Protection and waging War against us. — He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. — He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation... The United States Government Manual - Page 21989Full view - About this book
| William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, arid totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - America - 1804 - 432 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled to the most barbarous dgts, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He. has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear anus against thejr country, lo become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bean arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...cruelty and perfidity, scarcely parallelled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the heart of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1819 - 324 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most harbarous ages, ani I totally unworthy t:ie head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow...insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the in ,ubitiuti of our tronuers, the merciless Indian savages, whuse Krfo.vn rule of warfare is an undistinguished... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...saved him. The fact is referred to in that paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which says, ' He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken, captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. • He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear anas against heir country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Illinois - Law - 1823 - 252 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unwortby the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against theii; country, to become the executionera,'of their ' 30 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY:... | |
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