 | Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 456 strani
...our altars and firesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and choose peace or war as our interest, guided by justice shall counsel. The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest^ guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? "Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | United States. President - 1853 - 544 strani
...own altars and firgsides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington,... | |
 | 1853 - 514 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Lewis C. Munn - 1853 - 450 strani
...of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation, — when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 strani
...respected — when belligerent nations will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation— when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
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... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly... 
