DBQ 6/7

Ferling on Washington Administration by Arieh Sclar

There is one strong and striking point of view in which the subject of impressment may be considered, and which really renders the tame...

I am aware that on two subjects I have the misfortune to differ with many of my Virginia friends – Internal Improvements and Home...

“The president had received the dispatches that Marshall had written describing the XYZ Affair and the collapse of negotiations with...

Jefferson continued to believe that Washington would see things as he did, and he fell into the unbecoming habit of complaining, even...

Attended the Cabinet meeting at the President’s from noon till five o’clock. The subject of deliberation was General Jackson’s late...

I walked home with Calhoun who said that the principles which I had avowed were just and noble but that in the Southern country, whenever...

“If most Southerners did not support the tariff of 1816 through a desire to have manufacturing, why then did they vote for it? The true...

Of the same nature, though of less practicable aspect, is another Utopian idea, which I presume to suggest to the genuine friends of...

Resolved, That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, who shall have in charge to communicate the preceding...

“The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe…Our broad domains are fast escaping...