas , also included in the present volume , as being a branch of the same subject . My own work leaves on one side many important aspects of American ...
... followed , on the 23rd November , by a lecture from my friend Mr. Hughes , on Kansas , also included in the present volume , as being a branch of the same subject . My own work leaves on one side many important aspects of American ...
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... followed by Tennessee , 1796. There are treaties with European powers , ( with England particularly , 1795 ) ; wars and treaties with Indian tribes . Public credit and prosperity re- vive and develope themselves ; the home debts are ...
... followed by Tennessee , 1796. There are treaties with European powers , ( with England particularly , 1795 ) ; wars and treaties with Indian tribes . Public credit and prosperity re- vive and develope themselves ; the home debts are ...
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... followed their onward course . The second census showed a popula- tion of 5,305,482 . The shipping of America , which in 1792 had been somewhat over 800,000 tons , had risen to 939,000 in 1800 ; whilst the war navy numbered forty - two ...
... followed their onward course . The second census showed a popula- tion of 5,305,482 . The shipping of America , which in 1792 had been somewhat over 800,000 tons , had risen to 939,000 in 1800 ; whilst the war navy numbered forty - two ...
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... , in all his subsequent communications with Congress , —a practice which has been followed ever since . The Vice - Presi- dent , during Jefferson's first term of office , was Aaron AND INAUGURAL ADDRESS . 69 Burr , a somewhat singular.
... , in all his subsequent communications with Congress , —a practice which has been followed ever since . The Vice - Presi- dent , during Jefferson's first term of office , was Aaron AND INAUGURAL ADDRESS . 69 Burr , a somewhat singular.
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... followed of late years , in effecting sweeping removals from office . His plea for doing so was that Adams had filled all offices exclusively with his own partizans , and that he found no subordinates whom he could trust . New brooms ...
... followed of late years , in effecting sweeping removals from office . His plea for doing so was that Adams had filled all offices exclusively with his own partizans , and that he found no subordinates whom he could trust . New brooms ...
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Strana 63 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Strana 28 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Strana 70 - ... of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
Strana 85 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Strana 140 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Strana 27 - States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Strana 120 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Strana 22 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Strana 13 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Strana 139 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...