 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1899 - 470 ページ
...cement of interest to bind all parts of the Union together by indissoluble bonds;" "the Western States stand, as it were, upon a pivot — the touch of a feather would turn them any way." ' On the 1st of March, 1784, the very day that Virginia completed her cession,... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 ページ
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards, very impolitically... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 654 ページ
...west of us, with the Middle States. . . . The Western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi until the Spaniards, very impolitically... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1901 - 504 ページ
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The western settlers (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi till the Spaniards, very impoliticly... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - 1902 - 384 ページ
...rather than an assurance of safety. Washington had not long before this said : " The Western States stand, as it were, upon a pivot — the touch of a feather would turn them any way " — and he had advised the applying of " the cement of interest to bind all... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1902 - 414 ページ
...English again by the highway of the lakes and the St. Lawrence. "The western settlers," he declared, "stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way." lie returned home to push again with renewed vigor the project which for... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - 1902 - 382 ページ
...rather than an assurance of safety. Washington had not long before this said : " The Western States stand, as it were, upon a pivot — the touch of a feather would turn them any way "—and he had advised the applying of " the cement of interest to bind all... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1903 - 868 ページ
...country from them. " The Western States," he wrote to Governor Harrison of Virginia on October 10, 1784, "stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them anyway." If the trade of the interior was to flow through the Great Lakes to the St.... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1903 - 228 ページ
...opinion, the gift of prophesy to foretell. The Western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi until the Spaniards, very impolitically,... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1904 - 702 ページ
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. "The western states (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards, very impolitically... | |
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The western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. 
