 ... this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one state against another, to prevent their growing importance,...  Works - Page 13by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 552 pages
...relaxing the powers of the union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For according to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - Biography & Autobiography - 1927 - 392 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 508 pages
...to the Governors of the States: "Convinced of the importance of the crisis, silence in me," he said, "would be a crime. I will, therefore, speak the language of freedom and sincerity." He set forth the need of union in a strain that touched the quick of sensibility; he held up the citizens... | |
 | George Washington - Government publications - 1783 - 618 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of Policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall,... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...attachments, and intrigues. In Washington's words from his Circular Address of 1783, America would then become "the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes." As Washington noted in a letter the same year, this was so "altho' we might have no great inclination... | |
 | Stuart Leibiger - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 300 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one State against another ... to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of Policy the States shall adopt... | |
 | Genealogy - 1898 - 784 pages
...of the States at the close of the war said: "With this •conviction of the importance of the coming crisis, silence in me would be a crime. I will therefore speak to your excellency the language of freedom and sincerity without disgrace. There are four things which... | |
 | John Slade - United States - 2002 - 740 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. " All that we had fought for could now be preserved, or lost. "According to the system of Policy the... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 204 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of Policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall,... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - Presidents - 2004 - 68 pages
...relaxing the powers of the union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall;... | |
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