The Life of Thomas Jefferson, 2. köideDerby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... Freneau from Office - His language and Motives considered - His Idea of a Casus Belli with the European Powers- Morris instructed to respect the De Facto Government of France - Jefferson's Ideas on Public Officers embarking in ...
... Freneau from Office - His language and Motives considered - His Idea of a Casus Belli with the European Powers- Morris instructed to respect the De Facto Government of France - Jefferson's Ideas on Public Officers embarking in ...
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... Freneau's paper , seemed to have in view the exciting opposition to the Government . That this had taken place in Pennsylvania as to the Excise Law , according to infor- mation he had received from General Hand . That they tended to ...
... Freneau's paper , seemed to have in view the exciting opposition to the Government . That this had taken place in Pennsylvania as to the Excise Law , according to infor- mation he had received from General Hand . That they tended to ...
Page 69
... Freneau - Translating - Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State ) received a salary for translations , or for publications , " the design of which was to vilify those to whom the voice of the people had committed the ...
... Freneau - Translating - Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State ) received a salary for translations , or for publications , " the design of which was to vilify those to whom the voice of the people had committed the ...
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... Freneau published an affida- vit to the effect that Mr. Jefferson had nothing to do with the establishment of his paper , or with his coming to Philadelphia -that he had nothing to do whatever with the management of the paper , and had ...
... Freneau published an affida- vit to the effect that Mr. Jefferson had nothing to do with the establishment of his paper , or with his coming to Philadelphia -that he had nothing to do whatever with the management of the paper , and had ...
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... Freneau , it should be confessed , had been drawn forth principally with a view to a character of greater impor- tance to the community , " that " they aimed at explaining a pub- lic officer , who had too little scruples to embarrass ...
... Freneau , it should be confessed , had been drawn forth principally with a view to a character of greater impor- tance to the community , " that " they aimed at explaining a pub- lic officer , who had too little scruples to embarrass ...
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Page 625 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Page 625 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse, that harmony and affection without which, liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect, that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 109 - The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood ? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Page 563 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion...
Page 625 - ... divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists.
Page 625 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 69 - Treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit...
Page 394 - ... the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the United States...
Page 394 - ... resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Page 293 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government, which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance, as they have already done the forms, of the British Government.