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Pessimism over Public Affairs
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Collection
Pierpont Morgan Library: American Autographs
Document Information
Date
July 14, 1797
Author Name
William Vans Murray
(primary)
Location:
Philadelphia
Recipient Name
James McHenry
(primary)
Summary
Letter, discusses foreign affairs; discusses French military.
Document Format
Autograph Letter Signed
Document Notes
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Content Notes
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Related Persons/Groups
James McHenry
;
William Vans Murray
;
Callier
;
Wolcott
;
Louisa Johnson
;
McHenry
;
Van Scappurt
;
Mountflorence
;
Adams
;
Maj. Rutledge
;
Hory
;
Lord Malmsbury
;
Daucain
;
Hocke
;
Anthony Davenport
;
Ferguson
;
Henderson
;
Gibson
;
Rutgers
;
Ogden
;
Wm. Coffer
;
CaptWilliams
;
Girard
;
Gen. Smith
;
Sitgreaves
;
Marshall
;
Judge Dana
;
Bonaparte
;
Friali
;
Pinckney
;
;
Related Places
Philadelphia
;
Holland
;
Philadelphia
;
London
;
Elbe
;
Hanover
;
Prussia
;
Portugal
;
Rome
;
Asia
;
Africa
;
Rotterdam
;
Newberry
;
New York
;
Bordeaux
;
N.P, Rhode Island [New Port]
;
Charlestown, S.C. [South Carolina]
;
Mineral Springs
;
Boston
;
House of Salomons, Amsterdam
;
Spain
;
Batavia
;
Belgium
;
North of Italy
;
Italian States
;
Venice
;
America
;
West Indies
;
West Indian Islands
;
England
;
Europe
;
France
;
U.S. [United States]
;
G.B. [Great Brtiain]
;
Paris
;
;
Keywords
distinguished order of Carlos
;
windows were rotten
;
roof
;
prevent its absolute decay
;
tenement
;
subject of sale
;
Secretary of State
;
American Hotel
;
lodgings
;
cession
;
squadron
;
sailors in an engagement
;
efficient men employ'd to work the business
;
republics
;
monarchies
;
vast change in human affairs is not far distant
;
authority is stripped of its weight by reasoning skepticism
;
ignorance & superstition
;
dispersion of books
;
real & wholesome knowledge
;
morals
;
convulsions or habitual strokes of that violence
;
men of speculation are lost in the magnitude of that crisis
;
christian religion
;
tide of insubordination
;
various directions of self
;
new Theory of republicanism
;
king
;
prince
;
duke
;
constitution
;
indians
;
royalists
;
party hatred
;
dutch fleet
;
british ships at anchor
;
secret
;
diplomatic corps
;
Jacobianical Philosophers
;
clerks, servants
;
defend & protect her conquered or influenced allies
;
what the real philanthropists imagined
;
civil liberty
;
greater portion of civil liberty to Europe will tend even more than the Feudal System to enslave mankind
;
military despotism
;
Feudal times
;
troops to join in her meditated attack
;
conquest
;
subjugation
;
Roman Republic
;
Roman maxims
;
corruptions & lavishments of Europe
;
values of Roman alliance
;
Role D'Equipage
;
bricking part of the crew
;
bribery
;
scheme to distract
;
attachment in some general dread of their power
;
tyranny
;
law of Nations
;
Rome-like dominion, but a species of universal police and armed
;
military spirit
;
force all independent governments to be more or less military in their character
;
Catherine
;
Boisies
;
L'Orient
;
Romulus
;
Commissary of the Navy
;
discretionary power
;
vessels captured
;
exhibiting lists of captures
;
American traitors
;
vessels from our ports
;
French ports
;
Dutch ports
;
list of contraband
;
pretence
;
cursed note takers spoil everything
;
sacrifice of our domestic honor
;
existing engagements
;
the dispute on this side will assume the air of wounded sensibility
;
expect a flood of sentiment to heal the wound
;
concessions that thwart our true sovereignty
;
principle of Neutral Justice
;
corps of generals
;
pitched battle
;
skillful in the use of argument
;
fed
;
clothed & elegantly clad
;
generously & excessively paid
;
secret bonuses
;
expence of the unhappy country
;
million sterling is daily paying
;
ransom
;
mode & article of life
;
hypocrisy of France
;
Tyger has ravaged the the liberties & wealth of every nation that has been fool enough to trust
;
monarchy
;
republic
;
moderates or Jacobians
;
unequal contact of friendship or confidence
;
independence wil fall
;
terrible consequence of admitting them into confidence
;
permitting their approach
;
rock of right
;
united language of support
;
President
;
vindication
;
assertion
;
good lawyer
;
sister on her marriage
;
ducats
;
command
;
militia
;
maintain the French army
;
ships of the line
;
Hordes of St. Marc's order during a time of neutrality to the senate
;
original senate
;
maintenance of an army
;
plundered the pockets
;
quartered & shipped about from town to town
;
small bodies of men
;
plundered of immense value in silver, gold and jewels
;
sold to the emperor
;
aggrandisement
;
government under the nation impotent
;
crowned head
;
interests
;
Venetian dalmation
;
new commission
;
break your treaty or dissolve the Union
;
war or the abandonmentof British treaty
;
proposal
;
absolute evil
;
sovereignty over us
;
succeeds amply in her diabolical scheme
;
maritime possessions
;
act of grace
;
ground of war
;
true policy
;
show so handsome a conduct
;
rival in our opinions at the peace
;
present state of things being friendly
;
negociation ofhearts consider us as proper for ally'd dependents & under eternal obligatioins to them
;
great mass of people
;
peace
;
vicinity of the islands
;
helpless state
;
manifested some marks of esteem
;
undefined injuries
;
Treaty
;
owed our national existence
;
through the passions of such men who would do right
;
no language of concession is held by congress
;
indignation
;
parade
;
friendly intercourse
;
during the revolution & since
;
defeat
;
directory
;
public get an ungarbled edition
;
line of conduct which a profound wd dictate to the directory
;
accustomed vigilance
;
sent a copy (manuscript)
;
cordial to me
;
evinced a friendship of which I never doubted & consoled my jaded mind
;
prospect of better opinions in my own country
;
better state of public affairs
;
speech
;
kindness of the bankers who always get intelligence very early
;
views of these exceedingly money loving politicians
;
private wealth
;
conveyance of ministers and dispatches
;
;
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