Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain: Events of 1812-13Lea and Blanchard, 1845 |
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Charles Jared Ingersoll. " It cannot fail to be regarded by all persons at all familiar with public men and public events , as among the most interesting works of a most interesting class . The formal records of history are far less ...
Charles Jared Ingersoll. " It cannot fail to be regarded by all persons at all familiar with public men and public events , as among the most interesting works of a most interesting class . The formal records of history are far less ...
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... persons in the mili- tary service of the enemy were discovered , a belligerent had a right of transhipment and removal ; that a belligerent had a right , in doubtful cases , to carry American vessels to a convenient sta- tion for ...
... persons in the mili- tary service of the enemy were discovered , a belligerent had a right of transhipment and removal ; that a belligerent had a right , in doubtful cases , to carry American vessels to a convenient sta- tion for ...
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... persons except citizens of the United States ; and that no foreigner should be admitted to become a citizen hereafter , who had not , for the con- tinued term of five years , resided within the United States , with- out being , at any ...
... persons except citizens of the United States ; and that no foreigner should be admitted to become a citizen hereafter , who had not , for the con- tinued term of five years , resided within the United States , with- out being , at any ...
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... person , should , upon the high seas , and without the jurisdiction of either party , be demanded or taken out of any ship or vessel , belonging to the citizens or subjects of one of the par- ties , by the public or private armed ships ...
... person , should , upon the high seas , and without the jurisdiction of either party , be demanded or taken out of any ship or vessel , belonging to the citizens or subjects of one of the par- ties , by the public or private armed ships ...
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... persons , property , and rights . ' And on the ensuing 1st of August , it was emphatically declared to him , ' that it had become necessary that he should not lose sight of the in- structions of the 24th of June , as any pledge beyond ...
... persons , property , and rights . ' And on the ensuing 1st of August , it was emphatically declared to him , ' that it had become necessary that he should not lose sight of the in- structions of the 24th of June , as any pledge beyond ...
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Página 438 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 437 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 493 - Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Página 378 - And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Página 50 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Página 494 - I rejoice that the period of your toils and of your immense sacrifices is approaching. I rejoice that the interesting revolutionary movements of so many years have issued in the formation of a constitution designed to give permanency to the great object for which you have contended. I rejoice that liberty, which you have so long embraced with enthusiasm...
Página 438 - When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of...
Página 355 - The Creek nation being reduced to extreme want, and not at present having the means of subsistence, the United States, from motives of humanity, will continue to furnish gratuitously the necessaries of life, until the crops of corn can be considered competent to yield the nation a supply,, and will establish...