A Century of American Diplomacy: Being a Brief Review of the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1776-1876New York, 1900 - 497 páginas |
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... received ; and the other , that for the attain- ment of our independence we should seek good relations , if not alliances , with the nations unfriendly to England . These opposing views were well expressed in Congress by Franklin and ...
... received ; and the other , that for the attain- ment of our independence we should seek good relations , if not alliances , with the nations unfriendly to England . These opposing views were well expressed in Congress by Franklin and ...
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... received greatly embittered his senti- ments towards England , and for the moment he lost his better judgment , as evinced by the preparation of an indiscreet official document , which , however , through the advice of friends , was ...
... received greatly embittered his senti- ments towards England , and for the moment he lost his better judgment , as evinced by the preparation of an indiscreet official document , which , however , through the advice of friends , was ...
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... received him in a furor of welcome . His writings , his scientific research , his philosophic turn of mind , his republican simplicity , and his peculiar dress contributed to make him the most noted man of the gay and learned French ...
... received him in a furor of welcome . His writings , his scientific research , his philosophic turn of mind , his republican simplicity , and his peculiar dress contributed to make him the most noted man of the gay and learned French ...
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... do so , they were detained . Mr. Jay states that during his 11 John Adams's Works , 660 . - 21 Jay's Correspondence and Papers , 84 . residence in Madrid he received no letters that did not 26 A CENTURY OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY .
... do so , they were detained . Mr. Jay states that during his 11 John Adams's Works , 660 . - 21 Jay's Correspondence and Papers , 84 . residence in Madrid he received no letters that did not 26 A CENTURY OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY .
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... received no letters that did not bear the marks of having been opened , and that those he received he supposed to form but a fraction of those kept back . Added to the espionage of the mails was the hazard of capture by the British ...
... received no letters that did not bear the marks of having been opened , and that those he received he supposed to form but a fraction of those kept back . Added to the espionage of the mails was the hazard of capture by the British ...
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Página 463 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions or policy or internal administration of any foreign state ; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.
Página 382 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Página 427 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 432 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Página 112 - Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.
Página 249 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 413 - A neutral Government is bound — First. — To use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 130 - On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who inheriting inferior endowments from nature, and...
Página 191 - But I suppose they must then appeal to the nation for an additional article to the Constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union.
Página 51 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...