 | 1841 - 460 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. President - 1842 - 794 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 on foreign ground... | |
 | M. Sears - 1842 - 586 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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... | |
 | M. Sears - 1844 - 582 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... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1844 - 612 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?... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 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... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1846 - 240 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 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | William Hickey - 1846 - 396 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?... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 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... | |
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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... 
