PATRIOTS and STATESMEN
from WASHINGTON to LINCOLN

Revealed in the Letters, Addresses, State Papers
or other Writings of THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, GOUVER-
NEUR MORRIS, WASHINGTON IRVING, JAMES
MADISON JOSEPH STORY, JOHN MARSHALL, and
many others. Edited by

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, LL. D.
Professor of the Science of Government

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Contents

CHAPTER XIII-NEUTRALITY AND

PREPAREDNESS (1793-1800)

Introductory

1. George Washington:

The First Neutrality Proclamation (1793)

on the Policy of Neutrality

2. James Madison:

Criticism

(1793)

3. Thomas Jefferson:

Objection to an Interdict of Commerce

(1793)

4. President George Washington:

Need of Preparedness (1790, 1793, 1795)

5. The House of Representatives of the United

States:

Lessons of the Whisky Insurrection (1794)

6. Alexander Hamilton:

Preparedness in an Exigency (1794)

7. President George Washington:

"A Plan of Universal Education" (1795)

8. Susannah Rowson:

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* America, Commerce, and Freedom (1795)

9. John Quincy Adams:

Foreign Opinion of the United States (1796)

10. Royall Tyler:

*"Squeak the Fife and Beat the Drum"

(1796)

II. President George Washington:

Basis of American Foreign Policy (1796) 40

12. President George Washington:

The Farewell Advice of the Father of His

Country (1796)

13. President George Washington:

Our Citizens Should Be Americans First

(1797)

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15. John Quincy Adams:

The Sword and the Olive Branch (1798)

16. Peter Augustus Jay:

A Lively Preparedness Meeting (1798)

17. C. C. Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge

Gerry:

Refusing to Bribe a Foreign Government

(1798)

18. Benjamin Rush:

Education for Patriotism (1798)

19. Secretary Timothy Pickering:

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Defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts

(1798)

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20. Joseph Hopkinson:

*Hail Columbia (1798)

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21. Joel Barlow:

America to Lead in a Revision of the Laws

of Nations (1799)

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"Living Happily Like the Chinese" (1801)

1. Fisher Ames:

2. Samuel Adams:

The Political Storm Is Over (1801)

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