pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addressesHarper & brothers, 1848 |
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Side 26
... desire you to be assured , that all my zeal will continue to second those further efforts for the public good , which are insured by the spirit in which you are entering on the present session . GEORGE WASHINGTON . REPLY TO THE ANSWER ...
... desire you to be assured , that all my zeal will continue to second those further efforts for the public good , which are insured by the spirit in which you are entering on the present session . GEORGE WASHINGTON . REPLY TO THE ANSWER ...
Side 27
... desire to procure tranquillity to the frontiers , to stop the further effusion of blood , to arrest the progress of expense , to forward the prevalent wish of the nation for peace , has led to strenuous efforts through various channels ...
... desire to procure tranquillity to the frontiers , to stop the further effusion of blood , to arrest the progress of expense , to forward the prevalent wish of the nation for peace , has led to strenuous efforts through various channels ...
Side 38
... desire to avoid insult , we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace , one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity , it must be known , that we are at all times ready for war . The documents , which will ...
... desire to avoid insult , we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace , one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity , it must be known , that we are at all times ready for war . The documents , which will ...
Side 52
... desire also to remove the discontents of the Six Nations , a settlement , meditated at Presque Isle , on Lake Erie , has been suspended ; and an agent is now endeavouring to rectify any misconception into which they may have fallen ...
... desire also to remove the discontents of the Six Nations , a settlement , meditated at Presque Isle , on Lake Erie , has been suspended ; and an agent is now endeavouring to rectify any misconception into which they may have fallen ...
Side 93
... desire of the court of Lisbon in the article of grade . I am aware that the conse- quences will not end here , and that this is not the only instance in which a like change may be press- ed . But , should it be necessary to yield ...
... desire of the court of Lisbon in the article of grade . I am aware that the conse- quences will not end here , and that this is not the only instance in which a like change may be press- ed . But , should it be necessary to yield ...
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Side 232 - 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...
Side 226 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Side 233 - 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.
Side 231 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury, from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected...
Side 229 - So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
Side 225 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Side 219 - The South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes in different ways to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength to which itself is unequally adapted.
Side 217 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation, which is yet a stranger to it.
Side 231 - 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...
Side 222 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the UNIOW by which they were 'procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens ? To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.