A History of the American People
He summed up his faith six weeks before he died in a letter to Ezra Stiles, saying he followed the precepts of Christ while doub ...
Tom Paine, rebuking him for dismissing religion as needless: He who spits in the wind spits in his own face ... If men are wicke ...
Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His mercy, to implore His protection and favor ... That great and glorious Be ...
Washington for president, who was elected unanimously. They did consider putting up George Clinton for vice-president, but in th ...
get anything at all. The rest of the domestic debt, and the whole of the foreign debt, was fully funded, being rescheduled as lo ...
Hamilton thought he had made his point and that the government had gained reputation and strength.’ Following his reports on the ...
went back to the times when specie or currency of any kind had been hard to get hold of, and the British government had frustrat ...
every man-and woman. It was distinctly unAmerican, where the inherent goodness and perfectibility of human nature was taken for ...
whereby the Southerners, in exchange for their votes got the federal capital located on the Potomac. But, he would reply, there ...
of State, and Edmund Randolph (1753-1813), also from Virginia, who were both states' rights men. Those were the six men who met ...
England puritan killjoy than a Virginia gentleman for protesting at this modest display. Nor did it save the President from occa ...
issued a Revolutionary decree declaring, War with all kings and peace with all peoples.' Edmond Charles Genet, an excitable enra ...
dispatch, deliberately fed to Washington by his Secretary of State's enemies, appeared to reveal him soliciting French bribes in ...
years later by the Salem-based Grand Turk. This coincided with the opening up of the New England-northwest (Oregon) route by Cap ...
This is a very strong statement of the moral obligations of all citizens to comply with the decisions of duly constituted govern ...
executive must follow the constitution in all things, and he expected Congress and people to do likewise. It was in this respect ...
protect New England trade), freedom of the seas, and holding the balance.' So he tried to keep the army small and build ships-in ...
more than two hundred million.' But he did not want to see it. He hated progress, change, the consequences of science and techno ...
not look the part. He was tall, loose-limbed, and raw-boned, badly dressed, none too clean, a great gossip and gregarian. Wit he ...
and productive classes.' He compared this new financial power with the old feudal and ecclesiastical power, with the bankers usi ...
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