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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... equally inflexible , as if willing to make sacrifices of every sort , rather than yield to the claims of justice or renounce the errors of a false pride . Nay , so far were the attempts carried to overcome the attachment of the British ...
... equally inflexible , as if willing to make sacrifices of every sort , rather than yield to the claims of justice or renounce the errors of a false pride . Nay , so far were the attempts carried to overcome the attachment of the British ...
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... equally supporting a claim to regulate our external com- merce in all cases whatsoever . We behold , in fine , on the side of G. Britain , a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States a state of peace ...
... equally supporting a claim to regulate our external com- merce in all cases whatsoever . We behold , in fine , on the side of G. Britain , a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States a state of peace ...
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... equally unlawful impress- ment of our seamen , have been much aggravated by the insults and indignities attending them Under the pretext of blockading the harbors of France and her allies , British squadrons have been sta- tioned on our ...
... equally unlawful impress- ment of our seamen , have been much aggravated by the insults and indignities attending them Under the pretext of blockading the harbors of France and her allies , British squadrons have been sta- tioned on our ...
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... equally well known , that no American vessel had then been con- demned under it , or seizure been made , with which the British government was acquainted . The facts prove incontestibly , that the measures of France , however ...
... equally well known , that no American vessel had then been con- demned under it , or seizure been made , with which the British government was acquainted . The facts prove incontestibly , that the measures of France , however ...
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... Equally is it impossible to doubt , longer , the course which the United States ought to pursue towards Great Britain . From this view of the multiplied wrongs of the British government since the commencement of the present war , is ...
... Equally is it impossible to doubt , longer , the course which the United States ought to pursue towards Great Britain . From this view of the multiplied wrongs of the British government since the commencement of the present war , is ...
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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...