Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence, المجلد 6University of Delaware Press, 1925 |
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الصفحة 23 - I wish you to be possessed of the subject, because you may be able to impress on the government of France the inevitable consequences of their taking possession of Louisiana; and though, as I here mention, the cession of New Orleans and the Floridas to us would be a palliation, yet I believe it would be no more, and that this measure will cost France, and perhaps not very long hence, a war which will annihilate her on the ocean, and place that element under the despotism of two nations, which I am...
الصفحة 23 - ... two nations, which I am not reconciled to the more because my own would be one of them. Add to this the exclusive appropriation of both continents of America as a consequence. I wish the present order of things to continue, and with a view to this I value highly a state of friendship between France and us. You know too well how sincere I have ever been in these dispositions to doubt them. You know, too, how much I value peace, and how unwillingly I should see any event take place which would...
الصفحة 23 - Louisiana ; and though, as 1 here mention, the cession of New Orleans and the Floridas to us would be a palliation, yet I believe it would be no more, and that this measure will cost France, and perhaps not very long hence, a war which will annihilate her on the ocean...
الصفحة 24 - This nation has done him justice by dismissing them ; that those in power are precisely those that disbelieved that story, and saw in it nothing but an attempt to deceive our country ; that we entertain towards him personally the most friendly dispositions ; that, as to the government of France, we know too little of the state of things there to understand what it is, and have no inclination to meddle in their settlement...
الصفحة 36 - In witness whereof, the said- parties have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
الصفحة 22 - DE NEMOURS. WASHINGTON, April 25, 1802. DEAR SIR, — The week being now closed, during which you had given me a hope of seeing you here, I think it safe to enclose you my letters for Paris, lest they should fail of the benefit of so desirable a conveyance. They are addressed to Kosciugha, Madame de Corny, Mrs.
الصفحة 24 - That it may yet be avoided is my sincere prayer; and if you can be the means of informing the wisdom of Bonaparte of all its consequences, you have deserved well of both countries.
الصفحة 305 - MANUFACTORY Wilmington, Delaware This new and extensive establishment is now in activity and any quantity of powder, equal if not superior to any manufactured in Europe, will be delivered at the shortest notice. Samples to be seen at V. DU PONT DE NEMOURS ET C ie New York At the suggestion of Du Pont pere, the plant on the Brandywine was named Eleutherian Mills, which might be translated "Mills of Liberty.
الصفحة 24 - America remain uninterrupted. There is another service you can render. I am told that Talleyrand is personally hostile to us. This, I suppose, has been occasioned by the XYZ history. But he should consider that that was the artifice of a party, willing to sacrifice him to the consolidation of their power. Thi1; nation has done him justice by dismissing them...
الصفحة 58 - Montserrat. — To all men unto whom these presents shall come: I Robert King, of the parish of St. Anthony in the said island, merchant, send greeting: Know ye, that I the aforesaid Robert King, for and in consideration of the sum of seventy pounds current money of the said...