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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... tion , the social habits and the personal characteristics of gifted and distinguished men . It is pleasant to witness the playful efforts of a great mind : and no one can regard with indifference the most ordinary details connected with ...
... tion , the social habits and the personal characteristics of gifted and distinguished men . It is pleasant to witness the playful efforts of a great mind : and no one can regard with indifference the most ordinary details connected with ...
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... tion . - Peacock by Hornet . - Bainbridge . - Decatur . - Hull . - Capture of Chesa- peake by Shannon . - Lawrence . - His Challenge of La Bonne Citoyenne .-- Lieu- tenant Cox . - His Court Martial . - Salutary National Effects of the ...
... tion . - Peacock by Hornet . - Bainbridge . - Decatur . - Hull . - Capture of Chesa- peake by Shannon . - Lawrence . - His Challenge of La Bonne Citoyenne .-- Lieu- tenant Cox . - His Court Martial . - Salutary National Effects of the ...
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... tion , the war of 1812 was inevitable and defensive ; put off longer before extorted from intolerable wrongs ; undertaken for vindica- tion , not aggrandizement , although Canadian conquest was to be one of its means . The cause was as ...
... tion , the war of 1812 was inevitable and defensive ; put off longer before extorted from intolerable wrongs ; undertaken for vindica- tion , not aggrandizement , although Canadian conquest was to be one of its means . The cause was as ...
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... tion ; as near the truth as cotemporary statement may come ; truer than the fictions of posterior history . Without regal or revolutionary annals , European magnitude of events and charac- ters to describe , but the plain ...
... tion ; as near the truth as cotemporary statement may come ; truer than the fictions of posterior history . Without regal or revolutionary annals , European magnitude of events and charac- ters to describe , but the plain ...
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... tion for further examination ; and that a belligerent had a right to exclude American vessels from ports and places , under the blockade of an adequate naval force . These rights the law of nations might , reasonably , be deemed to ...
... tion for further examination ; and that a belligerent had a right to exclude American vessels from ports and places , under the blockade of an adequate naval force . These rights the law of nations might , reasonably , be deemed to ...
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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...