Maryland's Influence Upon Land Cessions to the United States, Volumen3N. Murray, publication agent, John Hopkins university, 1885 - 102 páginas |
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... importance of that cession as a basis of permanent union for thirteen loosely confederated States , and as a field for republican expansion under the sovereign control of Congress , may be presented under three general heads : 1. The ...
... importance of that cession as a basis of permanent union for thirteen loosely confederated States , and as a field for republican expansion under the sovereign control of Congress , may be presented under three general heads : 1. The ...
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... importance of the western country , and that practical sagacity which was as great in affairs of private enterprise as it was afterwards in the affairs of state . It is certain , moreover , that in his business undertakings , Wash ...
... importance of the western country , and that practical sagacity which was as great in affairs of private enterprise as it was afterwards in the affairs of state . It is certain , moreover , that in his business undertakings , Wash ...
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... importance of the region northwest of the Ohio as a source of national revenue , when the tide of immi- gration should set in , was recognized as early as 1776. Silas Deane , the agent whom the Continental Congress had sent to France ...
... importance of the region northwest of the Ohio as a source of national revenue , when the tide of immi- gration should set in , was recognized as early as 1776. Silas Deane , the agent whom the Continental Congress had sent to France ...
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... importance to this country of Maryland's subsequent opposition to the land claims has wholly escaped attention . The original proposition that Congress should exercise sovereign power over the western country was a pioneer thought , or ...
... importance to this country of Maryland's subsequent opposition to the land claims has wholly escaped attention . The original proposition that Congress should exercise sovereign power over the western country was a pioneer thought , or ...
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... importance which this letter to the New York legislature has for us , in this connection , is the revelation it affords of the growing influence of the Maryland policy in Congress . General Schuyler confesses that the opposition to the ...
... importance which this letter to the New York legislature has for us , in this connection , is the revelation it affords of the growing influence of the Maryland policy in Congress . General Schuyler confesses that the opposition to the ...
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Maryland's Influence Upon Land Cessions to the United States Herbert Baxter Adams Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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Página 70 - States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented until I have explored, the western country and traversed those lines, (or great part of them) which have given bounds to a new empire.
Página 75 - I need not remark to you, Sir, that the flanks and rear of the United States are possessed by other powers, and formidable ones too; nor how necessary it is to apply the cement of interest to bind all parts of the Union together by indissoluble bonds, especially that part of it, which lies immediately west of us, with the middle States.
Página 83 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising Empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Página 83 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Página 65 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 13 - Although the pressure of immediate calamities, the dread of their continuance from the appearance of disunion, and some other peculiar circumstances, may have induced some states to accede to the present confederation, contrary to their own interests and judgments, it requires no great share of foresight to predict, that •when those causes cease to operate, the states which have thus acceded to the confederation will consider it as no longer binding, and will eagerly embrace the first occasion...
Página 64 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.