 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1850 - 648 pages
...of Spain. I require this caution on good grounds. HAMILTON TO MCHENRY. NEW- YORK, June 27th, 1799. It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...the chief is too desultory, his ministry ought to be the more united and steady, and well-settled in some reasonable system of measures. Among other things,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 852 pages
...Spain. I require this caution on good grounds. HAMILTON TO ITHENRY. • NEW-YORK, June 27th, 1799. It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...the chief is too desultory, his ministry ought to be the more united and steady, and well-settled in some reasonable system of measures. Among other things,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...intent upon the acquisition of the Floridas and Louisiana, with an onward view to South America. " It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...without delay. If the chief is too desultory, his ministers ought to be the more united and steady, and well settled in some reasonable system of measures.... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 966 pages
...intent upon the acquisition of the Floridas and Louisiana, with an onward view to South America. " It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...without delay. If the chief is too desultory, his ministers ought to be the more united and steady, and well settled in some reasonable system of measures.... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1865 - 974 pages
...intent upon the acquisition of the Floridas and Louisiana, with an onward view to South America. " It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...administration have no general plan. Certainly there ought to he one formed without delay. If the chief is too desultory, his ministers ought to be the more united... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 978 pages
...intent upon the acquisition of the Floridas and Louisiana, with an onward view to South America. " It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...without delay. If the chief is too desultory, his ministers ought to be the more united and steady, and well settled in some reasonable system of measures.... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1906 - 368 pages
...formed. " It is a pity, my dear sir," he wrote to McHenry, " and a reproach, that the administration has no general plan. Certainly there ought to be one formed...without delay. If the chief is too desultory, his ministers ought to be more united and steady." His own policy, he added, would be to maintain a regular... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1906 - 358 pages
...formed. " It is a pity, my dear sir," he wrote to McHenry, " and a reproach, that the administration has no general plan. Certainly there ought to be one formed...without delay. If the chief is too desultory, his ministers ought to be more united and steady." His own policy, he added, would be to maintain a regular... | |
 | Bernard Christian Steiner - 1907 - 674 pages
...among your Eastward friends, a due sense of the propriety" of action. At this time, Hamilton wrote: 2 "It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach that our...Certainly, there ought to be one formed without delay." Among other things it should be agreed what precise forces should be created, land and naval, and this... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - Imperialism - 1915 - 378 pages
...reserve for a future communication. June 27, 1799, he wrote McHenry, Secretary of War, as follows: It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our...the chief is too desultory, his ministry ought to be the more united and steady, and well-settled in some reasonable system of measures. Among other things,... | |
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It is a pity, my dear sir, and a reproach, that our administration have no general plan. Certainly there ought to be one formed without delay. 
