Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - United States |
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... vessels into their ports , nor acknowledge the adjudications of our courts of admiralty to be legitimate , in cases of capture of British vessels : That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it ...
... vessels into their ports , nor acknowledge the adjudications of our courts of admiralty to be legitimate , in cases of capture of British vessels : That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it ...
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... vessel at this place , at New York , and at some Eastern port , to carry over the ratification of the treaty when agreed to . It met the general sense of the House , but was opposed by Dr. Lee on the ground of expense , which it would ...
... vessel at this place , at New York , and at some Eastern port , to carry over the ratification of the treaty when agreed to . It met the general sense of the House , but was opposed by Dr. Lee on the ground of expense , which it would ...
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... vessel being to sail for England , from this port ( Annapolis ) , the House directed the President to write to our ministers accordingly . January 14. Delegates from Connecticut having attended yesterday , and another from South ...
... vessel being to sail for England , from this port ( Annapolis ) , the House directed the President to write to our ministers accordingly . January 14. Delegates from Connecticut having attended yesterday , and another from South ...
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... vessels and their cargoes , employed merely in carrying on the commerce between nations . It was refused by England , and unwisely , in my opinion . For , in the case of a war with us , their superior commerce places infi- nitely more ...
... vessels and their cargoes , employed merely in carrying on the commerce between nations . It was refused by England , and unwisely , in my opinion . For , in the case of a war with us , their superior commerce places infi- nitely more ...
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... vessels and crews by the Barbary cruisers . I was very unwilling that we should ac- quiesce in the European humiliation of paying a tribute to those lawless pirates , and endeavoured to form an association of the powers subject to ...
... vessels and crews by the Barbary cruisers . I was very unwilling that we should ac- quiesce in the European humiliation of paying a tribute to those lawless pirates , and endeavoured to form an association of the powers subject to ...
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Page 6 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 4 - 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.
Page 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 9 - 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...
Page 7 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Page 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 8 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...
Page 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Page 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Page 7 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...