Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress], Том 21812 |
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... considers them so fair and reasonable , that he cannot but hope that they will be acceded to , and thus be the means of hastening an honorable and permanent peace . SIR , I have the honor , & c . ( Signed ) JOHN GRAHAM . Mr. Graham to ...
... considers them so fair and reasonable , that he cannot but hope that they will be acceded to , and thus be the means of hastening an honorable and permanent peace . SIR , I have the honor , & c . ( Signed ) JOHN GRAHAM . Mr. Graham to ...
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... consider himself at liberty to re- duce it to writing , even in the form of a note verbal , or pro mem- oria , or to suffer me to take a memorandum of his communica- tion at the time he made it . I understood from him , that the ...
... consider himself at liberty to re- duce it to writing , even in the form of a note verbal , or pro mem- oria , or to suffer me to take a memorandum of his communica- tion at the time he made it . I understood from him , that the ...
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... consider Mr. Foster as vested with the power of appointing a charge des affaires : but that no difficulty in point of form would be made , as any authentic communication through him , or any other channel , would be received with at ...
... consider Mr. Foster as vested with the power of appointing a charge des affaires : but that no difficulty in point of form would be made , as any authentic communication through him , or any other channel , would be received with at ...
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... consider the revocation of the orders in council as affording a fair occasion for the attainment of that object . After a pause of a few moments he added , that if the U. S. did not avail them- selves of this occasion , not only to put ...
... consider the revocation of the orders in council as affording a fair occasion for the attainment of that object . After a pause of a few moments he added , that if the U. S. did not avail them- selves of this occasion , not only to put ...
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... consider it under three aspects . Its absurdity - its inequality - its immorali- ty . In remarking on the absurdity of this principle , it is necessary to recur to that part of the message of the President of the U- nited States , at ...
... consider it under three aspects . Its absurdity - its inequality - its immorali- ty . In remarking on the absurdity of this principle , it is necessary to recur to that part of the message of the President of the U- nited States , at ...
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Страница 218 - Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Страница 243 - It is in vain to assert the inviolability of the obligation of allegiance. It is in vain to set up the plea of necessity, and to allege that she cannot exist without the impressment of HER seamen. The naked truth is, she comes, by her...
Страница 259 - ... people. Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life. A general prosperity is visible in the public countenance. The means employed by the British cabinet to undermine it have recoiled on themselves; have given to our national faculties a more rapid development, and, draining or diverting the precious metals from British circulation and British vaults, have poured them into those of the United States.
Страница 117 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Страница 259 - ... awaiting massacre from their savage associates. And now we find them, in further contempt of the modes of honorable warfare, supplying the place of a conquering force, by attempts to disorganize our political society, to dismember our confederated republic.
Страница 247 - Indian war would have been in a great measure prevented or terminated ; the ascendancy on lake Erie acquired, and the war pushed on perhaps to Montreal. With the exception of that event, the war, even upon the land, has been attended by a series of the most brilliant exploits...
Страница 247 - Pioria, on the Illinois, was completely successful. So was that of captain Craig, who, it is said, ascended that river still higher. General Hopkins destroyed the prophet's town. We have just received intelligence of the gallant enterprise of colonel Campbell. In short, sir, the Indian towns have been swept from the mouth to the source of the Wabash ; and a hostile country has been penetrated far beyond the most daring incursions of any campaign, during the former Indian war. Never was more cool,...
Страница 241 - So undeniable were the causes of the war, so powerfully did they address themselves to the feelings of the whole American people, that when the bill was pending before this house, gentlemen in the opposition, although provoked to debate, would not, or could not, utter one syllable against it. It is true...
Страница 160 - An act to provide for mitigating or remitting forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and made perpetual by an act passed the eleventh...
Страница 259 - To render the justice of the war on our part the more conspicuous, the reluctance to commence it was followed by the earliest and strongest manifestations of a disposition to arrest its progress. The sword was scarcely out of the scabbard before the enemy was apprised of the reasonable terms on which it would be resheathed.