Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Tyler: Embracing the Executive Proclamations, Recommendations, Protests, and Vetoes, from 1789 to 1842, Together with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the U.S. |
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... adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depredations ; but you will per- ceive , from the information contained in the papers which I ...
... adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depredations ; but you will per- ceive , from the information contained in the papers which I ...
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... adopted to make those of a hostile description sensible that a pacification was desired upon terms of moderation and justice . Those measures having proved unsuccessful , it became necessary , to convince the refractory of the power of ...
... adopted to make those of a hostile description sensible that a pacification was desired upon terms of moderation and justice . Those measures having proved unsuccessful , it became necessary , to convince the refractory of the power of ...
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... adopted . In the framing of these , care has been taken to guard , on the one hand , our advanced settlements from the preda- tory incursions of those unruly individuals who cannot be restrained by their tribes , and on the other hand ...
... adopted . In the framing of these , care has been taken to guard , on the one hand , our advanced settlements from the preda- tory incursions of those unruly individuals who cannot be restrained by their tribes , and on the other hand ...
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... adopted , the plan ought to exclude all those branches which are already , or likely soon to be , established in the coun- try , in order that there may be no danger of interference with pursuits of individual industry . It will not be ...
... adopted , the plan ought to exclude all those branches which are already , or likely soon to be , established in the coun- try , in order that there may be no danger of interference with pursuits of individual industry . It will not be ...
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... adopted without effect ; when the well - disposed in those counties are unable by their influence and example to reclaim the wicked from their fury , and are compelled to associate in their own defence ; when the proffered lenity has ...
... adopted without effect ; when the well - disposed in those counties are unable by their influence and example to reclaim the wicked from their fury , and are compelled to associate in their own defence ; when the proffered lenity has ...
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Page 55 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 482 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the...
Page 85 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens- — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 54 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Page 50 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence,...
Page 51 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
Page 56 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, — so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 53 - The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.
Page 266 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 48 - The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being- not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom...