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" Curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the Government. "
History of the Life and Times of James Madison - Page 408
by William Cabell Rives - 1868
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 5

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 664 pages
...embarrass" his Commercial resolutions, "was doubted ; " but he was clear, one of the objects was, that "of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the Government ; " — that " the ostensible reason for the provisional army was absurd."—" We contend," he wrote,...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 5

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 632 pages
...embarrass " his Commercial resolutions, " was doubted ; " but he was clear, one of the objects was, that " of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the Government ; " — that " the ostensible reason for the provisional army was absurd." — " We contend," he wrote,...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 5

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 630 pages
...embarrass " his Commercial resolutions, " was doubted ; " but he was clear, one of the objects was, that "of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the Government ; " — that " the ostensible reason for the provisional army was absurd." — " We contend," he wrote,...
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A History of Political Parties in the United States in Three Volumes, Volume 1

John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1895 - 524 pages
...with England, Madison was sure that Hamilton was his prompter, and that one of his objects was that of " turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government." When after three years of patient endurance of the lawless resistance to the collection of the excise...
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Political History of the United States: With Special Reference to ..., Volume 1

John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1895 - 526 pages
...with England, Madison was sure that Hamilton was his prompter, and that one of his objects was that of "turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government." When after three years of patient endurance of the lawless resistance to the collection of the excise...
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A History of Political Parties in the United States: Volume I-, Volume 1

John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1900 - 634 pages
...Hamilton was Sedgwick's prompter, and that one of the objects of the Secretary of the Treasury was that of " turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government." When, in 1794, after three years of patient endurance of the lawless resistance to the collection of...
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Political History of the United States: With Special Reference to ..., Volume 2

John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1903 - 616 pages
...days. Madison wrote to Jefferson that Sedgwick's motion was prompted by Hamilton, and that it was only the " old trick of turning every contingency into...resource for accumulating force in the government." It must be admitted that the private letters of some leading Federalists convey the impression that they...
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Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on American Union

Frederick Scott Oliver - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 540 pages
...to Britain.2 They defeated the Army Bill. They accused Hamilton, possibly with a grain of truth, ' of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.' 8 In private they admitted that war was probable* but in Congress they pretended that Britain could...
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Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Volume 4

Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
...p. 226. Madison wrote to Jefferson that Hamilton had prompted Sedgwick's motion and that it was only the " old trick of turning every contingency into...resource for accumulating force in the government." 182 EMBARGO AND NON-INTERCOURSE. preclude any other that might be proposed. That it probably neverwas...
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Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on American Union

Frederick Scott Oliver - Statesmen - 1920 - 598 pages
...to Britain.* They defeated the Army Bill. They accused Hamilton, possibly with a grain of truth, ' of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.'1 In private they admitted that war was probable,4 but in Congress they pretended that...
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