Excerpt from A Hundred Years of American Diplomacy: A Paper Somewhat less than a century and a quarter ago the repre sentatives of the United States of America, assembled in General Congress at the city of Philadelphia, declared that the thirteen United Colonies possessed, as free and independ ent States, full power to leyy'wargconclude peace, contract alliances, establish commef???ej'apd to do acts and things which Independent States fiay'bf right do. The period that has since elapsed, measured by the general duration of ...
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Excerpt from A Hundred Years of American Diplomacy: A Paper Somewhat less than a century and a quarter ago the repre sentatives of the United States of America, assembled in General Congress at the city of Philadelphia, declared that the thirteen United Colonies possessed, as free and independ ent States, full power to leyy'wargconclude peace, contract alliances, establish commef???ej'apd to do acts and things which Independent States fiay'bf right do. The period that has since elapsed, measured by the general duration of national life, is comparatively'firief; bi'itrits importance is not to be estimated by length of years. The United States came into being, as an independent nation, on the eve of great mutations in the world's political and moral order. The prin ciples on which the government was founded were indeed not new; they had been proclaimed by philosophers in other times and in other lands; but they found here a congenial and unpre occupied soil and an opportunity to grow. The theories of philosophers became in America the practice of statesmen. The rights of man became the rights of men. But the new nation, though conceived in liberty and dedicated to freedom, was practical in its aims and judicious in its methods. It also recognized the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness as belonging to men not only as individuals. But also in their aggregate political capacity as independent nations. Adopting therefore as its rule non-intervention, it declined the proposal of the revolutionary government in France, in 1793, for a national agreement, in which two great peoples shall suspend their commercial and political interests, and establish a mutual understanding to defend the empire of liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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