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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... these circumftances I am inftructed by my government to urge to that of the United States , the injuftice of thus enforcing that act against his majefty's dominions ; and I cannot but hope that a fpirit of juftice will induce the United ...
... these circumftances I am inftructed by my government to urge to that of the United States , the injuftice of thus enforcing that act against his majefty's dominions ; and I cannot but hope that a fpirit of juftice will induce the United ...
Side 47
... these views of the sudject that the Committee did not hesitate to give it as their opinion that we ought to go to war in opposition to the Orders in Council . But as to the extent of the war and the time when it should be commenced ...
... these views of the sudject that the Committee did not hesitate to give it as their opinion that we ought to go to war in opposition to the Orders in Council . But as to the extent of the war and the time when it should be commenced ...
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... these resolutions , or any others similar to them in object , should pass , it was then the intention of the com- mittee , as soon as the forces contemplated to be raised should be in any tolerable state of preparation , to recommend ...
... these resolutions , or any others similar to them in object , should pass , it was then the intention of the com- mittee , as soon as the forces contemplated to be raised should be in any tolerable state of preparation , to recommend ...
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... these additional troops were wanted . The house ought not to com- mit itself on a question of such magnitude , without detailed informa- tion . He was as much opposed to raising standing armies now , as he had been in the reign of ...
... these additional troops were wanted . The house ought not to com- mit itself on a question of such magnitude , without detailed informa- tion . He was as much opposed to raising standing armies now , as he had been in the reign of ...
Side 53
... these considerations , weighty in themselves , your com- mittee felt themselves constrained to decide , influenced by existing circumstances of a character too imperious to be resisted - These I will enumerate before I sit down . My ...
... these considerations , weighty in themselves , your com- mittee felt themselves constrained to decide , influenced by existing circumstances of a character too imperious to be resisted - These I will enumerate before I sit down . My ...
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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...