The Olive Branch: Or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic. A Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and HarmonyW. Slade, 1816 - 468 էջ |
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... circumstances may require : for as it is not to be imagined , that those who are engaged in great affairs , should always be pursuing false or mis- Jaken measures , so neither is it probable that their conduct can at all times be exempt ...
... circumstances may require : for as it is not to be imagined , that those who are engaged in great affairs , should always be pursuing false or mis- Jaken measures , so neither is it probable that their conduct can at all times be exempt ...
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... circumstances under which I have written render it probable that I may have fal- len into errors I shall therefore regard it as a most particular favor , if any gen- tleman who discovers them , however minute , will frankly point them ...
... circumstances under which I have written render it probable that I may have fal- len into errors I shall therefore regard it as a most particular favor , if any gen- tleman who discovers them , however minute , will frankly point them ...
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... circumstances I have stated , should be free from them . But the reader may rest assured that whatever they may be , they have not resulted from design . They are the offspring of slenderness of talents - deficiency of materials ...
... circumstances I have stated , should be free from them . But the reader may rest assured that whatever they may be , they have not resulted from design . They are the offspring of slenderness of talents - deficiency of materials ...
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... circumstances , congress was convened on the 19th of Sep- tember , nearly two months earlier than the period fixed by law , in order to make provision for such an extraordinary emergency . The state of the nation was fully detailed to ...
... circumstances , congress was convened on the 19th of Sep- tember , nearly two months earlier than the period fixed by law , in order to make provision for such an extraordinary emergency . The state of the nation was fully detailed to ...
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... circumstances , might perhaps be indefensible . It will be asked , what good purpose can the re - publication of this work answer at present ? Is it not , it will be said , far better to bury the hatchet , and to consign these things to ...
... circumstances , might perhaps be indefensible . It will be asked , what good purpose can the re - publication of this work answer at present ? Is it not , it will be said , far better to bury the hatchet , and to consign these things to ...
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Էջ 44 - Congress of the United States or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government or either house of the said Congress or the said President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Էջ 174 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Էջ 174 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Էջ 397 - ... part of the army, when their want of discipline, and refusal of almost every kind of restraint and government, have produced a like conduct but too common to the whole, and an entire disregard of that order and subordination necessary to the...
Էջ 397 - Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.
Էջ 166 - People, in every such case it shall be lawful for the President of The United States, or such other Person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the Land or Naval Forces of the United States, or of the Militia thereof, for the purpose of taking possession of and detaining any such Ship or Vessel...
Էջ 44 - ... the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States ; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act ; or to aid, encourage, or abet, any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people...
Էջ 400 - Sir, that the enemy are daily gathering strength from the disaffected. This strength, like a snow-ball by rolling, will increase, unless some means can be devised to check effectually the progress of the enemy's arms.
Էջ 79 - This plan was, in my conception, conformable with the strict theory of a government purely republican ; the essential criteria of which are that the principal organs of the executive and legislative departments be elected by the people and hold their offices by a responsible and temporary or defeasible tenure.
Էջ 122 - British islands were declared to be in a state of blockade" thereby subjecting to capture and condemnation all vessels, with their cargoes, which should continue to trade with His Majesty's dominions: And whereas, by the same order "all trading in English merchandise is prohibited, and every article of merchandise belonging to England, or coming from her colonies, or of her manufacture, is declared lawful prize.