A History of the American People
America's vast resources and making it the richest country on earth. It was capitalism, not the state, which would conquer, tame ...
McCulloch as an outrageous' vindication ofartificial' property. Taylor's pronouncement, wrote Jefferson, was the true political ...
government, and his friend Madison, drafted a series of resolutions, passed by the Virginia legislature and copied in Kentucky, ...
contact not only with her own servile half-brothers and sisters, one of whom at least worked in the house, but with her husband' ...
estates, he actually bought more slaves. When one of his slaves ran away he offered a reward for his capture. When he was about ...
efficient central government and the recovery of American credit, the passion for villa-building intensified. The Schuylkill, ne ...
His workmen, Messrs Neilson, Stewart, Chisholm, Oldham, and Dinsmore, required infinite patience as Jefferson changed his mind r ...
In the light of this saga of debt, it is amazing that Jefferson was as good a president as he contrived to be. In fact he manage ...
and the only occasion when the Vice-President came into prominence was when he presided, ex officio, at the impeachment of Supre ...
frustrations at not doing anything about American slavery. It certainly aroused the envy of Admiral Nelson, then British naval C ...
I would not give one inch of the Mississippi to any nation, because I see in a light very important to our peace the exclusive r ...
in the Columbia estuary. Within a few months it had been reported in the leading St Louis newspapers that `it appears that a jou ...
flourished and British ships had a monopoly of legitimate trade. By a cunning piece of legal legerdemain Bonaparte impounded $10 ...
political and literary education in itself. Small, industrious, moderate, soft-spoken, seeing all sides of the question, trying ...
a group of Southern and Western states, led by the Carolinas, Georgia, and Kentucky, making 128 votes. But the seven states whic ...
flatly refused to send their militias at all. New England did not exactly sit on its hands: it invested its money in London secu ...
the famous novelist, on the British frigate Spartan, sank or captured scores of American vessels in US inshore waters. But what ...
Britain and grew in the telling. An Edinburgh newspaper doubled the ship's size, adding: To annoy an enemy attempting to board, ...
army of Peninsular War veterans, Madison's conduct makes no sense. Moreover, he was warned. The British naval commander, Sir Ale ...
Eighteenth Street, Madison relieved his despair by sacking Armstrong and accepting the resignations of the Navy and Treasury sec ...
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