Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, During the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14, & 15: With Some Additional Letters and Documents Elucidating the History of that PeriodWay & Gideon, 1823 - 510페이지 |
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... hope , and the act has since become subservient to other purposes . It has been made by his successors a pretext for that vast system of usurpation , which has so long oppressed and harrassed our commerce . The next act of the British ...
... hope , and the act has since become subservient to other purposes . It has been made by his successors a pretext for that vast system of usurpation , which has so long oppressed and harrassed our commerce . The next act of the British ...
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... hope , that , yielding to the force of friendly remonstrances , often repeated , the British government might adopt a more just policy towards them ; but that hope no longer exists . They have also weighed impartially the reasons which ...
... hope , that , yielding to the force of friendly remonstrances , often repeated , the British government might adopt a more just policy towards them ; but that hope no longer exists . They have also weighed impartially the reasons which ...
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... reduced , nor do they fear it . That they ever consented to discuss with either power the misconduct of the other , is a proof of their love of peace , of their moderation , and of the hope which they still indulged 22.
... reduced , nor do they fear it . That they ever consented to discuss with either power the misconduct of the other , is a proof of their love of peace , of their moderation , and of the hope which they still indulged 22.
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... hope which they still indulged , that friendly appeals to just and generous sentiments would not be made to them in vain . But the motive was mistaken , if their forbearance was imputed , either to the want of a just sensibility to ...
... hope which they still indulged , that friendly appeals to just and generous sentiments would not be made to them in vain . But the motive was mistaken , if their forbearance was imputed , either to the want of a just sensibility to ...
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... hope , sir , that my demands and pro- tests will meet the approbation of my government . I cannot allow this opportunity to escape without expressing my obligation to doctor Day for the service he rendered me in conducting this ...
... hope , sir , that my demands and pro- tests will meet the approbation of my government . I cannot allow this opportunity to escape without expressing my obligation to doctor Day for the service he rendered me in conducting this ...
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510 페이지 - And, in the event of the said two commissioners differing, or both, or either of them, refusing, declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state, shall be made, in all respects, as in the latter part of the fourth article i» 506 contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated.
508 페이지 - The said Commissioners shall by a declaration or report under their hands and seals decide to which of the two Contracting Parties the several Islands aforesaid do respectively belong in conformity with the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three.
510 페이지 - Woods; — to decide to which of the two Parties the several Islands lying in the Lakes, water communications, and Rivers forming the said boundary do respectively belong in conformity with the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and to cause such parts of the said boundary as require it to be surveyed and marked.
510 페이지 - Cataraguy, has not yet been surveyed; it is agreed, that for these several purposes, two commissioners shall be appointed, sworn, and authorized, to act exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the next preceding article, unless otherwise specified in the present article.
508 페이지 - Commissioners refusing or declining or wilfully omitting to act as such, they shall make jointly or separately a report or reports as well to the Government of His Britannic Majesty as to that of the United States, stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they or either of them have so refused declined or omitted to act. And His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States...
9 페이지 - 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.
9 페이지 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
10 페이지 - 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; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking...
14 페이지 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States; and on the side of the United- States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.