Autor: DiscursosBP
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Special Message to Congress on Relations with France
Gentlemen of the Senate arid Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: The personal inconveniences to the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives in leaving their families and private affairs at this season of the year are so obvious that I the more regret the extraordinary occasion which has rendered the convention…
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Suspicions of the French government
The personal inconveniences to the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives in leaving their families and private affairs at this season of the year are so obvious that I the more regret the extraordinary occasion which has rendered the convention of Congress indispensable. It would have afforded me the highest satisfaction…
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Inaugural Address in the City of Philadelphia
WHEN it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and a total independence of its claims, men of reflection were less apprehensive of danger from the formidable power of fleets and armies they must determine to resist than from those contests and…
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Farewell adress
The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may…
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Talk to the Cherokee Nation
Beloved Cherokees, Many years have passed since the White people first came to America. In that long space of time many good men have considered how the condition of the Indian natives of the country might be improved; and many attempts have been made to effect it. But, as we see at this day, all…
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Proclamation à l’Armée
Soldats, vous avez en quinze jours remporté la victoire, pris 21 drapeaux, 55 pièces de canon, plusieurs places fortes, conquis la partie la plus riche du Piémont; vous avez fait 15000 prisonniers, tué ou blessé près de 10000 hommes. Vous vous étiez jusqu’ici battus pour des rochers stériles. Dénués de tout vous avez supplée à…
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Proclamation à l’Armée. Piémont
«Soldats, vous avez en quinze jours remporté la victoire, pris 21 drapeaux, 55 pièces de canon, plusieurs places fortes, conquis la partie la plus riche du Piémont; vous avez fait 15000 prisonniers, tué ou blessé près de 10000 hommes. Vous vous étiez jusqu’ici battus pour des rochers stériles. Dénués de tout vous avez supplée à…
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Address to the Massachusetts legislature
The people of this Commonwealth, in their declaration of rights, have recorded their own opinion, that the Legislature ought frequently to assemble for the redress of grievances, correcting, strengthening and confirming the Laws, and making new Laws, as the common good may require.—The Laws of the Commonwealth are intended to secure to each and all…
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Militia Service
Whereas, from a hope that the combinations against the Constitution and laws of the United States, in certain of the Western counties of Pennsylvania, would yield to time and reflection, I thought it sufficient, in the first instance, rather to take measures for calling forth the militia than immediately to embody them; but the moment…
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Dernier discours
Citoyens, Que d’autres vous tracent des tableaux flatteurs : je viens vous dire des vérités utiles. Je ne viens point réaliser des terreurs ridicules répandues par la perfidie ; mais je veux étouffer, s’il est possible, les flambeaux de la discorde par la seule force de la vérité. Je vais défendre devant vous votre autorité…