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... things , and sent over orders to have two forts built on the Ohio , and dispatched thirty cannon , with ammunition , to defend them . The French , however , had outstripped the slow movements of their rival , for they had already ...
... things , and sent over orders to have two forts built on the Ohio , and dispatched thirty cannon , with ammunition , to defend them . The French , however , had outstripped the slow movements of their rival , for they had already ...
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... things had taken , and be puzzled to know what course to pursue . They asked Mr. Gist , who had been sent by Governor Dinwiddie to trade with them , " whereabout the Indian lands lay , as the French claimed all on one side of the Ohio ...
... things had taken , and be puzzled to know what course to pursue . They asked Mr. Gist , who had been sent by Governor Dinwiddie to trade with them , " whereabout the Indian lands lay , as the French claimed all on one side of the Ohio ...
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... thing with them but the artillery . Washington , on the other hand , agreed to restore the prisoners taken in his ... things Washington should not have consented to , and of which he was entirely ignorant at the time of the capitu ...
... thing with them but the artillery . Washington , on the other hand , agreed to restore the prisoners taken in his ... things Washington should not have consented to , and of which he was entirely ignorant at the time of the capitu ...
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... thing was absolutely impossible , and the order was countermanded . The Assembly when it met voted twenty thousand pounds for the public service . This , with ten thousand sent over by the English government , put Dinwiddie in funds ...
... thing was absolutely impossible , and the order was countermanded . The Assembly when it met voted twenty thousand pounds for the public service . This , with ten thousand sent over by the English government , put Dinwiddie in funds ...
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... things . But this being a voluntary act , I ought not to have mentioned it , nor should I have done it , were it not to show that I have been on the losing order ever since I entered the service , which is now nearly two years . " A ...
... things . But this being a voluntary act , I ought not to have mentioned it , nor should I have done it , were it not to show that I have been on the losing order ever since I entered the service , which is now nearly two years . " A ...
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Página 487 - Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Página 481 - Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a Country ; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security...
Página 481 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 482 - 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...
Página 483 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Página 481 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Página 480 - The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...
Página 484 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded ; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Página 482 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government, a real despotism.
Página 106 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Treason," cried the Speaker — "treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House.