..."eighteen millions of people struggling to burst their chains." "We look too much abroad," he said; "let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician,...place , ourselves at the head of the American system." So long as our ' negotiations with Spain over the Florida treaty were pending (seepage 303) we cautiously...

...years later Clay induced the House to adopt a resolution favoring recognition, using the argument: "Let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician....place ourselves at the head of the American system." But the State Department felt that the more pressing question was to secure the transfer of Florida...

...would stand in sharp contrast with the despotisms of the Old World. "We look too much abroad," he said. "Let us break these commercial and political fetters...place ourselves at the head of the American system." This enticing prospect of a group of free states was threatened by the policy of the European powers....

...these commercial and political fetters; let us no longer watch the nod of any Kuropcan politicians ; let us become real and true Americans and place ourselves...the patriots would have reason to be satisfied with th ' abundant expressions of it. But something more was wanting. Some gentlemen had intimated. (that...

..."eighteen millions of people struggling to burst their chains." "We look too much abroad," he said; "let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician,...place ourselves at the head of the American system. " So long as our negotiations with Spain over the Florida treaty were pending (see page 303) we cautiously...

...administration to the views of foreign powers. "Let us break these commercial and political fetters," he cried; "let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician...place ourselves at the head of the American system." 77 In a speech delivered at Lexington in the early summer of 1821, Clay sounded the alarm against Europe....

...by transportation, and our country will realize the mercantile profits."118 He urged that we should "become real and true Americans and place ourselves at the head of the American system." As early as 1820 he had announced the grandiose plan of establishing "a human freedom league in America,...

...the lead of the Holy Alliance in a course which jeopardizes the happiness of unborn millions? . . . Our Institutions . . . now make us free; but, how...and true Americans, and place ourselves at the head ot the American system. As far as can be discovered, this was the first time Clay used the expression...

...independence as well: Our institutions . . . now make us free; but how long shall we continue so, if we mold our opinions on those of Europe? Let us break these...Americans, and place ourselves at the head of the American system.26 The home market offered an opportunity to escape these dangers. America's unique situation...

...example "The Tariff," SQR 1 (April 1842): 513. his sympathy with the revolutionary regimes of Latin America. "Our Institutions . . . now make us free;...place ourselves at the head of the American system." 83 Instinctively, Clay understood what economic historians in the twentieth century came to believe,...