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Europe (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
the United States, to the advantage of other European powers, and sometimes they have appeared to cmeans against the establishment of any future European colony within its borders may be found advisa and commerce with all the principal powers of Europe. They met and resided, for that purpose, aboud philosophical, though absolute, sovereign in Europe to their liberal and enlightened principles. rights which marked the progress of the late European wars. and which finally involved the United ed as subjects for future colonization by any European power. The principle had first been assumed of this hemisphere, and we were surrounded by European colonies, with the greater part of which we herests which have none or a remote relation to Europe; that the interference of Europe, therefore, iEurope, therefore, in those concerns should be spontaneously withheld by her upon the same principles that we have neverns may not give umbrage to the holy league of European powers or offence to Spain, it is deemed a su[13 more...]
Braintree (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
Adams, John Quincy, 1767- Sixth President of the United States; from 1825 to 1829; Republican; born in Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1767; was a son of President John Adams; and was graduated at Harvard College in 1787. In February, 1778, he accompanied his father to France, where he studied the French and Latin languages for nearly two years. After an interval, he returned to France and resumed his studies, which were subsequently pursued at Amsterdam and at the University of Leyden. At the age of fourteen years, he accompanied Mr. Dana to Russia as his private secretary. The next year he spent some time at Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Hamburg. He afterwards accompanied his father (who was American minister) to England and France and returned home with him early in 1785. After his graduation at Harvard, he studied law with the eminent Theophilus Parsons, practised at Boston, and soon became distinguished as a political writer. In 1791 he published a series of articles in favor
Mount Vernon (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
suffered by his associates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of the nation in the neglect to provide for the payment even of the interest upon the public debt; over the disappointed hopes of the friends of freedom; in the language of the address from Congress to the States of the 18th of April, 1783, The pride and boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature. At his residence in Mount Vernon, in March, 1785, the first idea was started of a revisal of the Articles of Confederation by an organization of means differing from that of a compact between the State legislatures and their own delegates in Congress. A convention of delegates from the State legislatures, independent of the Congress itself, was the expedient which presented itself for effecting the purpose, and an augmentation of the powers of Congress for the regulation of commerce as the object for which this assembly
Preussen (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
neutrality with France over the signature of Publius. He was engaged in the diplomatic service of his country as minister, successively, to Holland, England, and Prussia from 1794 to 1801. He received a commission, in 1798, to negotiate a treaty with Sweden. At Berlin he wrote a series of Letters from Silesia. Mr. Adams married and resided, for that purpose, about one year at Paris, and the only result of their negotiations at that time was the first treaty between the United States and Prussia-memorable in the diplomatic annals of the world, and precious as a monument of the principles, in relation to commerce and maritime warfare, with which our countr that spirit which prompted the declaration of our independence, which inspired the preamble of our first treaty with France, which dictated our first treaty with Prussia, and the instructions under which it was negotiated, which filled the hearts and fired the souls of the immortal founders of our Revolution. With this unrestri
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
at the beginning of what was popularly known as the era of good feeling. the settlement of questions growing out of the war with Great Britain (1812-15) having freed the government from foreign political embarrassments and enabled it to give fuller attention to domestic concerns. During his occupation of this office Mr. Adams was identified with the negotiation of the treaty with Spain by which Florida was ceded to the United States for $5,000,000, and by which also the boundary between Louisiana and Mexico was established. He is credited with having been the author of the declaration known as the Monroe doctrine (see Monroe, James). The closing part of his term as Secretary was marked by the legislation of the Missouri compromise (Missouri). When President Monroe submitted to his cabinet the two questions concerning the interpretation of the act as passed by the Congress, Mr. Adams stood alone in the opinion that the word forever meant forever. When Monroe's administration wa
Porto Rico (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
ant of a foreign prince under conditions equivalent to the concession by them of exclusive commercial advantages to one nation, adapted altogether to the state of colonial vassalage and retaining little of independence but the name. Our plenipotentiaries will be instructed to present these views to the assembly at Panama, and, should they not he concurred in, to decline acceding to any arrangement which may be proposed upon different principles. The condition of the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico is of deeper import and more immediate bearing upon the present interests and future prospects of our Union. The correspondence herewith transmitted will show how earnestly it has engaged the attention of this government. The invasion of both those islands by the united forces of Mexico and Colombia is avowedly among the objects to be matured by the belligerent states at Panama. The convulsions to which, from the peculiar composition of their population, they would be liable in the even
France (France) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
ed at Harvard College in 1787. In February, 1778, he accompanied his father to France, where he studied the French and Latin languages for nearly two years. After an interval, he returned to France and resumed his studies, which were subsequently pursued at Amsterdam and at the University of Leyden. At the age of fourteen years,He afterwards accompanied his father (who was American minister) to England and France and returned home with him early in 1785. After his graduation at Harvard, he riter. In 1791 he published a series of articles in favor of neutrality with France over the signature of Publius. He was engaged in the diplomatic service of hisation of our independence, which inspired the preamble of our first treaty with France, which dictated our first treaty with Prussia, and the instructions under which the victorious combatant had been Britain. She had conquered the provinces of France. She had expelled her rival totally from the continent, over which, bounding h
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
the foundation of our future intercourse with them in the broadest principles of reciprocity and the most cordial feelings of fraternal friendship. To extend those principles to all our commercial relations with them and to hand down that friendship to future ages is congenial to the highest policy of the Union, as it will be to that of all those nations and their posterity. In the confidence that these sentiments will meet the approbation of the Senate, I nominate Richard C. Anderson, of Kentucky, and John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, to be envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the assembly of American nations at Panama, and William B. Rochester, of New York, to be secretary to the mission. John Quincy Adams. On March 15, 1826, he sent the following reply to a House resolution: To the House of Representatives of the United States,--In compliance with the resolution of the House of the 5th ultimo. requesting me to cause to be laid before the House so much of t
Runnymede (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
heir of the executed king had been restored to the crown. In the latter, at the first onset, the royal recreant had fled — he was held to have abdicated the crown, and it was place upon the heads of his daughter and of her husband, the prime leader of the conspiracy against him. In these events there had been much controversy upon the platform of English liberties — upon the customs of the ancient Britons, the laws of Alfred, the witenagemote of the Anglo-Saxons, and the Great Charter of Runnymede with all its numberless confirmations. But the actors of those times had never ascended to the first foundation of civil society among men, nor had any revolutionary system of government been rested upon them. The motive for the Declaration of Independence was on its face avowed to be a decent respect for the opinions of mankind ; its purpose, to declare the causes which impelled the people of the English colonies on the continent of North America to separate themselves from the politi
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry adams-john-quincy
ied his father (who was American minister) to England and France and returned home with him early iountry as minister, successively, to Holland, England, and Prussia from 1794 to 1801. He received llatin negotiated a commercial treaty with Great Britain, which was signed July 13, 1815. Mr. Adamst of questions growing out of the war with Great Britain (1812-15) having freed the government fromhe habeas corpus, enacted admiralty courts in England to try Americans for offences charged againstibutes of sovereign power. In the history of England itself, within one century and a half before which the King, Parliament, and people of Great Britain had perverted the powers to the destructiol connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; anction of all the colonies to the nation of Great Britain, and to constitute them free and independeheir eternal separation from the nation of Great Britain, and declared the United Colonies independ
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