 Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence,...  The Congressional Globe - Trang 55bởi United States. Congress - 1851Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | James Roger Sharp - 1993 - 388 trang
...to be convinced "that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence." In addition to urging new efforts at negotiation, the president outlined plans to strengthen the nation's... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 trang
...France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments...influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and intercut.*' Following that May 16th diatribe, the President's supporters saw his critics as the "miserable... | |
 | Alice L. George - 2004 - 166 trang
...France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence." He sought $2 million in appropriations to bolster both the navy and the militia for possible war. Congress... | |
 | Ian W Toll - 2006 - 614 trang
...must be persuaded that "we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments...regardless of national honor, character, and interest." A three-member bipartisan peace commission would sail for France immediately to make one last attempt... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 trang
...France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments...regardless of national honor, character, and interest." Self-rule and constitutional union go together, he told Secretary of Foreign Affairs Robert Livingston:... | |
 | Russell D. Buhite - 2003 - 420 trang
...France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments...to conceal them; but they have passed on the great theater of the world, in the face of all Europe and America, and with such circumstances of publicity... | |
 | Walter Wilson Jennings - 1926 - 850 trang
...France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments...regardless of national honor, character, and interest. ' ' 7 But since Adams desired peace, he acted on Talleyrand's hint that an embassy would be received,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1863 - 572 trang
...France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear, and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardleso of national honor, character and interest." Adams, doubtless influenced by the tremendous... | |
 | 1826 - 868 trang
...as crafty caresses of those perfidious Persons, who meditate them back to their former slavery. <• I should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these tions. if it had been possible to conceal them ; but they hav on the great theatre of the world, in... | |
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