A New American Biographical Dictionary; Or, Remembrancer of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and Statesmen of AmericaT.J. Rogers, 1823 - 352 páginas |
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... our fellow citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY . 19.
... our fellow citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY . 19.
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... friends . We , therefore , the representatives of the United States of America , in general congress assembled , appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world , for the rectitude of our intentions , do , in the name and by the authority ...
... friends . We , therefore , the representatives of the United States of America , in general congress assembled , appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world , for the rectitude of our intentions , do , in the name and by the authority ...
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... Friends and Countrymen , THREE years have now passed away , since the commencement of the present war . A war without parallel in the annals of mankind . It hath dis- played a spectacle , the most solemn that can possi- 24 AMERICAN ...
... Friends and Countrymen , THREE years have now passed away , since the commencement of the present war . A war without parallel in the annals of mankind . It hath dis- played a spectacle , the most solemn that can possi- 24 AMERICAN ...
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... friends , perhaps , dreadful idea ! of their parents or children . Nor was this the out- rageous barbarity of an individual , but a system of deliberate malice , stamped with the concurrence of the British legislature , and sanctioned ...
... friends , perhaps , dreadful idea ! of their parents or children . Nor was this the out- rageous barbarity of an individual , but a system of deliberate malice , stamped with the concurrence of the British legislature , and sanctioned ...
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... friends with folly . But our dependance was not upon man . It was upon Him , who hath commanded us to love our enemies and to render good for evil . And what can be more wonderful than the manner of our deliverance ? How often have we ...
... friends with folly . But our dependance was not upon man . It was upon Him , who hath commanded us to love our enemies and to render good for evil . And what can be more wonderful than the manner of our deliverance ? How often have we ...
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Página 344 - 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 it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend...
Página 345 - There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Página 331 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; 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...
Página 344 - ... with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying, by gentle means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to...
Página 343 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
Página 332 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página 339 - The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
Página 337 - 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.
Página 330 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Página 340 - ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.