A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Volumen1authority of Congress, 1896 |
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... January next , I take the earliest opportunity of acquainting you that , considering how long and laborious this session has been and the reasons which I presume have produced this resolution , it does not appear to me expedient to ...
... January next , I take the earliest opportunity of acquainting you that , considering how long and laborious this session has been and the reasons which I presume have produced this resolution , it does not appear to me expedient to ...
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... as He alone knows to be best . Given under my hand , at the city of New York , the 3d day of October , A. D. 1789 . GO WASHINGTON , FIRST ANNUAL ADDRESS . UNITED STATES , January 8 , 64 Messages and Papers of the Presidents PROCLAMATION.
... as He alone knows to be best . Given under my hand , at the city of New York , the 3d day of October , A. D. 1789 . GO WASHINGTON , FIRST ANNUAL ADDRESS . UNITED STATES , January 8 , 64 Messages and Papers of the Presidents PROCLAMATION.
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... January 8 , 1790 . Fellow - Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives : I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity which now presents itself of congratulating you on the present favorable prospects of our public affairs ...
... January 8 , 1790 . Fellow - Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives : I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity which now presents itself of congratulating you on the present favorable prospects of our public affairs ...
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... JANUARY II 1790 . REPLY OF THE PRESIDENT . GENTLEMEN : I thank you for your address , and for the assurances which it contains of attention to the several matters suggested by me to your consideration . Relying on the continuance of ...
... JANUARY II 1790 . REPLY OF THE PRESIDENT . GENTLEMEN : I thank you for your address , and for the assurances which it contains of attention to the several matters suggested by me to your consideration . Relying on the continuance of ...
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... JANUARY 14 , 1790 . SPECIAL MESSAGES . UNITED STATES , January 11 , 1790 . Gentlemen of the Senate : Having advised with you upon the terms of a treaty to be offered to the Creek Nation of Indians , I think it proper you should be ...
... JANUARY 14 , 1790 . SPECIAL MESSAGES . UNITED STATES , January 11 , 1790 . Gentlemen of the Senate : Having advised with you upon the terms of a treaty to be offered to the Creek Nation of Indians , I think it proper you should be ...
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Página 225 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them.
Página 12 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted to, or surveyed for, any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall,...
Página 224 - 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.
Página 224 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 223 - 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.
Página 33 - States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Página 225 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Página 222 - ... strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it...
Página 52 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Página 4 - Representative Houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.