Life of George Washington, Band 5G.P. Putnam, 1859 |
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... declared President - Washington's Letter to Knox on the Eve of his Retirement - the spurious Letters - his Farewell Dinner -John Adams takes the Oath of Office - Greetings of Washington at the close of the Ceremony , 260 • CHAPTER XXXI ...
... declared President - Washington's Letter to Knox on the Eve of his Retirement - the spurious Letters - his Farewell Dinner -John Adams takes the Oath of Office - Greetings of Washington at the close of the Ceremony , 260 • CHAPTER XXXI ...
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... declaration of inde- pendence and of his inauguration : if four times , the anniversary of the treaty of alliance with France and that of the definitive treaty with Great Britain to be added . The President on levee days to give ...
... declaration of inde- pendence and of his inauguration : if four times , the anniversary of the treaty of alliance with France and that of the definitive treaty with Great Britain to be added . The President on levee days to give ...
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... declaring their opinion of the high impor- tance to the honor and prosperity of the United States , that an adequate provision should be made for the sup- port of public credit ; and instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare ...
... declaring their opinion of the high impor- tance to the honor and prosperity of the United States , that an adequate provision should be made for the sup- port of public credit ; and instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare ...
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... declared and justified . Its merits and defects are plainly stated , not without sophistry and prejudice , but without management . There is no intrigue , no caucusing , little of clanning together , little asperity in debate , or ...
... declared and justified . Its merits and defects are plainly stated , not without sophistry and prejudice , but without management . There is no intrigue , no caucusing , little of clanning together , little asperity in debate , or ...
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Washington Irving. had been avowed at an early date in his draft of the Declaration of Independence , and subsequently in the successful war which he made upon the old cavalier traditions of his native State ; its laws of entails and ...
Washington Irving. had been avowed at an early date in his draft of the Declaration of Independence , and subsequently in the successful war which he made upon the old cavalier traditions of his native State ; its laws of entails and ...
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Seite 338 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government : but, the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, pre-supposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Seite 339 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp, for themselves, the reins of government ; destroying, afterwards, the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Seite 333 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Seite 334 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of 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.
Seite 349 - How far, in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world. To myself, the assurance of my own conscience is, that I have at least believed myself to be guided by them. In relation to the still subsisting war in Europe my proclamation of the 22d of April 1793 is the index to my plan.
Seite 333 - But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, — it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective...
Seite 340 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is indeed little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Seite 339 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Seite 337 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations: they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Seite 335 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.