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Side 1187
... means enviable , not generally esteemed most honorable , with a view to reward . He points out specifically the nature of the reward he expected . It was in the power of a Government , at once the most corrupt and most wealthy perhaps ...
... means enviable , not generally esteemed most honorable , with a view to reward . He points out specifically the nature of the reward he expected . It was in the power of a Government , at once the most corrupt and most wealthy perhaps ...
Side 1189
... means of effecting this , is by fomenting di - indivisibility of the Empire . And , what was the visions among us ; angering one party against the object of Great Britain ? For what did she em- other , and thereby dividing the Union . I ...
... means of effecting this , is by fomenting di - indivisibility of the Empire . And , what was the visions among us ; angering one party against the object of Great Britain ? For what did she em- other , and thereby dividing the Union . I ...
Side 1205
... means to repel invasion . You effect another object , said Mr. C. There is not any the offered amendment . On these three points , then , the amendment ought to be rejected : first , that it goes to shake the solidity of the title ; sec ...
... means to repel invasion . You effect another object , said Mr. C. There is not any the offered amendment . On these three points , then , the amendment ought to be rejected : first , that it goes to shake the solidity of the title ; sec ...
Side 1251
... Means , upon leave given , reported a bill , author- izing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the payment of certain bills drawn by John Árm- strong , late Minister of the United States at the APRIL , 1812 . Court of France , upon ...
... Means , upon leave given , reported a bill , author- izing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the payment of certain bills drawn by John Árm- strong , late Minister of the United States at the APRIL , 1812 . Court of France , upon ...
Side 1259
... mean to say that we have the power to inquire , and that we have no power to do anything else ? Does the gentleman ... means necessary to discover whether he has been guilty of misbeha- viour or not ? The person who is the subject of ...
... mean to say that we have the power to inquire , and that we have no power to do anything else ? Does the gentleman ... means necessary to discover whether he has been guilty of misbeha- viour or not ? The person who is the subject of ...
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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 1353 - An Act to establish an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of War...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...