 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 sidor
...and dangerous recoil upon ourselves, we might be called in defence of our own altars and firesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality...by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this invita? jion therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 658 sidor
...dangerous recoil VirJdn o'ufc8 68] selves, we might be called in defence of our own altars and firesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and cnoose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this invitation... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 sidor
...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... | |
 | Sir William Gore Ouseley - 1832 - 232 sidor
...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?... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1832 - 378 sidor
...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. 28. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 sidor
...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 - 1833 - 64 sidor
...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. Europe has a set of primary interests, ;which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 sidor
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocations; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantage of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 sidor
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us pro-vocation ; 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... 
