The Congressional Reporter1811 Containing, a list of members of the Twelfth Congress, the President's message, the public documents, and the debates on all interesting questions agitated. |
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Side 49
... army , & c . and carried . The second resolution , which is in these words --- That an addition- al force of ten thousand regular troops ought to be immediately raised , to serve three years ; and that a bounty in lands ought to be ...
... army , & c . and carried . The second resolution , which is in these words --- That an addition- al force of ten thousand regular troops ought to be immediately raised , to serve three years ; and that a bounty in lands ought to be ...
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... army now in the service of the United States was maintained in the very teeth of that part of the constitution which declares that no money for the support of a standing army should be appropriated for more than two years . He again ...
... army now in the service of the United States was maintained in the very teeth of that part of the constitution which declares that no money for the support of a standing army should be appropriated for more than two years . He again ...
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... army , that highest of all possible trusts in any government , be the form what they may , was reposed in the bo- som of the father of his country ! -the sanctuary of a nation's love- the only hope that never came in vain : when other ...
... army , that highest of all possible trusts in any government , be the form what they may , was reposed in the bo- som of the father of his country ! -the sanctuary of a nation's love- the only hope that never came in vain : when other ...
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... army , unless we were disposed to abandon all the country south of Tennessee : that if " the protection of our citizens and the spirit and the honor of our country required that force should be in- terposed , " nothing remained but for ...
... army , unless we were disposed to abandon all the country south of Tennessee : that if " the protection of our citizens and the spirit and the honor of our country required that force should be in- terposed , " nothing remained but for ...
Side 75
... army , for great it must be to accomplish the proposed object , for a war of conquest and ambition - and this , too , at the very en- trance of the " Northern Hive " of the strongest part of the Union . An insinuation had fallen from ...
... army , for great it must be to accomplish the proposed object , for a war of conquest and ambition - and this , too , at the very en- trance of the " Northern Hive " of the strongest part of the Union . An insinuation had fallen from ...
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Side 561 - Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander.
Side 228 - ... but also from one place belonging to an enemy to another place belonging to an enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction of one power or under several.
Side 565 - British cabinet, would not, for the sake of a precarious and surreptitious intercourse with hostile markets, have persevered in a course of measures, which necessarily put at hazard the invaluable .market of a great and growing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual advantages of an active commerce. Other councils have prevailed. Our moderation and conciliation have had no other effect than to encourage perseverance and to enlarge pretensions.
Side 565 - ... with which he was charged a secret agent of his Government was employed in intrigues having for their object a subversion of our Government and a dismemberment of our happy union. In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain toward the United States our attention is necessarily drawn to the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers...
Side 278 - Congress above mentioned and an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States and the several acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed.
Side 566 - ... a solemn question which the Constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the Government. In recommending it to their early deliberations I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
Side 278 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," that "in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Side 78 - Will you seek for the deep foundations of her power in the frozen deserts of Labrador? " Her march is on the mountain wave. Her home is on the deep.
Side 566 - Government against the property of our citizens seized within the jurisdiction of France. I abstain at this time from recommending to the consideration of Congress definitive measures with respect to that nation, in the expectation that the result of unclosed discussions between our minister plenipotentiary at Paris and the French Government will speedily enable Congress to decide with greater advantage on the course due to the rights, the interests, and the honor of our country.
Side 565 - ... savages, on one of our extensive frontiers ; a warfare, which is known to spare neither age nor sex, and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity. It is difficult to account for the activity and combinations which have for some time been developing themselves among tribes in constant intercourse with British traders and garrisons, without connecting their hostility with that influence, and without recollecting the authenticated examples of such interpositions, heretofore...