Report of the Committee of the Senate of Massachusetts, Comprising the President's Message of the 1st of June, the Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, the Act Declaring War, the Proclamation of the President, Announcing that Event, and the Address of the Senate to the People of this CommonwealthAdams, Rhoades, & Company, printers, 1812 - 28 ページ |
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... allies , or any other country , with which Great Bri- tain might not freely trade . By this order the pretension of Eng- land , heretofore claimed by every other power , to prohibit neutrals disposing of parts of their cargoes at ...
... allies , or any other country , with which Great Bri- tain might not freely trade . By this order the pretension of Eng- land , heretofore claimed by every other power , to prohibit neutrals disposing of parts of their cargoes at ...
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... allies , British squadrons have been sta- tioned on our own coast , to watch and annoy our own trade . To give effect to the blockade of European ports , the ports and har- bors of the United States have been blockaded . In executing ...
... allies , British squadrons have been sta- tioned on our own coast , to watch and annoy our own trade . To give effect to the blockade of European ports , the ports and har- bors of the United States have been blockaded . In executing ...
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... allies , and six months from the date of the proclamation of May , 1806. Even on the 7th January , 1807 , the date of the first , British order in council , so short a term had elapsed after the Ber- lin decree , that it was hardly ...
... allies , and six months from the date of the proclamation of May , 1806. Even on the 7th January , 1807 , the date of the first , British order in council , so short a term had elapsed after the Ber- lin decree , that it was hardly ...
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... allies were confined within their own ports , the French decrees were considered only as empty threats . It is no justification of the wrongs of one power , that the like were committed by another ; nor ought the fact , if true , to ...
... allies were confined within their own ports , the French decrees were considered only as empty threats . It is no justification of the wrongs of one power , that the like were committed by another ; nor ought the fact , if true , to ...
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... allies , should be prohibited until Great Britain was also allowed to trade with them . By this declaration , it appears , that to satisfy the pretensions of the British government , the United States must join G. Britain in the war ...
... allies , should be prohibited until Great Britain was also allowed to trade with them . By this declaration , it appears , that to satisfy the pretensions of the British government , the United States must join G. Britain in the war ...
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adequate force aggressions allies American authorised belligerent right Britain Britain and Ireland British cabinet British cruisers British gov British government British nation British subjects calamities citizens claim committed committee Congress considered Constituted Authorities declared decree of Berlin degradation dependencies thereof dismemberment dominion edicts effect encroachments ENEMIES of REPUBLICS England ernment exists favour flag French government heretofore high seas honour impressment injured nations injuries injustice insult Ireland JAMES MADISON June JUNE 18 known law of nations lawless legal blockade measures ment merce Minister Plenipotentiary motives naval force negociation neutral nation neutral power neutral rights neutral trade ocean oppression orders in council outrages party plea ports President pretensions pretext prohibited proof repeal resort of injured restraints retaliation sanctioned savage seized Senate soil and industry solemn Sovereignty and Inde sufficient system of hostile territorial tion unexampled forbearance United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unlawful usurpations vessels viola violated violence warfare
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9 ページ - 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.
6 ページ - The practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them...
7 ページ - Not content with these occasional expedients for laying waste our neutral trade, the cabinet of...
12 ページ - ... 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...
10 ページ - ... edicts, or without success, in which case the United States would have been justified in turning their measures exclusively against France. The British Government would, however, neither rescind the blockade nor declare its nonexistence, nor permit its non-existence to be inferred and affirmed by the American plenipotentiary. On the contrary, by representing the blockade to be comprehended in the orders in council, the United States were compelled so to regard it in their subsequent proceedings.
12 ページ - ... re-establishment of peace and friendship, is 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.
6 ページ - British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace of our coasts. They hover over and harass our entering and departing commerce. To the most insulting pretensions they have added the most lawless proceedings in our very harbors, and have wantonly spilt American blood within the sanctuary of our territorial jurisdiction.
11 ページ - And it has since come into proof that at the very moment, when the public minister was holding the language of friendship, and inspiring confidence in the sincerity of the negotiation 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.
12 ページ - Our moderation and conciliation have had no other effect than to encourage perseverance, and to enlarge pretensions. We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence committed on the great and common highway of nations, even within sight of the country which owes them protection.
6 ページ - Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against herself, the United States have in vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations, and that no proof might be wanting of their conciliatory...