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... enemy to hostilities against us , nity . If he could not give it himself , he might the British Minister's choler rose ; he denied the either intentionally or unintentionally lead a whole . He avails himself of suggestions in pub ...
... enemy to hostilities against us , nity . If he could not give it himself , he might the British Minister's choler rose ; he denied the either intentionally or unintentionally lead a whole . He avails himself of suggestions in pub ...
Página 1235
... enemy's port . That , on the 3d of February , the Commodore put on board of the Thames the captains and crews of the vessels burnt , being thirty - seven in number , to be landed in the first port , and that , on the 16th day of July ...
... enemy's port . That , on the 3d of February , the Commodore put on board of the Thames the captains and crews of the vessels burnt , being thirty - seven in number , to be landed in the first port , and that , on the 16th day of July ...
Página 1287
... enemy : when thousands of your sailors shall become the prisoners , or shall be forced to engage in the naval service of England , will you not repent the policy which prohibited their re- turn to their country ? In a contest with the ...
... enemy : when thousands of your sailors shall become the prisoners , or shall be forced to engage in the naval service of England , will you not repent the policy which prohibited their re- turn to their country ? In a contest with the ...
Página 1289
... enemy , against whom the resentment of our citizens would be directed , than that one should be confiscated by our own laws . But , while I make this avowal of an opinion , which , I fear , differs from that of a majority of the House ...
... enemy , against whom the resentment of our citizens would be directed , than that one should be confiscated by our own laws . But , while I make this avowal of an opinion , which , I fear , differs from that of a majority of the House ...
Página 1293
... enemy at the commencement of an arduous war with that enemy . On the verge of a war with one nation and in a state which is certainly equivocal , to say no more , with another , we must look with apprehension at the power of both ; and ...
... enemy at the commencement of an arduous war with that enemy . On the verge of a war with one nation and in a state which is certainly equivocal , to say no more , with another , we must look with apprehension at the power of both ; and ...
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Página 1629 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Página 1787 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Página 1715 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Página 1625 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Página 1353 - An Act to establish an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of War...
Página 1627 - Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country, and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert.
Página 1713 - British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects, in such cases, be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right...
Página 1201 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 1625 - ... vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong ; and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign which falls within the definition of war.
Página 1629 - ... them protection. We behold our vessels freighted with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets...