 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...Union together by indissoluble bonds. 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 threw difficulties... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1893 - 826 pages
..."The Western settlers," he wrote to the governor of Virginia, shortly after the Revolutionary War, " 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 impoliticly,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - Books - 1894 - 462 pages
...won. Writing to Benjamin Harrison in 1784, Washington declared his belief that "The Western States stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way." Jefferson saw the same thing, when he informed Madison, in 1787 : " When... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 616 pages
...the union together by indissoluble bonds. 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 threw difficulties... | |
 | John Nelson Davidson - Indians of North America - 1895 - 334 pages
...power to apply to it. Sae McMaster's account of the Marietta colony. ern states," Washington wrote, " stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them either way." The English had not yet given up the Western posts.1 Against them as well... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 476 pages
...only tie we can have upon them." "The western settlers," he declared, while still fresh from the Ohio, "stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way " — down the Mississippi to join their interests with those of the Spaniard,... | |
 | American Historical Association - Historiography - 1897 - 1328 pages
...in a letter to Governor Harrison, of Virginia, October 10, 1784, by saying that " the Western States stand, as it were, upon a pivot; " * * " "the touch of a feather would turn them either way." He had lands of his own in the Western territory, and knew beyond most,... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1897 - 1328 pages
...in a letter to Goveruor Harrison, of Virginia, October 10, 1784, by sayiug that "the Western States stand, as it were, upon a pivot;" * * * '•the touch of a feather would turn them either way." He had lands of his own in the Western territory, and knew l>eyond most,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
