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To disregard such instructions required all the lofty courage for which Jay and Adams were noted, and for the moment it brought upon them something like a rebuke from Congress, conveyed in a letter from Robert Livingston. As Adams said, in his vehement way, "Congress surrendered their own sovereignty into the hands of a French minister. Blush! blush! ye guilty records! blush and perish!
If so, declare the same fully and at length, in the same manner as if you had been particularly interrogated thereto. Miller & Van Wyck, Attorneys for Defendant. Approved, March 6, 1805. B. Livingston.
Late in May he returned to Paris, where he joined with General Armstrong, who had succeeded Livingston, in urging upon the Administration the advisability of seizing Texas, leaving West Florida alone for the present. Months of vacillation followed the failure of Monroe's mission.
"I shall ask some of our craftswomen here to build beds for the cabin," announced the Chief Guardian, as they were sitting down. "It is not necessary," replied Miss Elting. "Our girls prefer the bough beds, which they will build during the day." "And what will our new Torch Bearer do to amuse herself after the regular duties of the day are done?" questioned Mrs. Livingston.
"If taxes are laid upon us in any shape, without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves?" asked Samuel Adams of Boston. "These duties are only the beginning of evils," said Livingston of New York.
Addington was then the British Prime Minister. Robert R. Livingston was our minister in Paris. You may also find that Talleyrand expressed the view that socially and economically England and America were one and indivisible. At some time during all this, rumor got abroad of Bonaparte's projects regarding Louisiana.
The road now passes into Columbia County, where everything is, was, and ever shall be, Livingston. The family manor is on the river bank, six miles away, but the family, like the locusts for number, has spread up and down the river for a hundred miles or more.
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICA: J. S. Bassett, A Short History of the United States , ch. i, ii, a good outline; Edward Channing, A History of the United States, Vol. I , an excellent and more detailed narrative; Livingston Farrand, Basis of American History , Vol.
Livingston to dine with me to-morrow; but am I not in honor bound to apprize them of their fate? As I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned; I will. It is needless to premise, that my table is large enough to hold the ladies. Of this they had ocular proof yesterday. To say how it is usually covered, is rather more essential; and this shall be the purport of my Letter.
The Clinton and Livingston families were prepared to unite in a crusade against Colonel Burr; the chieftains of each section hoping to fill the station from which he was to be expelled. General Hamilton was in favour of the election of Mr. Jefferson, as opposed to Colonel Burr.
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