 If we can delay but for a few years the necessity of vindicating the laws of nature on the ocean, we shall be the more sure of doing it with effect. The day is within my time as well as yours, when we may say by what laws other nations shall treat us...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 4561833Full view - About this book
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 pages
...was ten years ago. This will be a duplication in twenty-three or twenty-four years. If we can delay but for a few years the necessity of vindicating the...nations shall treat us on the sea. And we will say it. In the mean time, we wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal. We call in our diplomatic... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 pages
...was ten years ago. This will be a duplication in twenty-three or tw,entv-four years. If we can delay but for a few years the necessity of vindicating the...nations shall treat us on the sea. And we will say it. In the meantime, wo wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal. We call in our diplomatic... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1865 - 954 pages
...Perseveringly hostile as his party had been to the establishment of a Navy,* Jefferson now declared — " The day is within my time as well as yours, when we...say by what laws other nations shall treat us on the Seas, and we will say it. In the mean time we wish to let every treaty drop off without renewal." f... | |
 | 1870 - 760 pages
...twentyfour years. If we can delay but for a few years the necessity of vindicating the laws of nations on the ocean, we shall be the more sure of doing/...nations shall treat us on the sea. AND WE WILL SAY IT. In the meantime, wo wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal. We call in our diplomatic... | |
 | 1870 - 774 pages
...delay but for a few years the necessity of vindicating the laws of nations on the ocean, we shall le the more sure of doing it with effect. The day is...nations shall treat us on the sea. AND WE WILL SAY IT. In the meantime, we wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal. We call in our diplomatic... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 pages
...Perseveringly hostile as his party had been to the establishment of a Navy,* Jefferson now declared — " The day is within my time as well as yours, when we...say by what laws other nations shall treat us on the Seas, and we will say it. In the mean time we wish to let every treaty drop off without renewal." f... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 388 pages
...gather wealth, increase, and power through peace. " The day," he wrote, in one of his happy dreamings, " is within my time as well as yours, when we may say...nations shall treat us on the sea. And we will say it. In the mean time we wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal." It was a civilized... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 pages
...wealth, increase, and power through peace. " The day," he wrote, in one of his happy dreamings, " ia within my time as well as yours, when we may say by...nations shall treat us on the sea. And we will say it. In the mean time we wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal." It was a civilized... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1892 - 374 pages
...gather wealth, increase, and power through peace. " The day," he wrote, in one of his happy dreamings, " is within my time as well as yours, when we may say by what laws other nations shall treat us ou the sea. And we will say it. In the mean time we wish to let every treaty we have drop off without... | |
 | Freeman Snow - 1894 - 536 pages
...interest, and a recovery from debt. We feel ourselves strong and growing stronger. * * * If we can delay but for a few years the necessity of vindicating the...laws other nations shall treat us on the sea. And we shall say it. In the mean, time we wish to let every treaty we have drop off without renewal. We call... | |
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