The Writings of George Washington: 1794-1798G. P. Putnam's sons, 1892 |
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administration affectionate agreeable ALEXANDER HAMILTON answer appear appointment assured believe Britain BUSHROD WASHINGTON cause character Charles Cotesworth Pinckney circumstances citizens commerce communication conceive conduct confidence Congress consideration constitution course DEAR SIR despatches doubt duty EDMUND RANDOLPH effect esteem and regard execution expected experience express faction favor Federal City fellow-citizens France French Directory French government friends friendship gazettes give given Gouverneur Morris Hamilton hands happiness honor House of Representatives influence interest JAMES MCHENRY July justice letter liberty Lord Grenville matter means measures ment mind minister Monroe motives MOUNT VERNON necessary object occasion opinion papers party patriotism peace PHILADELPHIA Pinckney political present President principles proper ratification received relation render request require respect Secretary SECRETARY OF WAR Senate sent sentiments session sincere spirit thing TIMOTHY PICKERING tion treaty Union United Washington wish
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Stran 316 - 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. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Stran 299 - 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, afterwards, the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Stran 305 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Stran 319 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Stran 306 - 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.
Stran 284 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
Stran 286 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now -dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence — the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Stran 301 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Stran 301 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Stran 322 - The considerations which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe, that according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all. The duty of holding a neutral conduct...