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... Tennessee , and Kentucky admitted . Indian hostil- ities . Whiskey Insurrection . Subsequent prosperity . Farewell Address . PRESIDENT OF SENATE . - John Adams . CHAPLAIN OF SENATE , 1789.- Rt . Rev. Bishop Provost ( Episcopal ) ...
... Tennessee , and Kentucky admitted . Indian hostil- ities . Whiskey Insurrection . Subsequent prosperity . Farewell Address . PRESIDENT OF SENATE . - John Adams . CHAPLAIN OF SENATE , 1789.- Rt . Rev. Bishop Provost ( Episcopal ) ...
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... Tennessee . .— Alexander J. DALLAS , Pennsylvania . 1814.- SECRETARIES OF WAR : 1809. - WILLIAM EUSTIS , Massachusetts . 1813. JOHN ARMSTRONG , New York . 1814. -JAMES MONROE , Virginia . 1815 . 1809 . 1813 . WM . H. CRAWFORD , Georgia ...
... Tennessee . .— Alexander J. DALLAS , Pennsylvania . 1814.- SECRETARIES OF WAR : 1809. - WILLIAM EUSTIS , Massachusetts . 1813. JOHN ARMSTRONG , New York . 1814. -JAMES MONROE , Virginia . 1815 . 1809 . 1813 . WM . H. CRAWFORD , Georgia ...
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... Tennessee and Georgia are disturbed by the Creeks , Chero- kees , and Choctaws . Forsyth of Georgia , Gaston of North Carolina , McLean of Ohio , and Daniel Webster , are elected to Congress . New England opposes the war . The ...
... Tennessee and Georgia are disturbed by the Creeks , Chero- kees , and Choctaws . Forsyth of Georgia , Gaston of North Carolina , McLean of Ohio , and Daniel Webster , are elected to Congress . New England opposes the war . The ...
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Edward Griffin Tileston. JACKSON'S ADMINISTRATION . 1829 ΤΟ 1837 . PRESIDENT : ANDREW JACKSON , TENNESSEE . VICE - PRESIDENTS 123.
Edward Griffin Tileston. JACKSON'S ADMINISTRATION . 1829 ΤΟ 1837 . PRESIDENT : ANDREW JACKSON , TENNESSEE . VICE - PRESIDENTS 123.
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... Tennessee . 1831.- -LEWIS CASS , Ohio . 1829 . ་ SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY : JOHN BRANCH , North Carolina . 1831. LEVI WOODBURY , New Hampshire . 1834. - MAHLON DICKERSON , New Jersey . POSTMASTERS - GENERAL : 1829. - WILLIAM T. BARRY ...
... Tennessee . 1831.- -LEWIS CASS , Ohio . 1829 . ་ SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY : JOHN BRANCH , North Carolina . 1831. LEVI WOODBURY , New Hampshire . 1834. - MAHLON DICKERSON , New Jersey . POSTMASTERS - GENERAL : 1829. - WILLIAM T. BARRY ...
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Page 22 - The east. in a like intercourse with the west, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The west derives from the east supplies requisite to its growth and comfort — and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions, to the weight, influence,...
Page 24 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Page 44 - ... equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none, the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 20 - Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Page 196 - ... the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war-measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States, and parts of States, wherein the people...
Page 108 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 20 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 21 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 45 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 200 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.